Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked yesterday at Sweden’s Uppsala University while giving a lecture to a classroom of 250 people on the topic of the limits of free speech. CNN international edition reports that soon after the lecture began five individuals started to protest, but were calmed by security. As Vilks continued into his […]
Today’s Baby Blues struck me as funny because, see, when I was a kid, I had this friend whose mother tried to knit him a sweater. I forget his name. He moved away. But that’s why I laughed at this cartoon. Because of him.(In truth, my mother knitted me a sweater just a few years […]
Interesting piece in next month’s The Atlantic on efforts by Google to save high-quality journalism. Publishers would be overjoyed to stop buying newsprint-if the new readers they are gaining for their online editions were worth as much to advertisers as the previous ones they are losing in print. Here is a crucial part of the […]
Iron Man 2 took in a weekend total of $133.6 million to become the fifth most top grossing film sequel. The other top sequels include The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, Twilight Saga: New Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Interestingly, it was $5 million less than the the studio’s estimates.An open thread […]
The 17 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists who condemned the alleged threats against South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker after their 200th episode aired depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit can add one more cartoonist to their ranks: Pat Oliphant.The full statement:“We, the undersigned, condemn the recent threats against the creators […]
More details have been posted regarding The Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” contest. The Post is asking for comic strip aspirants to sumbit six original unpublished strips by June 4th. Ten finalists will be selectedd by a panel of professional cartoonists that include Garry Trudeau, Stephan Pastis, Jerry Scott, Hilary Price, Richard Thompson, Tom […]
The New York Times is reporting that Frank Frazetta has passed away at the age of 82. Frank was best known for his “fantastic worlds of musclebound heroes fighting with broad swords and battle axes to defend helpless women from horrible beasts.” He also worked as an assistant to Al Capp doing Lil’ Abner and […]
Madam & Eve is so often based on South African politics that it’s a bit like xkcd in that you chuckle over the ones you get and shrug off the ones you don’t.However, with the World Cup being hosted there a mere month from now, I have a feeling the strip is about to go […]
Senator Al Franken, a former comedian and comedy writer (painfully) uses a cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Tole to argue support for his bill.
Starting May 10, the Washington Post’s “Comic Riffs” will begin what the blog’s author Michael Cavna calls “a better way” to aid aspiring cartoonists.Sharpen your pencils, sharpen your comic minds — and check back here in this space come Monday, May 10.UPDATE: I asked Mr. Cavna if he could elaborate at all on the nature […]
An article on Foxnews.com reports the chilling effect the South Park threats and the New York Times bombing attempt have had on the topic of Islam in the media. In the current, supercharged climate, it just isn’t worth endangering the safety of an entire production staff or network by pursuing a storyline that Muslim extremists […]
Congrats to Seth, Michael DeForge and Marc Bell. Press release:Canada’s finest comics and graphic novels were celebrated last night as the 6th annual Doug Wright Awards touched down in Toronto?s Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in a ceremony hosted by ReGenesis actor Peter Outerbridge. This year?s top honours included:BEST BOOK: George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth […]
Last January Webcomics.com went behind a paywall to much the surprise to many of us. Fleen.com’s Gary Tyrell looks back to see how the site has changed. That fourth graf is where I got it especially wrong ? I was reading WDC as an informational resource and nothing more; what?s become clear is that Brad?s […]
Dynamite Entertainment, under license from King Features syndicate, returns The Phantom to comic books this August with Alex Ross at the creative helm, Scott Beatty scripting and Eduardo Ferigato on art in the ongoing series.The series begins with no Phantom. The historic line stops at Kit Walker the 21st, who has forsaken the mantle of […]
A man dressed as Snoopy was arrested while trying to free an inmate in Britain. Thesun.co.uk reported on Monday that jail workers were stunned when confronted by the Peanuts character waving a gun. When the man dressed as Snoopy and an accomplice failed to break down a door, they pelted prison officers’ cars with concrete […]