The Deseret (Salt Lake City) News has done a story on Brigham Young University professor Kerry Soper. Soper is the author of “Gary Larson and The Far Side” an in-depth look at the influence and importance of the comic.From the story: Soper’s reverence for “The Far Side” belies its decidedly irreverent spirit — or, as Soper describes […]
Clay Bennett extracts the meat from Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes interview with President Trump:President Trump at rally: “And then we fell in love, okay. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they’re great letters. We fell in love.” Lesley Stahl: I wanna read you his resume, okay? He presides over a cruel kingdom of […]
WLRN-TV in Miami has produced a documentary short about Carlos Castellanos and Hector Cantu … also known as the creators of the syndicated comic “Baldo.”See video here.
This past weekend [Cedric Hohnstadt] drove down to Kansas City, MO for the Fall Cartooning Weekend sponsored by the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The main event was an afternoon of lectures hosted at the offices of comic book syndicate Andrews McMeel Universal, the company behind GoComics [and The Daily Cartoonist]. Cedric […]
Kate Beaton has a thoughtful and extended twitter reflection on what it took and what she’s realized in her comics’ career:From the thread: I wish talent was enough to earn success, but promotion and hustle and ambition are all needed for most people. I don’t think I know anyone who enjoys promoting their work, it’s ok […]
Joy of Tech asks a key question, which is why we seem to ignore major problems that impact the entire world, but obsess over less consequential issues if they impact us more personally and immediately.The immediate answer — and the gag I think they had in mind — is that we are a bunch of […]
Jungle Jim ran as a Sunday-only comic strip from 1934 to 1954. It was King Features Syndicate’s response to the Tarzan comic strip and began as the topper to King Features’ answer to Buck Rogers. above: the first Jungle Jim strip (hat tip Jim Keefe).Unlike Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim never got a daily strip.Though a […]
Prince Valiant is home and, as has become traditional, he and Aleta meet in a modest but passionate bit of underwater ballet which reminds me of the famous/notorious swimming sequence in the first Johnny Weismuller pre-code Tarzan both because it is joyous and sensuous and also because Maureen O’Sullivan had a body double.Aleta always keeps it […]
(Tom Toles)(Ann Telnaes)Let’s start the day with an all-WashPo Juxtaposition.I will confess, I gave up on Bob Woodward’s “Fear” about a third of the way through. As noted here before, it felt rushed, with a lot of incidents but without a unifying thread, which doesn’t make for engrossing reading.But it does start with the Hidden […]
Comedian Chili Challis has passed away.“I like flying kites, the higher the better. Sometimes I like doing it sober too.”BERT (CHILI) CHALLIS DECEMBER 27, 1950 – OCTOBER 9, 2018 Comedian, gag writer Chili has written for and worked with the likes of Jay Leno, Ron White, Fred Willard, George Lopez, Steve Harvey, Sinbad, Drew Carey, Ellen Degeneres, […]
The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune is replacing their newest comic strip, Breaking Cat News, with Nancy, an old classic of sorts.As Managing Editor Craig Clohessy explainsOne thing I learned early on is that Lewiston Tribune readers take their comic strips seriously. Accidentally leave one out of the paper, change its size, or — heaven forbid — […]
Ben betrays his Canadian roots by talking snowbirds so close to Canadian Thanksgiving.When I lived by the highway between Montreal and warmer climes, we’d see the Quebecers heading south about now, having completed their holiday festivities, and it does fit with the time the geese also go to visit golf courses and public parks further […]
The past month has seen a number of editorial cartoons showing Lady Justice being assaulted by The Ruling Party. But one from Canada “went viral.”Bruce MacKinnon’s cartoon shows a blindfolded Lady Justice being held down on a bed by Republican hands with her mouth covered. The cartoon has received passionate responses on social media. Some believe it’s […]
Joshua Olsen has been named the winner of GoComics 2018 Short Shorts Animation Contest.Animators who entered their own 60-second-or-less video were eligible to win a $25,000 grand prize from GoComics.So Josh got a bit more than just a nice plaque.The GoComics blog carries the short notice with a link to ten finalists on YouTube. If you […]
Joy of Tech comments on the sort-of-sudden demise of Google Plus, and I find myself somewhat constrained to comment because I pretty much hated Google Plus from the start.It’s not them, it’s me. Back at the dawn of time, when AOL was new, I got on their Instant Messenger service long enough to start to […]