Perhaps a bit too soon to know if there will be a dust-up, but Robert Ariail posted a cartoon on his website last Tuesday depicting South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley wearing a burqa. The first frame reads, ?Nikki Haley: What She Promises.? The picture shows Haley dressed as a beauty queen with the […]
Never mind Dilbert. Sally Forth knows how the business world functions today and writer Francesco Marciuliano has managed to make the characters in the strip human enough that they behave believably. For the past who-knows-how-long, Sally has been trying to persuade the slackers in her department that the company is facing hard decisions, all their […]
A good read from Ted Dawson as he questions the limits of protection, respect, and moral responsibility of copyright. While many countries still permit Work for Hire, which removes a writer or artist’s authorship, other countries enforce what they call Moral Rights. Moral rights protect the creator’s right of attribution to and integrity of her […]
I must be getting lazy this summer. Its been a while since I plugged the latest guests on the Tall Tale Radio podcast. In case you missed it, Tom Racine interviewed Lalo Alcaraz, creator of La Cucaracha, and Adam Huber, creator of the webcomic Bug. I started following Bug a mont or so ago and […]
The LA Times writes how “Hollywood-ized” the San Diego Comic-Con has become. They didn’t care how acclaimed the director, how bright the star, if you didn’t measure up to their very high bar, they would flay you. When the Hollywood power brokers started showing up in the ’90s, the hardcore fans who had been making […]
ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode writes about the recent release of comic-related stamps by the Post Office and how this isn’t a new trend. Check out his column in the Washington City Paper and take the quiz – when was the first instance of a comic on a U.S. stamp? The U.S. Postal Service has just […]
It seems this is the week for cartooning about Annoying Broadcast Practices, and La Cucaracha picks up on a very strange thing, the return of “Dialing for Dollars” without the dollars.Back at the dawn of time, or, at least, in the 1960s and 70s, back when TV stations did more local programming than just the […]
ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode posts the press release from the Library of Congress and points out three cartoonist will be part of the 10th annual National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress. Jeff Smith, Brad Meltzer and Jules Feiffer will among 70 authors on hand for the event on Sep. 25, 2010. Full details […]
Worth noting. The News-Press (Fort Myers, FL) editorial cartoonist Doug MacGregor donated his kidney to a friend five years ago so his friend could live to see his kids graduate from high school. First child graduated a few weeks ago. “It was a proud moment,” Doug said. “One of the greatest days for parents is […]
The Mainichi Daily News reports that Kimihiko Tsukuda, the creator of the longest-running serialized comic strip in Japanese newspapers, has passed away at the age of 80. His comic strip Honobono-kun, dubbed the “Japanese Charlie Brown,” first appeared in newspapers in 1956 and ran through 2007 after Kimihiko fell ill.
Remember the story line that had Peter Parker returning to a bachelor as if he had never married Mary Jane? The scenario in the comic book was mirrored in the comic strip (though the newspaper version brought Peter out of a dream five months later). Next week’s Spider-Man comic book picks up and reveals that […]
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has noted the recent fatwa issued against artist Molly Norris. Drawing or creating any likeness of the prophet, you may also recall, is against the rules among certain fundamentalists, though not all Muslims agree that such a prohibition exists. But even if it did, there would be no reason for […]
Not sure where Speed Bump’s Dave Coverly lives, but one of the oddities of life in rural America is radio stations and cable services that serve wide, wide areas. That means you can be annoyed by repeated automated Weather Service alerts for places that are nowhere near you. They need an interactive “I know. Stop […]
Only Doonesbury could say “Remember back when you were handling spin for Chairman Mao?” and actually have the reader remember back when Honey was handling spin for Chairman Mao. And, specifically, to have at least a few readers remember back to May 9, 1976, when, in one of Trudeau’s classic strips, she was spinning the […]
(Note: This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)In an earlier “At the Drawing board,” we called Jerry Scott “the cartoonist who never gets to draw.” That would make his partner, Jim Borgman, “the cartoonist who never gets to write.” Together, they’re the […]