This Loose Parts gag wouldn’t work if the bears were in the water helping him catch fish, or showing him how to do it better. Although there are other internship experiences that could be translated into different gags — like him coming out of the woods with a roll of toilet paper saying, “Okay, I’m […]
The Sun Sentinel’s Chan Lowe was honored in two of this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ South Florida chapter categories. Chan won first place in the editorial cartooning category and second place in the blogging category for affiliated blogs. Regarding his cartooning, the judges wrote, “Chan’s cartoons were like a seasoned prize fighter. They hit […]
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs during the All Things Digital D8 Conference. A live blog transcript published on Engadget caused a stir when within the transcript it was unclear whether Jobs had called Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore a liar and trying to get his 15 minutes of fame […]
Insipred by the Marmaduke’s jump to the big screen, last week we entertained which comic strips we would like to see make the jump. The Vancouver Sun went one step further and assigned Hollywood actors they see best playing in a Calvin and Hobbes, Hagar The Horrible, Dilbert, The Far Side, Andy Capp, or Archie. […]
Foxnews is reporting that famed Danish Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is retiring. Westergaard says he hopes his retirement might help “lower the terror threat” against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper where he has been working for the past 27 years.
It’s All About You creator Tony Murphy has started a Kickstart project to raise $5,500 to launch a weekly comic-strip broadsheet titled Coffee Talk that will be available in coffee shops and cafes. In his project introduction, Tony writes, I’m a daily syndicated cartoonist. Unfortunately, newspapers are dying, and while my strip It’s All About […]
Comic historian R.C. Harvey writes about the history of the National Cartoonists Society. Probably, the club would never have coagulated itself into being without the reluctant sponsorship of Rube Goldberg, who, in addition to giving his name to an entry in the dictionary, was the master of ceremonies for the performances in hospitals and, as […]
Interesting to see some familiar faces 22 years ago.
My laughter over today’s Cleats may be a more personal reaction than on most days. I just finished an article on “The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson,” which was held last week by waterparks around the world to promote water safety. One of the things I learned was that the vast majority of features at a […]
Tony Dipreta who drew Joe Palooka and Rex Morgan, M.D. died last week at the age of 88. Eventually, DiPreta made his way to New York City, where he met legendary comic book writer and editor Stan Lee, who gave him “Porky Pig” to ink. From 1945 to 1955, DiPreta also worked on the popular […]
A simple joke, but Mike Luckovich is good at assembling parts to create “simple” jokes.I was curious to hear how the people blaming Obama would have handled the spill differently, given that the permits for this elaborate project were, no doubt, negotiated well over a year ago and that, no, the Coast Guard doesn’t have […]
(This profile of Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, is one in a series I wrote in 1993 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) They say “Write what you know.”With Jan Eliot, it’s “Cartoon what you know.” Jan Eliot knows all about stone soup.As a comic strip, “Stone Soup” is Eliot’s popular feature about […]
Michael Cavna interviewed Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten about the upcoming launch of his new strip Barney & Clyde (drawn by David Clark). MC: So what was the genesis of “Barney & Clyde” — how did you come to sire this strip”? And speaking of siring: Can you tell us exactly how this brainchild […]
Pakistan has re-opened access to Facebook, but only after Facebook assured the Pakistani government that the offending material has been removed. “In response to our protest, Facebook has tendered their apology and informed us that all the sacrilegious material has been removed from the URL,” said Najibullah Malik, secretary of Pakistan’s information technology ministry, referring […]
A couple of weeks ago, I reported that Julie Larson, creator of The Dinette Set, had signed with United Features Syndicate only after a few months of leaving Creators Syndicate to try self-syndication. I asked her why she’d return to a syndicate when she seemed so set on taking on the do-it-yourself route. Her response: […]