Ted Rall has announced that Pando Daily, an online news site with a focus on Silicon Valley, has hired him full-time to draw “editorial cartoons, spot illustrations and comix journalism”.From his blog:Having witnessed the disintegration of print media since before there was an Internet, mostly due to terrible management decisions, I?m thrilled to join a […]
I’m just on the point (fingers crossed/wood knocked upon) of having a client sign off on a project that has been a lot of fun, a 14-chapter children’s historical fiction serial about a young fellow going off from Lachine, Quebec, into the high country as a voyageur in 1800.Collaborating artist for the project has been […]
I’m incredibly happy that Universal Uclick, the people who syndicate some of the best known features in the world, is this week’s sponsor. Universal operates GoComics.com – home to hundreds of the finest comics on the innerwebs. In fact, I’m not quite sure a larger collection of comic strips exists on the web. Each month […]
(Freshly Squeezed)There was a joke going around the Soviet Union, back when such a place existed, about an attempt by the leader to burnish the image of the central government.I’m sure the role of leader in the joke was as quickly re-cast to remain current as the role itself was recast in reality, as that […]
One of the occasional features of “Tom the Dancing Bug” has been Super-Fun-Pak Comix, a dadaist piece in which Ruben Bolling mocks really drab, spiritless comics.Now Super-Fun-Pak Comix (that’s a different link) is a feature of its own on the GoComics site, presenting one drab, spiritless bit of mockery at a time.At a time when […]
A big thanks to Bearman Cartoons for sponsoring this week’s blog. If you haven’t taken the time, head over to Bearman’s site to check out his editorial cartoons, pop culture cartoons, social media cartoons and caricatures. And even better, if you use his name “Bearman” in a cartoon he will donate $10 to charity. It’s […]
This came across my Facebook feed and I thought I’d share. JetPens is selling a five pen bundle of Brush pens for only $26. Some are felt tip, others synthetic hair. My trusty Pentel Pocket Brush Pen is in the mix – usually a $20 pen by itself. Once I found the Pentel Pocket Brush […]
LA Times editorial cartoonist David Horsey has been honored with this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The RFK award recognizes “outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s dedication to human rights and social justice, and his belief in the power of individual action.”
There are a lot of cartoons about climate-change deniers around at the moment, but I’m more pleased to see Keith Knight go after the race-problem deniers, and do it in a way that is pointed and unambiguous, but also funny.Not everyone can pull that combination off.There was a story on an NPR blog the other […]
Cory Thomas, creator of Watch Your Head announced on the strip’s Facebook page that it will be coming to an end as a syndicated comic on May 31st. Cory will be rebooting the strip as a web only feature on August 4.From the post:It’s a better fit for the daring PG-13, larger-than-stamps action I’d rather […]
Derf, creator of The City, has announced today that he’s ending after 24 years to concentrate on graphic novels.From his blog:It was never my plan to produce The City this long. Nearly a quarter of a century? How the hell did THAT happen? But I?d be nothing without this cranky, quirky, little comic strip. Still […]
Fox28 visits The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and talks to Caitlin McGurk about the amazing library/museum.
(Sally Forth) (Heart of the City)An interesting interplay — nearly a “juxtaposition” one might say — between Sally Forth and Heart of the City today. And, no, I don’t want to know what a strip would be like if Ted were the father and Dean were the kid. One of them per strip is probably […]
This is a great video with concepts not just for animation, but still drawings too. The illusion of life from cento lodigiani on Vimeo.
David Reddick, creator of Legend of Bill and The Trek Life will be launch a new comic strip this summer with King Features Syndicate. The feature is called Intelligent Life. From the strip’s Facebook page:INTELLIGENT LIFE is a comic strip that revolves around a set of characters who very much exist in this world of […]