One of the founding principles of this blog is that a good cartoon spurs not just laughter, but thought. Today’s lesson is on how little the intent of the cartoon directs the tone of those thoughts.If you read the comments (and this is one of the few web sites where they won’t send you into […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has announced that he’s taking another hiatus from his daily comic strip to work on the second season of his online sitcom Alpha House. He’ll continue producing the Sunday strip. The daily replacement strips will start in papers on March 3.From the Boston Globe: “It’s a wonderful opportunity, but as I […]
Last month, I linked to news that a Powerpuff Girls cover was being pulled because some felt the art was overly sexual by depicting them in skintight mini-skirts and white stockings. The artist, Mimi Yoon is defending the piece on her Facebook page. my objective was to illustrate modern, pop cultured, SASSY (not sexy), and […]
The UCLA Communications Studies has posted the audio of a speech given by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz in 1971. Unfortunately, even though delivered as a video, it’s only the audio – we don’t see any of the cartoons he draws for the audience.
Mike Lynch revisits the topic of cartoonists using gag writers. Historically, it was much more common than today. Some think using a gag writer is the equivalent of using steroids – a true cartoonist should do both the writing and the art. I used to be squarely in that camp, but I’d much rather see […]
Yesterday I wrote of how what you miss about people once they are gone is the small moments, the casual conversations, the trivial stories. And this morning’s Bizarro touches off a memory of one of those things, with what is, on the surface, just an amusing pun.A type of gag I like, by the way, […]
A hearty thanks to Mike Peterson for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. If you didn’t get a chance to visit his Comic Strip of the Day blog, just head over there now. Of all the comic commentary blogs, and there are a LOT of them, Mike’s is certainly at or near the top. He […]
Pardon the blasphemous headline, but it wrote itself, so I’m completely absolved of any offense. Now on to the news…From Cartoon Brew: As anticipated, Warner Bros.? The LEGO Movie, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, destroyed the box office with a $69.1 million (estimated) opening. Not only did it become WB?s biggest animated opening […]
Hundreds showed up to a ballroom in Oakland to offer their respects to Wee Pals creator Morrie Turner who passed last month.From the Contra Costa Times: Hundreds of fans, family members and friends dropped by the ballroom of Claremont Hotel on Sunday afternoon to say their final goodbyes to the well-known Oakland-born cartoonist. Turner broke […]
The headline tells the story: I came across three comics in the last 24 hours that seem to me particularly excellent, each for different reasons. Jack Ohman — who moved from the Pacific Northwest to Sacramento a little over a year ago — uses a spare, economic style of storytelling that makes this piece extraordinarily touching, […]
It’s not considered hip to like the Lockhorns, but, while it is tragically bereft of misanthropic talking animals, it’s a consistently funny strip and John Reiner’s art is, to play with the phrase, “simply” superb.Not being an artist, I don’t know if it’s harder to create intricate detail or to work smoothly in a plain […]
Matt Bors leads off today with a relevant point in an irrelevant controversy: When did we start demanding that our artists, writers and actors provide not only entertaining work but perfect lives?He’s right. If you start going through the personal lives of creative geniuses, you’re going to uncover a mountain of ick in some cases […]
It’s been teased before when The Complete Cul de Sac book was announced, but now it’s official. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will host two exhibits of original work by Richard Thompson and Bill Watterson. The exhibit opens March 22 (with an opening reception on March 21) and continues through August 3. Bill’s […]
Between Friends! creator Sandra Bell-Lundy is celebrating 20 years in syndication with a previous four self-syndicating her strip. This month is the 20th anniversary of syndication for Between Friends! Actually, I’ve been creating my strip for 24 years. From 1990 to 1994, I self-syndicated my comic to a number of southern Ontario newspapers: The St. […]
The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in businesses’ demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative to what would have occurred otherwise rather than as an […]