Stuart Carlson offers a refreshing change from the Inkpot Generals who are inundating us with cartoons about how sanctions are for pantywaists and that real men send other people’s children out to die.There has been a thing floating around the Internet for a few years about how no two countries with McDonald’s have ever gone […]

The much anticipated Bill Watterson, Richard Thompson twin exhibit opened last weekend at the Billy Ireland Library at Ohio State University. Curated by Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk, by all reports, it surpassed all expectations.The best play by play of the event came from Chris Sparks’s Facebook account. Since it’s not open to public, read […]

Lee Salem, perhaps one of the most influential individuals in newspaper comics in the last 30 years, officially enters retirement today. He stepped down as Universal Uclick president last year taking the title of president emeritus and editorial director. Some of the talent that Lee discovered and fostered include the biggest names in comics: Garry […]

Donna Lewis’s “Replay All” is a good place to go right after a discursion on New Yorker cartoons, because she has that same, “yep, that’s how it is” approach: Observational humor that doesn’t have a punchline so much as a wry acknowledgement. This particular arc has me laughing because, to start with, a once-noble paper, the […]

Sunday, Morley Safer took 60 Minutes to the New Yorker to see how the cartoons were selected. The 13 minute segment is below along with other web extras.So you want to see your cartoon In The New Yorker?Extra: Morley Safer’s favorite New Yorker cartoons:Extra: Bob Mankoff as a cartoonExtra: Twenty-five years of cartoon rejection

Last night, 60 Minutes did either a profile on Bob Mankoff or a piece on how the New Yorker selects cartoons, the two being close enough that it may be a distinction without a difference.If you missed it, go here. It’s an interesting 13 minutes, and I was going to embed it, but, while it […]

I’ve put Neil Degrasse Tyson’s reboot of “Cosmos” in the category of things I’m glad are happening but that I’m not actually going to watch. I did watch the first part long enough to get tired of whiz-bang special effects telling me things I already knew.But, if I still had little kids, I’d be making […]

“Personal time” is kind of a strange concept for writers and I would assume cartoonists as well, and perhaps for anybody who gets paid to do what they want to do anyway. I have a service dog, in that he exists simply to get me up and away from the computer twice a day for […]

This Sunday Morley Safer talks with New Yorker editor David Remnick about the cartoon selection process. Expect to see Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor. Here’s the preview/teaser:Oops… here it is for real.

Brace yourself for negativity. The flood of “Fred is Dead” cartoons is about to hit.But one of the first out of the gate was this refreshingly decent take by Joe Heller.”How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world,” Portia observed.Joe has it right, but, based on […]

Malaysian authorities aren’t happy with an editorial cartoonist by Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, AKA Zunar, drew a cartoon that was posted on Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog. The cartoon is critical to the Malaysian government’s slow response to the missing airline. From the Jakarta Post:Head of politics, security, and international affairs cluster, Professor Dr. Mohamed Mustafa […]

Just a reminder that next Wednesday is the premiere of the long awaited debut of documentary Stripped in Hollywood, CA (see details below). If you are attending that night, your ticket also serves as a raffle ticket with a chance to win one of ten exclusive Bill Watterson posters. You can still buy tickets. The […]

In a series on GCTV celebrating Women’s History Month, Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price talks about how she got into the male-dominate field of cartooning.

This weekend is the opening of the Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Head curator Jenny Robb talks to Bill and curator Caitlin McGurk interviewed Richard about their art, influences, and the current state of comics. Excerpts below. Be sure to read the full interviews. And by […]