The National Cartoonist Society has announced the line-up of speakers for the upcoming Reuben Awards weekend. Also announced is a return of the NCS A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire) given to a notable individual who aspired to be a cartoonist but became famous by other means. This year’s A.C.E. recipient is ?Weird Al? Yankovic. NCS […]
Let’s start with an extremely sensible ruleIf Alex Raymond places a woman in your path, do not question her motives. Or his. Just stop the wagon.Sure, she might try to kill you. But why focus on the negative? Too-Smart-For-The-Room Juxtapositions of the Day(Bizarro)(Lio)(Loose Parts)I want to see the Bizarro done as a performance piece in an […]
I don’t feature animations here very often because, well, because I hate them.Timing is one of the critical attributes of comedy, and, in a comic strip, it is a particular technique that sets static comedy apart from performance comedy, to coin a couple of terms.That is, timing is always critical, but when what you have […]
On May 4 an entire Simpson’s episode will be in the form of Legos. The article from The Guardian suggests it’s due to the success of The LEGO movie, but that seems like a quick turn-around. Regardless, it’s also the 550th episode.From The Guardian: Thanks to heavy marketing including an entire ad break recreated with […]
Mike Lester’s comic Mike Du Jour will start running in the Florida Times-Union in March – which is also his home paper. They gave him a front page story on their features page. The humor in ?Mike Du Jour? is observational rather than topical, Lester said, although topical events ? such as the Winter Olympics […]
There’s been some changes in the comic line-up at the Charlotte Observer. They picked up Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug and being a local, they gave him some press.
ABC News interviews 92 year-old Al Jaffee who is still drawing the iconic MAD Magazine fold-in feature which is celebrating 50 years in the magazine.Also discussed – the fold-in that didn’t run (skip to 1:17)
I saw this story last year, but doesn’t look like I linked to it. Background: Army Sgt. Kimberly Walker, a big fan of SpongeBob SquarePants, was murdered last Valentines Day. Her family erected a large SpongeBob SquarePants headstone over her grave site. The cemetery initially approved the headstone, but after complaints they later removed them. […]
Since this arc on Betty has just started, I’ll give you both yesterday’s and today’s. Such a deal.Betty is a kind of stealth strip because it doesn’t get a lot of chatter and it doesn’t often knock you onto the floor with laughter, but it regularly sneaks up behind you with intelligent humor and commentary.I’m sure this […]
Johnny Hart’s B.C. turns 56 today. I’m surprised that this is the first time I’ve seen the first strip.
My thanks to Keith Brown for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist this week. Keith is the creator of the webcomic Wages of Sin. The strip was a 2013 winner in Cartoonist Studio “Best Strip” contest. Keith’s strip is updated frequently on Facebook. Make sure you “Like” his page to get the strip on your wall each […]
Liza Donnelly, via a cartoon at the Nib, raises an issue that I’ve been scratching my head over for about 30 years, but which now has taken on a new dimension under the relatively new term “slutshaming.”That is, back when Madonna appeared on the scene in the 80s, she was more of a puzzler than […]
When one reads most online bios of Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, most start with a birth date and then quickly jump to his time at Kenyon College where he drew cartoons for the college paper. But before Kenyon College, Bill contributed cartoons to his high school newspaper and yearbook. To my knowledge, these […]
I like this Kevin Siers panel for the message itself but I’m particularly impressed with his ability to make good use of an odd and viral news story.The story itself is as bizarre in its way as the phenomenon Siers uses it to comment on.With regards to the actual zoo, it took a lot of […]
(Kal Kallaugher) (Matt Bors)A fascinating pair of commentaries from a couple of my favorite commentors.I’m having trouble figuring out why we seem so reluctant to take Karzai at his word when he tells us to get out.Maybe we’re expected to ignore it; Maybe the State Department recognizes it as some of that same posing we in […]