Apparently the earlier cover featuring Obama and Palin was so good they felt they needed to do it again. Archie Comics will announce on Tuesday variant covers on the Obama-Palin theme, with one cover showing Obama poised to clash with Palin in midair, while another ? labeled “The Fight for America!” ? depicting Obama and […]

Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com editorial cartoonist and founder of Cagle Cartoons, has posted his advise to any editorial cartoonist that wants to do better marketing him/herself. Here is his first piece of advice: THINK OF WHAT EDITORS WANT There is a self-important attitude that editorial cartoonists develop, thinking of themselves as serious journalists who draw about […]

I’ve been hoping that Matt Bors would pull his Afghanistan cartoons into one place where you could leaf through them in order, but the best I can do is point you to his blog, where they are mixed in with some other things, but there nonetheless.It’s worth the scrolling, because, while Bors is often highly […]

Tom Racine has posted his 100th Tall Tale Radio podcast. Featured interview includes Michael Cavna and “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” winner Olivia Walch. Tom has also introduced a bi-monthly news segment where he and I banter about the comic headlines.Happy 100, Tom!

Universal Uclick has confirmed that several papers (upwards of 20) have asked for a replacement for this Sunday’s Non Sequitur because it mentions the word “Muhammad.” The cartoon by Wiley Miller depicts a lazy, sunny park scene with the caption, “Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher… ‘Where’s Muhammad?’” Characters in […]

Universal Uclick has put together a small tribute video to Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy. Check it out on the GoComics.com blog. Cathy Guisewite brings 34 years of Cathy to a close on October 3rd. To celebrate the historic success of Cathy (the strip and the cartoonist), we’ve put together a tribute video, featuring some of the […]

At first glance, today’s F Minus was amusing, but then I started thinking, well, wait a minute, where DID seconds come from? I know about dividing time into years, which took a few tries to get right, and about months, which would make more sense if they were completely lunar, but got caught up in […]

This trailer makes me less excited to see it than the first.More Yogi Bear Videos

Headline pretty much says it all. Every Andrews McMeel Universal employees to receive an original Cathy comic.As Bill Amend noted, “Incredibly generous.”

The Purdue University’s student newspaper, The Exponent, has issue an apology for running a cartoon that many viewed as promoting rape. The comic feature, Sex Position of the Week, depicted a male character (all in silhouette) having sex with a female (from the rear), then allowing another male to also engage in the position without […]

The Bradenton Herald has published a different Cathy is ending after 34 years – they went out and interviewed Cathy Guisewite’s parents Ann and William – and as you might suspect, they’re fans of the strip.From the Bradenton Herald: “I’m thrilled that she finally decided to give it up,” her father says. “That was a […]

The fear of greater censorship or self-censorship when it comes to issues related to Islam has been a contention for many free-speech advocates. Perhaps those sounding that alarm have one more case to cite. Nathan F. Elmore, a pastor and director of the Holy Books Conversation, a Christian-Muslim interfaith friendship venture in Virginia is calling […]

Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anawar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, has been released under police bail. He was freed from the Sepang police station several hours after police obtained a one-day remand extension order Saturday. Sepang police chief Supt Zahedi Ayub confirmed the 6.30pm release. The remand extension was earlier granted by the Sepang magistrate’s court […]

 xkcd is the kind of strip where I’m perfectly willing to believe they did the research for this, though I’m a little surprised that “Kafkaesque” isn’t more frequently modified, since it’s a favorite adjective of people who have read little, if any, Kafka, and tends to be thrown around about as indiscriminately as either of […]

When I read that Facebook had gone down last week, I thought, “Maybe some places, but not here.” I thought maybe it had been accidentally been blocked on some influential browser or something. There was certainly no interruption of service that I had noticed.Then I realized when it went down, which just happened to be […]