Clay Bennett

It’s a good year for retrospectives. Due out this November is Bill Amend’s The Best of FoxTrot – a near 300 pages of the best strips from the last 20 years.Available for pre-order at Amazon.Correction: As pointed out in the comments by Bill Amend, the collection is a two book collection – each at 280 […]

Michael Cavna catches up to Mark Fiore while Mark was in D.C. for the Cartoons and Cocktails event. Michael talk to Mark about how the Pulitzer has changed his life. MC: You’ve had roughly a half-year to see the wonders of a Pulitzer win transform your life. So: How has it transformed your life — […]

Media Bistro is reporting that the L.A. Times has dropped Home and Away and Brewser Rocket and used the space for more advertising. The LAT Reader?s Representative put a positive spin on things, letting readers know that the Newspaper?s website now features an assortment of comics previously only available in the print edition. So if […]

  I really don’t intentionally follow each major rant here by running a silly cartoon the next day, though perhaps my mind instinctively seeks one out as part of its recovery-from-deep-thoughts process. Still, Rhymes With Orange has been shown to be an effective source of silliness that can be of significant value when used as […]

MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones is celebrating 50 years of cartooning. To commemorate he has a new book out entitled “MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works.” Sammy Perlmutter, writing on the Huffington Post has posted an interview with the famed cartoonist about the new book. What’s your working process like? […]

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis was a featured guest on NPR’s On Point this morning (9:00 a.m. CST). Scott will talk about political humor and if it’s possible that a conservative just might be funny.There’s a couple of ways to listen to it. There is a show archive of streaming audio or you can […]

Chip Kidd of Rolling Stone Magazine has interviewed Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau to mark the 40th anniversary of the strip. Rolling Stone has also posted 10 Doonesbury strips picked by Garry as his favorites. It also includes Garry’s narrative as to why he selected that cartoon. A selection of the interview: How did Doonesbury come […]

Matt Davies gets it right. A very small opening, offering a very small view of a large and messy place.Sherman told a graduating class of young soldiers “War is Hell,” and while there is confusion over exactly how he phrased it, the architect of the theory of total war was no fan of the medium […]

I’m in a quandary. The 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective has been steeply discounted on Amazon ($58.50 compared to $100 normally). I like to buy the complete collections when they come out. I enjoy reading them all in one sitting rather than in the newspaper and I have to wait until the next day to get […]

The Lorax, the book by Dr. Seuss, is being made into a 3D movie featuring Danny DeVito voicing The Lorax according to USA Today. “Danny has this wonderful ability to be acerbic and grouchy but at the same time absolutely lovable,” Meledandri says. “It’s almost like Walter Matthau had. His comedic edge was very sharp, […]

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Washington D.C. based illustrator Nick Galifianakis has an exhibit of his work opening tomorrow night and runs through Nov 14. Nick, who provides cartoons for the Carolyn Hax advice column in the Washington Post, also has a new book due out entitled, “If You Loved Me, You’d Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About […]

Slate has posted what they view as the 200 Greatest Moments of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of G.B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, Slate and Doonesbury.com invite you to enter the feature’s 14,600-strip archive and wander to your heart’s content. For the next two weeks this vast labyrinth of storytelling and interconnected lives, […]

New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum has passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 68. The New York Times’ obituary notes that for most of his career, Leo was a TWA pilot but he will be remembered for his cartoons – some 819 of them. The magazine rejected his early submissions but bought some […]