A nice development for Matt Bors’ The Nib.First Look Media today announced that they have partnered with award winning cartoonist Matt Bors on his irreverent comics publication, The Nib. Formerly part of the online platform Medium, The Nib will re-launch this summer through First Look Media as an independent daily publication and online newsletter. Created […]
(Nick Anderson) (Jen Sorensen)No need to stay up late last night except that it wasn’t my first rodeo and, while confident of the final outcome, I wanted to see the later totals.I kind of wish I hadn’t hung around on social media, though, because the vitriol from Clinton supporters was deeply upsetting, and it wasn’t […]
I’m not as moved by the topic of Joe Heller’s cartoon as I am by its excellence on a professional level. To start with, it was a quick turn-around on the one Super Bowl commercial that got significant chatter. Every ad agency works to create a Super Bowl one-and-done spot, to the point where the last several […]
A “production error” in yesterday’s funny pages placed Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark inside Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine in a number of newspapers. The full scope of the glitch is unknown at this point, but readers on a Pearls Before Swine fan page listed some of the newspapers affected which reportedly include:Los Angeles Times […]
Tom Toles explains the Democratic race in four panels.I’ve seen purists and True Believers in both camps, and I am trying very hard to believe they are at the extreme edge and that the bulk of both Bernie and Hillary supporters will hold their noses and vote if their chosen candidate doesn’t get the nod.It […]
From the National Cartoonist Society website:On January 23, the National Cartoonists Society awarded Mell Lazarus, cartoonist of the long-running comic strip Momma, with the NCS Medal of Honor in Los Angeles, California. The Medal of Honor was created in 2015 to honor past Reuben Award winners with recognition for their lifetime contributions to the cartooning […]
Kal Kallaugher’s humorous-but-thoughtful cartoon on the issue of brain injuries in football stands out from a number of bad cartoons on the topic, because it suggests that (A) he’s not opposed to sports overall and (B) he was actually aware of the issue before the Will Smith movie, “Concussion,” was released at Christmas. (As was Mike […]
From Economic Times:LOS ANGELES: Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s blanket-wielding best friend Linus in his ” Peanuts” comic strip and cartoons, has died at age 90. Maurer died Jan. 29 in Sonoma, California, his longtime partner Mary Jo Starsiak […]
Deflocked touches on a new lesson I’ve just had. As mentioned before, I’m currently at the Colorado Chapter of the International Reading Association conference in Denver, which is a massive event drawing teachers from well beyond Colorado itself.Among the benefits of hanging out with teachers this year is the discovery that there are now cell phones for […]
I noticed The Peanuts Movie was listed as being available for streaming on February 12 on Apple iTunes. That date is significant as the anniversary of the passing of Charles Schulz 16 years ago. The video also becomes available on Amazon instant streaming on that date. For those of you wanting to buy the DVD or Blu-ray, […]
Tough topic today for two reasons:One is that criticizing whiners is very apt to turn in on itself, and, as regular readers know, I try to avoid having too many Andy Rooney moments.The prototypical Andy Rooney whine was when he complained about the air in potato chip bags, the whiney part being that, since he […]
Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod has passed at the age of 91.You can read the full obituary in the Gainesville Times.Jack Elrod Jr., a Gainesville native who spent 64 years working on the nationally syndicated outdoor comic ?Mark Trail,? died Wednesday. He was 91. Elrod began his time with the comic strip alongside its creator, […]
The Oregonian pulled three strips from a Non Sequitur week-long strip series that poked fun at the armed occupants of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. The series ran January 25-30, but after one of the militant leaders was shot on the 27th during an attempt to arrest him by authorities, the paper […]
Well, the Foothills, anyway. I’d love to be up in the mountains, but the glimpse of them on the way from the airport to the conference hotel will have to do.Speaking of the airport, it didn’t take long to see that there’s some excitement going on around here.My sister, who lives here, sent me a […]
When I looked for a cover shot of Rosalie Lightning, I found a lot of entries and so perhaps I’m late to this, but, since I suspect the bulk of my readers are comic strip people rather than graphic novel people, maybe I’m not too far behind the curve.In any case, I’m writing about it […]