The board of the Herblock Foundation has voted to expand the eligibility for entrants for the Herblock Prize to include cartoonists whose work appears in monthly newspaper and magazines. The stated eligibility now states: “The Herblock Prize contest is open to any newspaper, magazine, wire service or syndicate cartoonist for editorial or political cartoons published […]
The HERBLOCK: The Black & the White documentary premiered on HBO last night, but will re-air several more times in the next two weeks. I saw portions of the film when it screened in Salt Lake City during the AAEC convention. It’s a fair documentary and worth your time.From the description: This feature documentary traces […]
One of the disadvantages of Facebook specifically and the World Wide Tubes in general is that it subjects us Yanks to having overseas friends ask “What is wrong with you people?”Mostly when we shoot each other.Which I think means that they have come to grips with our imperialistic, xenophobic nation-building attacks on other nations and other […]
Justin Moyer makes the argument that Google should stop Google Doodles: Since Google began Doodling in 1998, it?s aligned its brand with some of the greatest human beings who ever walked the Earth, borrowing the pixie dust of Gandhi, MLK and others. In a role once reserved for the U.S. Postal Service and its stamps, […]
Bill Amend, the creator of Foxtrot, has coded and released a math quiz app called “The Jason Fox Math Quizzer“. The motivation for the app is rekindling a rusty skill – programming.Bill writes on his blog: One evening last January I decided that my 2013 New Year?s resolution would be to reawaken that happy younger […]
Malaysian editorial cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, better known simply as Zunar will be visiting and lecturing at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville. Zunar has been a target of Malaysian government censorship since 2009. In 2010 he was arrested and charged with sedition.Registration and attendee.
There have been a lot of anti-NSA cartoons, but I like this Matt Bors piece because it is based on uncertainty, which seems to be about the only sure thing in the president’s recent offer of reforms.The problem I’m having, not just with the NSA but pretty much across the board, is figuring out where […]
This week’s sponsor is King Features Syndicate. King Features just launched a complete revamp of their DailyInk comic portal under their Comics Kingdom branding. It’s a great improvement. You can read all of their comics for free or if you sign up for their Royal subscription plan, you get an ad-free experience, comics delivered via […]
(Clay Bennett)(Joel Pett)At the time of Nelson Mandela’s death, it struck me that South Africans see Mandela has having greatly improved their nation for everyone, while Martin Luther King is seen in the US as having helped “his” people, which essentially means he failed.Just as “Memorial Day” has gone from mourning our war dead to […]
I don’t have a lot to say about Julia Wertz’s cartoon-filled narrative, “The Fart Party’s Over,” and it’s not a short read, so I’m going to explain why I’m sending you there and then … well, then I’m just going to send you there.It’s very compelling, it’s very well done, and I don’t know if you’ll […]
At last, a day when nothing momentous distracts from the fun of comix!Although I suppose I could spin a rant about astroturf fads from Liza Donnelly’s announcement that she’s getting off the kale bandwagon.When I say “astroturf fads,” I’m not commenting on how the stuff tastes, though I’d rather eat collards or mustard greens or […]
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Universal Studios has announced that they will release a Despicable Me 3 in the summer of 2017 and a remake of the animated Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Despicable Me, I can handle. Another remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas? Bahumbug!
I’ve mentioned my frustration with the attitude so well lampooned by Kevin Siers today.There have been a spate of cartoons taking the opposite tack — accusing Obama and Kerry of foolishness or worse for negotiating rather than threatening, apparently hoping for a chance to send more of our young people to die in the sand.Nor […]
The drawing desk of Jim Borgman.The fine folks over at King Features posted photos of some of their talent’s studios. I love photos like these. What stands out to me is the lack of the drafting tables. You know, the old tilted tables where you’d also dip a brush into an ink bottle and try […]