The Grand Prix d’ Angouleme is one of the highest awards that can be conferred upon a cartoonist. Previous American honorees include Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb and Bill Watterson. This year’s list of 30 nominees did not include the name of any woman and that has many cartoonists upset. Leading the charge is Jessica […]
Newspapers aren’t the only medium cutting comics. Yahoo! has announced it has closed down its online comics page that ran on their Yahoo! News portal.From the NY Post:The comics appeared as part of Yahoo! News, which attracts some 43 million unique users per month. A Yahoo! spokeswoman said: ?We never had a destination. We did […]
I rise to a point of personal privilege to recognize the 25th Anniversary of Big Nate, which is saluted here at the GoComics blog not only with some praise and fun but with a chance to win some Big Nate books and the announcement that friend-of-the-blog Lincoln Peirce will be live-tweeting tomorrow (Friday). I have no […]
David Horsey Dan WassermanBoy, the new year has sure kicked off with a bang for the paranoid and undereducated.The immediate response to Obama’s executive order has been interesting. The usual suspects have, as Wasserman suggests, jerked their knees, but I’ve also seen a lot of response from gun owners that what he has ordered doesn’t […]
I’ll admit I haven’t been following TV coverage of the Oregon standoff, but between Jen Sorensen’s take and Ann Telnaes’s animation and a few lesser commentaries, I gather the media confusion I cited yesterday has not cleared up appreciably.I have noticed that disjointed reporting continues in on-line sources and, meanwhile, the false equivalencies continue to flourish […]
From The GuardianFrench satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since an attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: ?One year on: the assassin is still out there.?
Between some repeats, some un-updated sites and a continuing trickle of late-arriving New Year’s gags, it seems apparent that having a major holiday fall on Friday means Monday doesn’t exactly hit the ground running, particularly when it’s New Years and we’ve just had an entire week of nobody doing anything.However, at least the crazies worked […]
The reverberations of the Ted Cruz organ-grinder cartoon persist as we near the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders, and if any clarity has emerged from either, it is that you can not argue a fool into understanding.The true folly is to recognize that a person is either deliberately lying or genuinely incapable of understanding, and […]
I gotta say, digging through the pile of New Year’s cartoons this morning didn’t yield a whole lot of ponies.Good Rule of Thumb: If the idea comes that easily, it probably occurred to everyone else, too.Whatever. You got credit for showing up on the holiday and the holiday is over.Now how’s about everyone getting back to […]
And welcome to 1916!Let’s start this look at the New Year of a century ago with a quick review of the year just past, and, since we’re in pre-1923 public-domain territory anyway, not only can you click to embiggen, but you can get an even clearer look if you simply download a copy,The big story […]
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo returns to temporarily take over Hilary Price’s Rhymes With Orange.From Rina’s blog:As some of you may remember, I?ve had a few stints as a guest on RWO over the years. What can I say ? Hilary is one of my ultimate favorite gag cartoonists, and in my opinion her comic […]
Start with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which happens to tie into this Hemingway spoof I posted on Facebook yesterday. Ironically, “A Moveable Feast” is firmly anchored at my house: It’s next to the john, because I was decluttering and donating and came across it and thought, “Well, I suppose I ought to read it first.”Reading “The […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
The blowback over Ann Telnaes’ cartoon condemning Ted Cruz for exploiting his children continues, and I suppose you could ask, had she gone Rob Rogers’ route and depicted the three of them as clowns, would the explosion have happened?And the cynical response is that Ted would still have risen up all butt-hurt and asking for […]
Children’s book illustrator Will Terry reviews Apple’s iPad Pro as a professional illustration device.