To commemorate the second volume of the Bloom County Complete Library being released, USA Today is running select strips with commentary from Berkeley Breathed this week. The commentary today is about the eighties and Star Trek references. Q. In Ted Koppel’s intro to Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 2, he writes, “I never believed […]

Speaking of original Peanuts artwork, a Phoenix woman took her stash of original Peanuts art that she’s been buying up since 1950 to the “Antique Roadshow” hoping that they’d appraise enough help she and her husband retire. She estimated her collection was worth about $50,000, but the appraiser on the television show said that her […]

A great catch from Mike Lynch (who credit’s his dad, Dr. Lynch) for this letter to the editor in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette from Jean Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz warning that not all the original drawings being auctioned off are authentic. Sally Kalson’s April 11 article (“From Peanuts to Picasso: Art Collection Is […]

I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .

I could probably feature “Cul de Sac” three times a week, but today’s is particularly special: Alice brings up a topic, Petey responds to it and Alice actually responds to what he said instead of simply continuing her eternal, external monologue. It is a rarity to be remarked upon.(With some Googling, I could probably find […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore has told ComputerWorld that he has resubmitted his rejected iPhone app to Apple for reconsideration. Mark’s app was rejected last December. Since winning the Pulitzer last week and the rejection hit the blogosphere, Apple invited him to resubmit. According to ComputerWorld, a customer wrote to Steve Jobs himself pleading the […]

Twice this week, spammer were able to exploit the site to inject code into the blog. I’m still trying to ascertain the full scope of what they were able to do. At the moment, it appears limited to inserting code into a file that is read by search engines and sends search engine traffic to […]

(This is a profile of “Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell that I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) To begin with, the rotary dial telephone doesn’t really work.But it’s not entirely out of place, there in the background of the picture,along with the analog clock. The candle, admittedly, is a bit of […]

I’m not going to champion cartoons that you have to be 60 years old to get, except when they crack me up, as was the case with “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” this morning. Anyway, I’m pretty sure John Hambrock isn’t old enough to have many memories of “Beat the Clock.”Although, if he is […]

Mark Fiore is worthy of a Pulitzer, but last December Apple wouldn’t allow Mark’s iPhone app into the App Store because it “contains content that ridicules public figures.” According to By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries’ blog on Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked Mark to resubmit his app. But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday […]

Looks to me like Heart of the City is about to feature a Mrs. Angelini story. I don’t remember the last time we had one of these, but they’re always worthwhile, as Heart takes a break from her adventures with Dean and her housekeeper provides a flashback story about earlier days.I don’t get to read […]

Mark Fiore wasn’t the only cartoonist that took home a Pulitzer Prize this week. Matt Richtel, who pens the Rudy Park comic strip under the name Theron Heir took home a Pulitzer Prize this week for the New York Times for a series of articles on distracted driving. From the NY Times: The series generated […]

 Dave Whamond’s Reality Check is probably up to six weeks of hibernation by now; The panel turned 15 at the beginning of the month. And sometime next month, he’ll find out if he won the National Cartoonist Society’s award for Best Gag Cartoon.None of which is why I chose this panel today. It just cracked […]

In typical Simpson fashion.

Nathan Cooper’s In the Sticks is going political. As of Monday, the golf themed strip edges right politically.From the press release: Beginning with the April 12 strip, In the Sticks will dispatch a daily dose of humor from the Blooming Dogleg Country Club colored by a conservative political perspective. The first politically themed strips, as […]