The President emerged from his living quarters yesterday, as soon as Fox & Friends was over, to address the nation, and the “emerging from the light” angle was a different setting than the usual “walk down the long hallway” venue, which late night comedians quickly noted, just as they noted that he opened by saying […]
“All this happened, more or less.”Publishers Weekly is reporting:Indie graphic novel house Boom! Studios announced plans to publish a graphic version of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, to be adapted into a graphic novel by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zaplana. The book will be released in September 2020. […]
Dear Leader is set to address the nation this morning, but, since Fox and Friends is still on for the better part of an hour as I write this, Darrin Bell’s explanation will have to do in the meantime.And it may continue to be the most clear and concise version, though the Washington Post reports:Vice […]
The current issue of Charlie Hebdo is a special about The New Censors. (Google translation) AlterNet looks at French humor on the fifth anniversary of the horrible terror attack:Before 2015, about 40,000 people read Charlie Hebdo each week. Given that many hundreds of thousands declared “je suis Charlie”, most were clearly not regular readers. “Je suis […]
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and will hit theaters early next month.https://youtu.be/4loOtFz–J0Today Disney released the official trailer (above).Here The Oregonian previews the movie, shot on location in Portland, Oregon.
Newspaper comics readers might notice something different in their papers when browsing the funnies. The space where Jill Kaplan, a Jewish mother and wife living in Ohio with her family, experienced everyday life but with a humorous, modern twist in “The Pajama Diaries” for about 14 years will be replaced with panels of another adventure. […]
THE spoof magazine, MAD itself, got spoofed by Madison Magazine.From Madison Magazine:We’ve gone MAD! Don’t think we haven’t heard the whispering behind our backs from people who don’t take our monthly publication as seriously as we do: “Madison Magazine? More like MAD magazine!” Well, to those folks we say: Your wish has been granted! In […]
On occasion an old comic strip, which can be linked to current world events, will go viral. Also on occasion the comic is fake. Real or Unreal? Such is the the question regarding a recent, low-res Calvin and Hobbes strip that has flooded the internet.Snopes has confirmed that it is an actual Calvin and Hobbes […]
I remember reading some swashbuckler in which, at the very start, the roughnecks who wielded broadswords were complaining about Frenchmen who fought with light foils, which they felt were not manly in that they didn’t deal death in great, slashing blows but with small, sneaky thrusts.It must have been Rafael Sabatini, because Dumas was himself […]
Former editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert and his wife Cheryl are struggling with a rare and incurable form of dementia.After a long road of prayer, testing, misdiagnosing, and questions, Jerry was finally diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2019 – a rare form of dementia where portions of the brain shrink (atrophy) leading to devastating personality and […]
A disaster half a world away has lead Patrick McDonnell to replace a week of Mutts. above: from The Art of Nothing by Patrick McDonnellReed Brennan Customer Service notification:The strips were replaced at artist’s request for Mutts dallies for the week of January 20, 2020. The original week had a lighthearted theme where Mooch meets […]
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis)“Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles at the humorless politicos who decried anyone who dared to have fun while a war was going on.This three-way Juxtaposition sums up my current mood: I share Mo’s despair, but I agree with Kate that there is a limit to […]
Commenters on the Little Oop site seem upset about the school being buildings rather than caves, though the school has been depicted that way from the beginning of the Little Oop comic series.Also – sometime (recently?) GoComics has extended the Alley Oop archive well into the past. It now includes, among other old strips, the […]
With no salaried editorial cartoonists in the state of Texas, the larger newspapers rely on freelancers for cartoons about local issues.John Branch is interviewed by the Houston Chronicle.Though most of the cartoons you see in the Opinion section come through national syndication, Houston-based cartoonist John Branch is a regular contributor on Sundays. Op-Ed Editor Raj […]
The Lawton (Oklahoma) Constitution adds Dustin to its lineup today. (I’m guessing to fill the space made by the retiring Pajama Diaries.)Dustin creators Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker talked to the paper about its new addition.When [Steve Kelley] approached his friend and fellow editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker about teaming up on a comic strip, he […]