The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted an official statement condemning the recent shooting attempt in Garland, TX.The shootings in Texas once again demonstrate that art is provocative, but we must not cower in the face of threats to this profession or to free expression. Political art, be it cartoons, paintings, sculpture, or anything […]

Cartoon Brew reports that Warner Bros. and Netflix are working on a 13-episode series of Dr. Seuss?s Green Eggs and Ham. One of the executive producers will be Ellen DeGeneres, which makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of this beloved book becoming an animated series. According the the Cartoon Brew post, the Seuss […]

Mike Rhode over at ComicsDC announced that this year’s recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy award for editorial cartooning is The Washington Post Writers Group’s Darrin Bell.From the announcement:The …awards… will be presented by Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy at a ceremony featuring remarks by Kerry Kennedy and Michael Beschloss on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Howie Noel of the great comic “Tara Normal” is here to talk with Lucas Turnbloom and me about his ongoing Kickstarter to fund the second book in the series, “Tara […]

Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis joined Tina Susman (LA Times), Linda Sarsour (strategist with the Campaign to Take on Hate and executive director of the Arab American Association of New York) and Gordon Coonfield, professor of communication at Villanova University as they discuss the Draw Muhammad contest shooting in Garland, TX, the controversial PEN […]

Brian Basset’s Red and Rover turns 15 today. During those 15 years, Brian has nominated four times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society – three of those four in the last five years (2010, 2012, 2014). It won that category in 2012.Congratulations, Brian on the milestone.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Islamic organization in the U.S., released a statement condemning the attempted shooting attack in Garland TX and made it very clear that it considered the event, the event organizers and leadership to be a hate-group against Islam. “We condemn yesterday’s attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, […]

Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gérard Briard was asked what was the difference between his magazine and Pamela Geller’s group in Texas that held the Draw Muhammad event. ?The thing is,? he answered, ?when we make a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad, or Jesus, or Moses, we don?t mock or attack people. We mock or attack institutions. […]

Daddy’s Home co-creator Gary Markstein has started doing cat cartoons for a local non-profit to deal with the issue of overpopulation of feral cats. The cartoons aren’t the LOLcatz kind of thing. It’s all about bringing awareness to a program called “Trap, Neuter and Return.”Gary got involved after visiting with a friend in Grand Rapids […]

From NPR:The self-declared Islamic State is taking credit for a thwarted attack on a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad in Garland, Texas. According to SITE, a company that monitors jihadi groups, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in the latest edition of its al-Bayan news bulletin. The group identified the two suspects as “two […]

Here’s a run-down of what we are learning of yesterday’s failed shooting of the Draw the Prophet event in Garland, TX Probably not surprising, the event organizers ABCNews is reporting that the FBI is searching an apartment in Phoenix AZ for clues in last nights shootings. The FBI is calling the resident of the apartment […]

The Simpsons writer, The Doozies creator and unquestionable Ernie Bushmiller fan (evidence here and here) Tom Gammill spied a comic strip props from this season’s Mad Men that included several Nancy strip by Ernie. Tom writes me:Fans of Mad Men may have noticed this season that copywriter Peggy Olson has Sunday comic strips taped to […]

The documentary Stripped by Directors Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder is now on Netflix. If you haven’t yet seen it queue it up and give it a watch.You can still buy it in DVD form. Head over to their site for details.

The Dallas Morning News reports that cartoonist Bosch Fawstin was named the winner of the Draw Muhammad contest for the best depiction of the Prophet Muhammad. The event was sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. I did a bit of sleuthing to learn who Bosch is. This article from FrontpageMag tells us that Bosch […]

The “Draw the Prophet” event scheduled today in Garland, TX ended with an attempted shooting by two men tonight. The alleged gunmen were shot by police who were at the event for extra security.Here’s the latest from CNN:Two men who opened fire outside a contest for Prophet Mohammad cartoons in a Dallas suburb were shot […]