This cartoon by Raul Fernando Zuleta pleases me for a variety of reasons beyond its overall sardonic brilliance.The first is the simple one, which is tying it into the idiotic notion by Facebook people that if a particular sick/crippled/disabled/dying child gets a number of “likes,” some cosmic event will occur. But that’s just foolishness in […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode:Well, it’s not exactly “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish,” but it IS time for a break.After nearly six years and 197 episodes, and two previous years and 70 episodes of […]
I’ve been enjoying the current time-travel arc in Edison Lee, and, when he turned to Carl Sagan for help in trying to get back to 2014, it coincided neatly with this Fresh Air interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who is about to launch a sequel to Cosmos.And who is a pretty cool guy anyway, but […]
The NFL is seriously considering a 15-yard penalty for, as it is explained, use of the N-word. Some commentators are already asking how on earth they plan to police that, which is a worthwhile question, given that some of the most effective trash-talking is done where the refs won’t hear it.Clay Bennett points out something […]
Hollywood Reporter reports that after the surprise success of The LEGO Movie, a sequel is already in the works for a Memorial Day release in 2017. The announced date is significant. February is typically a month for not-your-blockbuster movies which I think is why The LEGO Movie proved to be so successful – nobody was […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees this year go to Wiley Miller, (Non Sequitur), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine, and the Timmy Failure series), Hilary Price (Rhymes With Orange,) and Mark Tatulli (Heart of the City, Lio). I won’t be disappointed […]
Break out the credit card!The original artwork featuring the first ever appearance of Wolverine, by artist Herb Trimpe, on the final page of The Incredible Hulk #180 (1974) has surfaced from the private hands where it has resided for more than three decades. It’s going to be auctioned on May 16.The backstory of where the […]
As a tool for awakening the masses, this is probably hopeless. But Tom the Dancing Bug at least gets credit for sticking a sharp stick in Facebook’s ribs.Yes, there are click farms organized to boost the visibility of their clients’ posts. However, while giving Facebook money to advertise your products is a waste, there is plenty […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: “Pearls Before Swine” mastermind Stephan Pastis is off on another world tour to give talks, meet the fans, and to sign the new “Pearls” book “Pearls Falls Fast,” and his latest Timmy […]
The upcoming release of Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder’s documentary Stripped got a big win when Bill Watterson provided artwork for the poster.From The New York Times Arts Beat: “In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and an elegance that really I would put against any other art,” Mr. Watterson says in […]
Fantastic news from Santa Monica where the city council voted 6-1 to keep Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad’s Chain Reaction sculpture near the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Proponents of the sculpture raised over $100,000 in an effort to save the art work after the city said it would not provide funds necessary for […]
The awesome Anne Morse Hambrock is gearing up for another fantastic Kenosha Festival of Cartooning this year. If you haven’t heard about the festival or know a lot about it, it’s a small (but growing) festival in Wisconsin that is a three-day love affair of all things comic art. Fans get meet their favorite cartoonists, […]
German cartoonist Burkhard Mohr has apologized for drawing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a hooked-nose octopus in a cartoon related to the recent Facebook acquisition of Whatsapp. The cartoon generated controversy because it was viewed as a anti-Semitic and bore a close likeness to 1930 Nazi anti-Jew propaganda.According to Silicon Republic, the apology said, “Anti-Semitism […]
(Clay Bennett) (David Horsey)I’ve complained about political cartoonists who didn’t bother to examine the situation in Ukraine before sitting down at their drawing boards (or booting up their drawing boards or whatever one does). I don’t like to belabor a particular current event, but these two pieces certainly deserve mention.Both are by remarkable draftsmen, though […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Greg Johnson, who was awesome enough to help out “The Daily Cartoonist” Kickstarter by purchasing some time on Tall Tale Radio, is here to talk about the development of his first attempt […]