A hearty congratulations to Brian Crane, whose feature Pickles turns 20 years old tomorrow. Brian attributes the longevity of Pickles to “dumb luck and clean living, I guess. It’s all been kind of a wonderful mystery to me. I never had a master plan, or anything like that. My only real goal was to do […]
Earlier this week the Daytona Beach News-Journal laid of 10% of their workforce including editorial cartoonist Bruce Beattie. Bruce has been with the paper since 1981 and is currently syndicate through Creators. In 1986 he launched a panel feature called SNAFU which later became Beattie Blvd. The strip ran for 11 years and was a […]
Kieran Meehan serves up another gem in Pros and Cons. What I particularly like about this strip is the combination of convicts who are utterly convinced of the logic of their arguments with the utterly deadpan response of the lawyer. Any sign of dismay would kill this joke on the spot.
Robert Wright interviews Tom Toles in a Bloggingheads episode:For just the past week, Toles has added a blog-like commentary to his cartoons:He talks about the past and future of political cartoons. (They’re dead or could last forever.) There’s an interesting revelation about the origin of the tiny commentary part at the bottom of the cartoons. […]
With the upcoming new season of Boondocks, USAToday reports Aaron McGruder has launched an “official unofficial” site.McGruder has been good about keeping us posted via Twitter, and now he has launched an “official unofficial” Boondocks site at http://www.boondocksbootleg.com. Here, you can find screen shots from the new season, video clips and behind-the-scenes stuff, as well […]
There is a saying in cartooning that good writing can save bad art but that good art won’t save bad writing. Not an issue for Keith Knight, who has a rare talent for combining hilarious art with solid observational humor. This gag simply would not work if (A) the expressions on the baby weren’t so […]
I don’t see ads like this anymore. The commute might be a strain, but I thought I’d pass it along anyway. 🙂 A leading newspaper publishing company with its head office in lagos has vacancies for the following position in its Concept Unit. 1. EDITORIAL CARTOONIST Candidates should posses: a) Creative ability with striking draughtsmanship […]
Rob Tornoe interviews Omaha World-Herald cartoonist Jeff Koterba who will have two of his cartoons traveling to the International Space Station on April 5. How did your cartoon end up on one of NASA’s final space shuttle flights? Clayton Anderson, the only Nebraska-born astronaut, will be flying on the upcoming shuttle flight Discovery. I first […]
Rick Stromoski is celebrating 10 years in syndication with his comic strip Soup to Nutz. Soup to Nutz features a family that is a far cry from the Cleavers, the Waltons or the Bradys. But you’ll undoubtedly recognize them anyway. Most likely, they’re a lot like the family you grew up in … where the […]
Norm Feuti’s “Retail” is one of the mysteries of the newspaper industry — a funny strip about working at the mall, a theme that taps right into the desirable 18-to-24 age group with the attitude that makes movies like “Office Space” and “Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle” instant classics. And yet it hasn’t […]
DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon took the number one spot over the weekend in the box office with $43.3 million. I’ve heard mostly good reviews. I hope to take the kids sometime soon. If you saw it over the weekend, please post your review below.
News from Mikhaela Reid, who announced on her blog that she’s hanging up the pen and ink – at least in the alt-editorial cartooning market.The political cartooning market sucks (and I suck at marketing.) This is really no secret. I started out in 2002 with one paying client, the Boston Phoenix. Over the years I […]
There is a small kerfuffle going on in the comics world because Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur is up for a National Cartoonists Society Award for “Best Comic Strip,” and some people think it should only be eligible for “Best Panel.” Actually, it’s sometimes a panel and sometimes a strip, and Wiley entered some panels in […]
(I wrote this profile of Frazz cartoonist Jef Mallett in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY)”Frazz is who I would be, if I were about 100 times cooler,” Jef Mallett admits.The parallel is purely intentional. Like the cartoon janitor of his school-based comic strip, Mallett is a lifelong learner who has always preferred […]
As it happens, March has been an oddity in this part of the world. We managed to duck the worst of the spring storms with only one day-long power outage, but everyone remains braced for that final blast of branch-busting winter snow, and will likely remain that way until either the storm hits or May, […]