I haven’t featured Madam & Eve much here recently, not because it hasn’t been just as sharp as ever, but because — apart from them hogging all the good weather for the past several months — it’s been commenting on news stories that, like the aforementioned weather, haven’t really made it out of South Africa.That […]
I don’t report much on the weekly ups and downs of which comics are getting picked up and dropped, but the recent results of a comic survey in the Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) is interesting. In fine pie-chart form, they report the popularity of the comics they run in the paper. Obviously this is specific to […]
Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson were among several individuals connected to the Philadelphia newspapers named in a defamation suit filed by Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery and his wife Lise Rapaport who allege the paper conducted a smear campaign. The suit mentions a specific Signe cartoon (see below) satirizing the […]
Mike Thompson earns the lead-off spot today with an appropriately dark commentary on the Supreme Court’s official declaration that we are now a plutocracy.It reminds me of an exchange in “The Mikado,” in which Nanki-poo seeks information from Pooh-bah, the Lord High Everything Else (and hence the epithet):NANKI-POO : But how good of you (for I […]
We’re close to the last week of fundraising for the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. I’ve mentioned the campaign before. It’s a wonderful festival and Ann puts so much of her heart and soul into it each year. Currently Ann just $2,500 shy to her goal. If she makes the goal, the Indiegogo fees are 7%, […]
Toronto Sun’s editorial cartoonist Andy Donato will be inducted into the Italian Walk of Fame on May 28 with a special ceremony. From the Toronto Sun:Jimi Bertucci, co-founder of the Italian Walk of Fame, called Donato a Canadian icon. ?He has had a tremendous impact on Canadian culture,? he said. ?We feel really honoured he?s […]
At the end of this month, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts: Artist’s Edition will hit bookshelves. Retail is $150. Amazon is currently listing it at $97.51 – a pretty good discount for a newly (or soon to be) released book. The price guarantee also states that if the price of the book drops lower before it’s released, […]
We’re in full awards season now. The latest announcement is the results of the Best of the West contest. The Best of the West is a journalism contest for papers, magazines and news websites operating in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In the category […]
Let’s start with Tom Toles’ latest, since it’s not only self-explanatory but a little over-explained. He didn’t have to drag Yogi along to show his source for a famous quote that perfectly mocks the false-logic of current attacks.If there is something encouraging in all this, it is that a constant drumbeat of misunderstanding, spin, exaggeration […]
Ted Rall:The New Yorker is terrible for cartooning because it prints a lot of awful cartoons, and uses its reputation in order to elevate terrible work as the profession?s platinum standard. They pay pretty well. Which prompts too many talented artists, who under a better economic and media model would produce interesting, intelligent, great cartoons […]
Gonna start today’s short-takes with Hagar the Horrible because it sparks the best rant.To start with, I like the strip because the term “Viking meal” takes me back to my Year of Living on Campus, when someone would occasionally declare a Viking meal at the dininghall, meaning that we were expected to eat without implements […]
The news of Mike Ritter has hit the AAEC community hard. Watching the outpouring on personal blogs, Twitter and Facebook has been inspiring. Not long after Mike came out of the closet, he dropped off the radar ceasing all contact with friends and his past life in Arizona and resurfaced in Georgia. From reports, a […]
When the comic strip Annie was retired from the comics page in 2010, the story-line left readers with a cliffhanger with Annie in clutches of a war criminal known as “The Butcher of the Balkans.” The assassin promised he wouldn’t kill Annie, but she’d spend the rest of her days with him on his “deadly […]
Congratulations are in order to Detroit Free Press editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson who took first place in the 80th National Headliner Awards. The award recognizes the best in journalism in several categories.Second place this year goes to Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Nate Beeler with third place going to syndicated cartoonist Stuart Carlson (formerly of the Milwaukee […]
From Cartoonbrew:This weekend, Disney?s Frozen became the highest grossing animated film of all time. Its $1.072 billion worldwide gross has surpassed the $1.063 billion of Toy Story 3, which was the previous record-holder for biggest animated feature. Frozen now ranks number 10 on the all-time list of highest-grossing films. The film has has earned an […]