Drew Litton with a sports-cartoonist’s confession on the eve of the World Cup.There is more joy in Rio over one commentator who repents than over 99 who got it from the get-go.American indifference to the World Cup I can sorta kinda understand, at least if you add “Over 50” as a qualifier. Most Americans under […]

Back in February, Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was awarded the grand prix de la ville d?Angoulême at this year?s Angoulême International Comics Festival in France. The festival is one of the largest in the world. The prize honors an individual who has influenced the evolution of comics. The winner typically draws the event […]

Darrin Bell makes the iconic statement. I like Clay Bennett’s declaration that school shootings are the new normal, but here’s the distinction that I see:Bennett’s cartoon suggests that we’re still trying to protect our children.Bell’s says, rather, “Here is where we are.”And, by God, here is where we are.We’re not trying to protect our children. We […]

As you may know, the US Supreme Court will hear the case between Marvel (Disney) and the Jack Kirby heirs over the ownership rights to Kirby’s characters. From Deadline: On May 15, the nine Justices will debate in private Conference whether or not to get involved in the Kirby heir?s 5-year attempt to gain back […]

Another great “Learn to Draw” from The Doozies creator Tom Gammill who emcee’d this year’s Reuben Awards ceremonies. The segment where Tom and Jeannie Schulz get hitched is hilarious.

I was traveling yesterday and wasn’t able to update the blog. The Watterson-Pastis collaboration continues to blow people’s mind as evident by the amount of social media and real media attention. I’m not sure there’s a media outlet that didn’t give this biggest comic heist ever some love. Michael Cavna reports that Stephan Pastis’s blog […]

So, as long as we’re on the topic of peeking behind the curtain to see the stories behind the comics, here are a couple of other examples.Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorites because of Jim Toomey’s deft use of timing and character to create riffs that remind me of the Bob Newhart Show (the […]

Pardon My Planet reminds me of my last (three-dimensional) editing job. I had a staff of about a half dozen, which sounds small but was fewer people than it would have taken to do what was being demanded of them and, thus, of me.I was aware that people checked Facebook from time to time and […]

I was a bit coy yesterday about the whole Bill Watterson/Stephan Pastis thing because, at the pre-dawn hour when I was cobbling it together, the story still seemed confined to the insider sites and I didn’t want to spoil the surprise for people who had missed the reveal.About 30 seconds later, it was all over […]

This week’s comic explosion over who was guest drawing Pearls Before Swine and then the confirmation that it was none other than Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson wasn’t a fly-by-night collaboration. The two cartoonists, Bill and Pearls creator Stephan Pastis hatched this idea with a philanthropic intent of auctioning off the three strips through […]

This began as a rumor, expanded into a tease and then was finally confirmed.Pearls Before Swine had an arc this week in which a guest artist provided much more stylistically finished artwork than PBS creator Stephan Pastis could have, in an arc in which the premise is that a second grader has taken over the […]

Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis confirms that Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has been a collaborating guest artist in this week’s Pearls. Stephan recounts contacting Bill and actually getting a response back – and a suggestion for a comic idea.So he wrote back and explained his idea. He said he knew that in […]

Yesterday I published a poll asking people who they thought was providing art to this week’s Pearls Before Swine. There has been a lot of discussion and attention to Stephan Pastis’s strip this week based on speculation that the art is from Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. As of this morning about 60% believe […]

 So I guess the answer to “Have you no sense of decency?” is “Nope. None at all.”Clay Bennett nails it about as well as it can be nailed, on a day when we all pause to pay tribute to the Greatest Generation before going back to betraying the values they sacrificed to preserve.Bennett’s combination of […]

Have an opinion on who is providing art (see above) in this week’s Pearls Before Swine? Take the poll below and I’ll post the answers on Friday.Officially, Stephan Pastis isn’t saying one way or the other (Watterson vs. some other artist). The story-line concludes this Saturday with the answer.Loading…