Earlier this week Stephen Roth interviewed Jeff Corriveau about his Deflocked comic strip and life as a cartoonist.GoComics: You’ve stated that DeFlocked is based loosely on Hippocrates’ Four Humors. Can you explain to those of us who aren’t Greek scholars what that means, and how you came up with the idea? Jeff: Yeah, it’s this […]

It’s Mary Shelley’s birthday so I’m gathering pieces from various spots to compose a Quick Hits entry. It’s BookFest all over the Nation The Washington Post celebrates by commissioning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell to compose a simply wonderful comic strip featuring his Mutts characters.   Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End The biographic documentary about cartoonist Dwayne Booth […]

As Mike Peterson noted today, anti-Muslim fanatic Geert Wilders planned to replicate a cartoon contest that a dozen years ago resulted in death and destruction.The contest was to have been held at the tightly guarded offices of his Party for Freedom in the Dutch parliament building. The Dutch government had been at pains to distance […]

xkcd fires back on behalf everyone comfortable enough with the language to use it intelligently, by which I mean to communicate an idea beyond “I’ve memorized these rules.”One of my most-cited sites is known informally as “Everyone Loves Their Jane Austen,” though it’s listed on search engines as “Singular “their” in Jane Austen and elsewhere: […]

 Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith has a new book coming out next Spring.Not that an excuse is needed to do a career spanning interview with Bill Griffith.Alan Bisbort talks to Bill about his influences, his mother’s love affair with cartoonist and cartoon editor Lawrence Lariar, his life in San Francisco among the hippie sub-culture, […]

After 27 years cartoonist Chad Carpenter gets his Tundra comic strip into his hometown newspaper.Monday afternoon Chad Carpenter sat in his Alaska State Fair booth surrounded his Tundra Comics merchandise. But that’s not all that’s on Carpenter’s agenda this week. Carpenter, the Valley’s most noted cartoonist, will see his Tundra Comics appear in his hometown […]

Stephan Pastis scoffs at readers’ complaints… and then, in his own way, trolls them.They say it’s unwise to annoy a cartoonist. Take, for example, Stephan Pastis. In a recent comic strip, the “Pearls Before Swine” creator took aim at those who nitpick over grammatical errors while also giving a shout-out to the central Pennsylvania region. In the […]

I wish I thought Matt Davies‘ cartoon would reach more of the people it probably won’t.I find myself increasingly in the position of wanting to fine-tune arguments in a world in which there is no longer a vertical hold or a horizontal hold or, lord knows, a fine-tuning button.And most of the people I’m talking […]

Alley Oop by Jack and Carole BenderThis is Jack and Carole’s last week on Alley Oop, and they seem to be taking a time machine back to earlier days with some tributes. Read their last week here.  Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Rick Burchett Also ending this week (Sunday) is the special Dick Tracy Minit […]

Nashville’s NewsChannel5 has a Dream Jobs segment, this week they spent some time with cartoonist Matt Wuerker.Matt Wuerker first started drawing cartoons when Jimmy Carter was President. He freelanced for a long time before landing a more permanent spot at Politico when he was 50.Matt calls himself old-fashioned, and says adding visual humor and caricature […]

While Mike Luckovich may have been bumped from CNN, but he won’t have that problem this weekend at the Decatur Book Festival where he will appear.Speaking at the AJC Decatur Book Festival this weekend, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist will discuss his new collection, which covers President Donald Trump from his campaign’s infancy — with […]

Brian Fies “Outstanding Online Comic” and Julia Kaye “Outstanding Collection” have been nominated for Ignatz Awards (given by and at the Small Press Expo).Click here for the complete list of nominees.

“Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell and New Yorker and “Bliss” cartoonist Harry Bliss to appear at the Library of Congress’  National Book Festival on September 1st at the Washington (D.C.) Convention Center.More info here.

The Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune has a story today about the inspiration for the “Doc” character in Milt Caniff’s “Terry and the Pirates.” From the story:Enloe’s military service, noted the previously cited article in Nutrition Today magazine, resulted in what the Mid-Missouri medical professional claimed his “greatest distinction” when he became the “prototype for the […]

I was just saying to someone last night that I’d like to just comment on a few funny comic strips here like in the old days, but it seems impossible.However, this developing Edison Lee story arc — that’s yesterday’s and today’s strips — is as political as I’m gonna get today. Promise.I think that, whether […]