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Killed Cartoons book killed cartoons

Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, writes about some irony regarding the newly published “Killed Cartoons” in which the publisher killed a 2002 cartoon by Doug Marlette depicting a jihadist driving a Ryder retnal truck with a nuclear bomb in the back with a caption that read: What Would Mohammad Drive? From her column: Editors and […]

Garfield hugger gets 90-day suspended sentence

Some belated news out of Indiana regarding the man who beheaded a Garfield statue with a “crazed hug (see back stories here, here and here.)” Joseph Savarino, age 23, was sentenced 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service and pay $200 in restitution for his role in the decapitation of […]

AAEC presidential campaign exhibit gets refocused

AAEC President Rob Rogers has scrapped the presidential campaign exhibit idea for this year’s 50th anniversary of the AAEC during their Washington D.C. convention. Instead, the exhibit will focus on the current presidential administration. Like Bill Clinton, I may have tried to do too much in my first 100 days as president (Ok, to be […]

Peanuts used as model for visual language pattern study

Neil Cohn is a psychology student at Tufts University researching about visual language patterns and grammar. His current project is studying comics and as he says, “hopefully, by summer I should be testing peoples intutions on the grammar of these strips, and eventually looking at their brainwaves while processing them (fun!).” [sic].Part of his research […]

Second annual “Science Idol” contest now open

Tom Toles, Garry Trudeau, Dave Coverly have been tapped to judge the second annual “Science Idol” cartoon contest to draw humorous attention to political interference in science. The winner of the contest receives a 3-day trip to Washington D.C. and a lunch with Tom.From the press release: All artists, amateur or professional, are welcome to […]

Marshall Rogers passes at age 57

The LA Times is reporting that Marshall Rogers, best know of his work on the Batman comic book, passed away suddenly on Sunday at the age of 57. During his career he worked on other characters such as Silver Surfer, Mister Miracle, Dr. Strange, Iron Fist and G.I. Joe. He was the artist for a […]

Comic cross-overs abound this week

Character cross-overs aren’t too unusual, but there seemed to be a spike in the number this week. In Sunday’s Lio, Mark Tatulli featured a dysfunctional For Better or For Worse family as hot-headed and short-tempered. Mark also brought in the Charlie Brown and Lucy for a gag yesterday. Stephan Pastis used Bucky from Get Fuzzy […]

Mutts takes the The Times slot

Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts has won a slot in The Times (Gainesville, AL) beating out Brian Crane’s Pickles narrowly with only 54 percent of the vote. While the paper has declared the winner in the “Comics March Madness” competition, it also concedes that there are more changes slated this summer.

Little Orphan Annie classic collection planned

For those who love the classic comics, IDW’s announcement that they are going to print a hard-bound collection of Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie is going to be good news. Perhaps even better, they’re going to start with the strips that appeared in the mid-1930s so as not to overlap the collection that Fantagraphics has […]

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