Cartoonists Rights Network International reports that one member of the Scottish Parliament is proposing that January 7, the anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, become Cartoonists day.French-born MSP Christian Allard proposed the motion that the parliament ?reflect on the events that took place in Paris on 7 January 2015 at the Charlie […]
From the Guardian:This week the largest comics festival in France announced its 30 nominees for what many consider the most prestigious prize in comics, the Grand Prix. Not one nominee was a woman. Usually there are at least few women on the longlist for the Angoulême International Comics Festival (known in French as the Festival […]
Today’s Bizarro comes about week after I had one of those visits to the doctor where you have to take something and then sit around waiting for it to kick in, during which time I read a copy of “Field and Stream,” which I hadn’t read since my days as a kid in the barbershop.I’ve said […]
Today’s Andertoons is one that could run about anytime these days, since there doesn’t seem to be a moment when someone isn’t pestering you for feedback.I bought a pair of Yaktrax online and, 24 hours after they arrived, got an email from the third-party supplier with the subject line “We need you to write an […]
Timing is everything in comedy and all sorts of other stuff as well.I encountered Harry Bliss’s daily panel at Gocomics within half an hour of coming across a Very Important Interview with a Very Important Artist about a Very Important Piece of Work she had done as a Very Important Commentary on a Very Important […]
A new comic is born. Well, sort of. Over at Between Friends, Kim is finally getting down to creating her strip and she had me at “Kate Mathis.”Or maybe in the festival of credits she bestows upon herself at the start. (You forgot “letterer,” Kim.)Or maybe it’s the way Kim Matthews has been dithering around over […]
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 […]