Patrons of Davenport’s Putnam Museum & Science Center are invited to view fantastically ridiculous machines, and dream up some of their own, in the venue’s Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention!, the new traveling exhibition that opens on September 28 and showcases the legendary Rube Goldberg’s iconic contraptions, imaginative illustrations, and humorous storytelling. Created […]
In a prime example of “no good deed goes unpunished,” fans of both cartoonist Scott Adams and newsman Jake Tapper have accused the men of near treasonous behavior.Scott and Jake have united to produce a week of daily comic strips for a worthy cause. But some, by no means all, view the joint mission with […]
Posting early because I’ve got a 6 am flight at an airport 90 minutes away and that may be the funniest thing you see all day, but if you have a more sensible way to get to Columbus this weekend, please join me at AAEC/CXC.Onward, summing up a week where Homer was nodding all over […]
I hate to discuss this in relation to a man but … Alison Bechdel has joined Rube Goldberg as a cartoonist whose name is now a word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.“Bechdel Test” is one of over 500 new words added to the M-W dictionary in September 2019.Hat tip to Seven Days for the notice.Thanks to Tribeca […]
Cartoonist Lynda Barry is among those awarded a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship.Commonly called a Genius Grant, “The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.” The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the University of Wisconsin-Madison proudly boasts it is home to two of this year’s MacArthur […]
Marshall Ramsey captures the moment, and I suppose I should have headlined today’s posting “And Away We Go!” to match his caption, but I remember a standup on Short Attention Span Theater talking about working at an amusement park and how maddening it was after just a few days to hear people say “Here we […]
Susan Gerbic: [Rex Morgan, M.D.] was created by Dr. Nicholas Dallis and has been in print for over seventy years. I believe you became involved as the artist in 2013 and took over the writing as well in 2016. Beatty: Yes, I had been drawing the Sunday adventures of The Phantom for King Features for […]
It’s not the skill of the drawing, or the lines, or the lettering, or the funny words that make a strip work. Timing is the life force of comics. Without a sensitivity to the rhythms and the music—a.k.a. the reality—of life, a comic strip will arrive D.O.A., nothing more than a bunch of dumb pictures. […]
If you are headed to the AAEC Convention/CXC Festival be sure to pick up this limited edition, soon-to-be-collectors’-item book available only there this weekend.As the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists tweeted:Politico’s [Matt Wuerker] & a slew of guest cartoonists have put together a book that ties into “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists & the First Amendment,” […]
Artist, author, cartoonist Laurie Mitchell has passed away. Laurie L. Mitchell (aka Lori Jackman) ca. 1957/58 – September 14, 2019 From the obituary:On her return [from Europe] she worked as assistant manager at the Towne West B. Dalton Bookseller for 10 years before retiring to pursue her art. She sculpted in papier mache, did fabric decoration, […]
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. — Samuel JohnsonJeff Stahler gives the most succinct explanation […]
Mike has mentioned the ever-shifting English language as displayed in today’s Pearls. So I’ll just point to the June 16, 1958 Peanuts comic strip as the inspiration:That is really the middle of a ten day arc. Start on June 9, 1958 and read through. Milking it for all it’s worth; today’s Agnes is going to […]
I’m mostly sharing this week’s Mo because if Ann Telnaes is going to stick me with this earworm, I’m gonna pass it along like mumps.I’m sympathetic to vegetarians, but I’m unconvinced by the faux hamburger everyone’s going on about.It’s not a luxury, but it’s not cheap. I suppose if we all bought it, the price […]
Signe Wilkinson riffs on the recent report saying that our bird population has dropped by over a quarter since 1970, listing a number of ways in which birds die, though not, apparently, the Big One.The study itself is behind a paywall, but reading the reports from NPR and the Washington Post, the major problem seems […]
MAD Magazine #10, the last (for now) all-new issue, will soon hit the stands.Bloody-Disgusting.com previews the MAD #10 cover, and Sergio Aragonés’ A MAD Look at Alfred Hitchcock Movies. As mentioned this is the last ALL-NEW issue of MAD.Tom Richmond expands:There are a lot of rumors going around that MAD is ceasing publication after this […]