I wish I thought Mike Thompson were kidding a little more about this.Not that it’s 100 percent accurate: So far as I know, you won’t see goats and chickens wandering around the streets in Tehran. One of the oddities of Iran is that it has modern, Western-facing cities but the people out in the country […]
Saturday, May 18, will celebrate the best in a wide range of cartooning categories with The Reuben Award Dinner and Presentation Ceremonies.The people at Hogan’s Alley think they have the inside track as to who will win.For example:NOMINEES FOR THE GREETING CARD DIVISION AWARD: Scott Nickel, Maria Scrivan and Dan Walsh. After a one-year hiatus, […]
Juxtaposition of the Whimper, not the Bang(Mo)(RJ Matson)Mo and Bartender can fret all they want over the hijacking of the Fourth of July Celebration in Washington, but the best outcome would be a massive boycott and no crowds and — Guess what? — that ain’t gonna happen.Alice Roosevelt Longworth said of her father, TR, “My […]
Break of Day cartoonist Nate Fakes has done a two-part v-log on how to submit to syndicates. https://cartooningcourses.com/syndication-part-1-submitting/Disclosure: The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
The NCSFest will begin this week Wednesday. And Steve McGarry is why.For McGarry’s festival, comic art will be nearly everywhere downtown. Original work will be displayed at select businesses along Main Street and at 5th and PCH, popular artwork will be on display for free under the Big Tent at Pier Plaza, and more than […]
There are many things I don’t understand about IPOs, and Uber going public brings a lot of them to the surface, in large part because there’s a lot about Uber I don’t understand.It appears that Jimmy Margulies shares my confusion, because the part that seems clear is that, historically, people who signed up as scab […]
Pogo, Howard the Duck, Snoopy, Bill the Cat, and other comic characters have had runs at being the President of the United States.Yes, even Alfred E. Neuman. Now Alfred E. Neuman has been introduced into the 2020 race by President Trump.“Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States,” Trump told POLITICO in an exclusive […]
Famed Spanish illustrator Jordi Longarón has passed away.Jordi Longarón i Llopart (aka: Jorge Longarón) February 1 November 29, 1933 – May 10, 2019 Spanish comic artist Jordi Longarón made a name for himself throughout Europe; in the United States he was known as Jorge Longarón, artist of the Friday Foster comic strip. above: the first Friday […]
The most memorable legacy of Mark Harris’s classic baseball novel, “Bang the Drum Slowly” — which was made into a movie with Michael Moriarity and Robert De Niro — are the games of Tegwar, a ridiculous scam in which the object is to fleece some rookie or star-struck fan who doesn’t realize that “T.E.G.W.A.R.” stands […]
I have gotten way past the point of thinking anyone owes me anything. I’ve done OK with what I’ve been given and won’t bitch because I didn’t get a cherry on my free ice cream Sundae. But I can get pissed off on someone else’s behalf. The Pulitzer Prize is a subjective award; it’s not […]
Sherman’s Lagoon is in a story arc about visiting retirement homes, which included this “No Kidding” strip. I’m always amused by the phishing ads that want to manage money for old folks, or get them to sign over their houses or insurance policies or whatever.But I think the retirement homes are playing an interesting numbers […]
It started with an interview, during which old-timer Robert Mankoff claimed about cartooning:It’s a young person’s game. The idea that creative comic art goes on forever. It doesn’t. Not quite as old-timer Michael Maslin took issue with that statement:We’re reminded every so often that nothing lasts forever; I’ve found, however, that cartoonists are most often young […]
Nonprofit status has become a common business model for many news organizations just starting out. That magic “501(c)(3)” on an About page doesn’t solve all a publisher’s problems by any means — but it opens up new avenues of funding, communicates intent to audiences, and orients the organization toward a common cause. Now that appeal […]
Philadelphia attorney Joe Dworetzky went west to begin a new career in the creative arts. One of his new career choices was cartoonist, becoming a regular in The Stanford Daily with political cartoons.Now he has become a bicoastal resident and a bicoastal cartoonist.Today, we introduce a new cartoon and cartoonist to the fold of the […]
I saw Ann Telnaes‘ latest last night and wished she’d done it a day earlier, since it would have fit yesterday’s rant so well.And then I realized, this isn’t going out of style and it’s not like we’re not going to have this conversation over and over.The people who bet on Maximum Security will never […]