From NYPost: According to a person familiar with the matter, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple’s […]
Caught by Comics Riff:MacFarlane, speaking in a Reuters Television interview, said the Arizona law was more shocking than his own irreverent, hot-button shows. His animated comedies “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “The Cleveland Show” all air on Fox.“It’s too much. It’s kind of a slap in the face, it’s not the way to handle it. […]
Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove and one of the Six Chix, has launched a tri-weekly webcomic entitled, “Velia, Dear.” The comic launched today and is about a young woman named Velia who leaves the inner city to take care of her aging Italian mother.Regarding the new strip (and why she’s launching a web comic) […]
The New York Daily News is reporting suspicions that the weekend bombing attempt at New York Times is tied to threats against South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Police hunting the man who parked a crude but powerful car bomb in Times Square Saturday night are looking into a possible link to a […]
Jen Sorensen has a decided mean streak, and a willingness to play to a faithful, rather than mass, audience, which makes her weekly strip Slowpoke more incisive than most political/social observation cartoons. What I like about her work is that there are other cartoonists, on both sides of the aisle*, who are capable of becoming […]
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker: Who could have guessed that the clash of civilizations would be fought by cartoon characters? Couldn’t say it better myself.
I’m a huge fan of Patrick McDonnell’s art but must confess that I’m not blown away by Mutts itself as often as I’d like to be. As he noted in the profile that ran here recently, Mutts is a quiet place in a noisy world and maybe I just like a little more noise in […]
This is a profile I did of Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls NY.(Editor’s note: I’ve decided to move the profiles from Sunday to Saturday because I realized that the format issues of Sunday funnies were less daunting than the task of finding a good, compelling Saturday […]
Tom Richmond was tasked with the responsibility of drawing the NCS Reuben weekend art that is used on the official T-shirt, grab bag, etc. This year’s drawing is posted. See if you can identify all 16 of the speakers and honorees.
Just noticed the early organization of a new movement inside the Tea Party movement called Replace This Face March. Looks like some capitalist activity taking advantage of the Tea rage, but anyway… the goal is to get two or three million Americans (party affiliation agnostic) all wearing the same t-shirt on October 16 for “the […]
For those planning to participate in “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day”, Ruben Bolling has some sage advice for you.
Andrew McGinn and David Neitzke have published their first graphic novel, “The Legacy – a Graphic Novel.” For those who are sensitive to critique of the American newspaper comic strip, this book probably best be avoided. John Hogan over at Graphic Novel Reporter describes it as, “about a young man named Chas who inherits a […]
Time Magazine has listed Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik as one of their top 100 most influential people. The comic is published three times a week and boasts 3.5 million readers. Lev Grossman writes for Time: For a lot of people, that would have been enough. But in 2003, Krahulik and Holkins, […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist and blogger Jay Bookman provides us with a funny story about how on the day that Georgia House Speaker David Ralston was to be the guest speaker at a dinner to honor Mike Luckovich, Mike’s cartoon that morning depicted the speaker as a stripper. Ralston admitted later to being a bit […]
“Frog in a Suit” stands to be the first offering in what Joe Murray (creator of “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “Camp Lazlo“) hopes will be a new all-cartoon web channel, Kaboing TV. In an effort to stay as “independent as possible” Murray is utilizing Kickstarter.com to fund the production of the inaugural episodes, a sample of […]