Many comic fans noted that the story-line this week in Pearls Before Swine contained artwork out of character for creator Stephan Pastis’s drawing style. On Monday, Stephan tweeted the following: This week’s Pearls strips will contain a mind-blowing surprise. I promise. pic.twitter.com/bzLS9zkBdF — Stephan Pastis (@stephanpastis) June 2, 2014The story-line this week has a second […]
This was an exceptionally good day on the comics page, full of doubles and triples and not a few home runs, so let me do a quick NPR rant and say that, if you don’t have a Comics Kingdom and/or GoComics account, well, you’re missing out on supporting some good work, even if you are […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis had a stop at the Washington Post where he visited with Michael Cavna. Below are video of his segment with Michael and drawing for the crowd.
Andy Warner tells us all about the pizzly bear at the Nib on Medium.com, and you should go have a look at the whole thing for two reasons:1. It’s interesting and well-presented.2. The fact that it’s interesting and well-presented hit me at the right moment, because it’s part of a whole issue of graphic non-fiction […]
I’m happy to present GoComics for a third and final week of sponsorship for The Daily Cartoonist. It’s probably not a hard stretch of the imagination to understand that GoComics, being the largest comic portal on the internet, is the home to the most number of award-winning cartoonists. For instance, this year’s recipient of The […]
Alex is a British comic strip about business, and I’m willing to admit that my years of writing about business, combined with childhood subscriptions to Swift, Eagle and finally Punch may have set me up for this one.However, it’s not so businessy and British that it won’t work for a general audience elsewhere, and today’s […]
The Cartoonists Rights Network International has called for nominations for their annual Courage in Editorial Cartooning award. The award goes to an “political or social cartoonist who has demonstrated exceptional courage in the face of overwhelming threats while pursuing their Article 19 freedom of speech rights and the art of political cartooning.” This is an […]
Last Saturday night was the grand unveiling of Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonists Pat Bagley’s 15’ tall “10 most notable and notorious Utahans” mural in The Leonardo which also concluded his month as their artist in residence with the museum.The cocktail reception also included a great slide presentation of some of Pat’s best work. Below […]
Clay Jones on the dismay conservatives are expressing over the release of Sgt.Bowe Bergdahl from five years as a POW.Apparently, letting Qatar act as a go-between to set up a prisoner exchange is not, in their minds, as noble as breaking an international arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran and then using the money […]
I mentioned recently that I’m trying to avoid TLDNR Syndrome. Today offers a chance, since a lot of cartoonists have served up strips that require little elaboration.Much as I contend that a good strip makes you laugh because it made you think, there are ones that make you laff, which is different. They still raise […]
The other day, I started my reflections on the Santa Barbara shootings with a cartoon drawn in the wake of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Here, Steve Breen makes a more pointed comment on a massacre that happened just a few years later.And so here we sit, three decades later, still asking the […]
Much thanks goes out to Universal Uclick for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist for a second week and for giving me a chance to plug one of my long-time favorite strips Wumo. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to check out their strip, head over to GoComics.com. You can also find them on the GoComics app […]
Dan Thompson strikes a nerve with today’s Brevity.I noted the other day that Barnes & Noble, for those of us outside the megalopolis where it is apparently staffed by people who know how a book operates, is not a bookstore so much as it is just another faceless Big Box, and it’s the faceless Big […]
Jordan Gray of the Idaho Press-Tribune profiles Lola creator Todd Clark:The man behind the pen and Lola’s witty zingers is Todd Clark, 50, of Boise. In an office with walls crammed full of comic strips from fellow artists, his own work and plenty of Boise State University memorabilia, Clark sketches out Lola, her son Ray, […]
I mentioned back in March that Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod was retiring. He’s 90 years old. James Allen is taking over. From WXIA in Sandy Springs, GA: