A recent paper in presented to the American Sociological Association suggests that female characters in the largest (most read) comic strips in America treat women characters more as props than leading characters. Conclusions in the report are based on studying Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, Hagar, Garfield and Dilbert for one full year. An analysis […]
A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out that Paul Sabourin was matching Kanye West’s tweets to New Yorker Cartoons. Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo is taking it one step further and drawing original cartoons of other people’s Twitter tweets.
ArcaMax Publishing news and entertainment provider by email, has added five new comic strips to its Funnies page: Dilbert, Luann, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and 9 Chickweed Lane. Each strip is available for free with an email subscription and featured in the Funnies section at ArcaMax.com. The five strips are syndicated and distributed by […]
Last week’s Penny Arcade has upset several readers. The comic used the phrase, “every night we are raped to sleep by dickwolves” in the build-up of a joke (not about rape) but the its reference was enough for some in the blogosphere to point out their outrage. Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was a recent panelist at Mocca on the topic of “The Future Of The Traditional Comic Strip In An Era Of Dying Newspapers.” She’s posted seven reasons she believes comics are not dead yet. Her first two reasons: 1. Print syndication of comic strips to newspapers is still a business. […]
Some symbols are so standard that they can lose impact, but Tony Auth makes excellent use of both the Statue of Liberty and the Klan regalia in this cartoon. I’m not as blown away by his labels — I think it was an unnecessary complication to tie in the GOP and the Tea Party Movement […]
ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode interviewed Daddy’s Home co-creator Tony Rubino for the Washington City Paper about his career in comics. WCP: Who are your influences? TR: Cartoon-wise, the usual suspects: Larson, Watterson, Schultz, Hart & Parker. And also, Callahan (RIP), Groening, who I first saw in the Washington City Paper long before The Simpsons when […]
Peanuts Worldwide, the newly formed joint venture between Iconix Brand Group (Nasdaq: ICON) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates today announced that it has signed a new five year deal with ABC Network for the popular PEANUTS animated holiday specials. The beloved Emmy Award winning specials, including the iconic “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “A Charlie […]
Do you suppose this is why the Rolling Stones released a singles version of “Honky Tonk Women” that didn’t involve a car horn?First time I heard the album version, it was playing on my car stereo at about 5 in the afternoon on the Cross Westchester Expressway. The album version is called “Country Honk” and […]
Michael Cavna catches up with Cathy creator Cathy Guisewhite to talk about why she’s retiring and how the syndicate took the news. MC: So when did you seriously begin to contemplate retirement of the strip? Was this long in the works, or a fairly recent decision? CG: I think it was really within the last […]
Last week the State Department issued a travel warning telling Americans not to go to Afghanistan stating: No part of Afghanistan should be considered immune from violence, and the potential exists throughout the country for hostile acts, either targeted or random, against American and other Western nationals at any time. Remnants of the former Taliban […]
There are a couple of notable cartoonists who at one time or another have drawn cartoons for and about the Mormons here in Utah. There’s Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune, Cal Grondahl at the Standard Examiner and Val Bagley (no relation to Pat) who has made a permanent mark doing Mormon cartoons for […]
Part of the Omaha World-Herald 125th year commemoration, editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba writes about his work in the paper and about his daily process. I start my day by reading the Omaha World-Herald and other newspapers. I also check other sources — TV, radio — but it really takes a newspaper’s content to give me […]
Starting today, Comics.com is featuring the new comic by Guy Gilchrist called Today’s Dogg. Guy launched the strip earlier this spring as an online feature and has since placed it in The Houston County Courier. He also uses the strip to raise money and awareness for grassroots humane services.
I’ve been waiting for the right moment to feature “Pirate Cove” here, and it’s been a long wait, because the convoluted storylines of this strip don’t offer a lot of good entry points. Yes, the artwork is horrible. You’ll get used to it. You’ll even start to like it. But let’s skip the artwork for […]