Today’s Dilbert doesn’t exactly give me hope, but it at least reassures me that I’m not alone.I can’t always tell when I’m just being an old fart and when the young punks are actually running wild, but we’re nearly two months past the point where Google killed off the iGoogle homepage so they could push […]
Let’s start today’s mixture of reality checks with thankyouthankyouthankyou Wiley Miller, the only cartoonist, it seems, willing to pull back the curtain rather than to reflexively accept “delivery drones” as something non-ludicrous.It seems bizarre that the flood of tiresome, repetitive drone cartoons have all been predicated on the idea that the pipe dream Jeff Bezos […]
I’ve seen a couple of cartoons that riffed on the wall dividing Bethlehem, and then saw a report on Al Jazeera America about the stress the town is under. It reminded me of when I used to do a weekly educational feature on political cartoons, and, specifically, of this piece from December 28, 2005.Normally, I’d […]
I’m starting off with Paolo Lombardi’s obituary cartoon for Mikhael Kalashnihov because it’s exceptional in the true meaning of the word: It’s the exception to the rule that Pearly Gates cartoons are crap.This is actually brilliant, including the fact that he simply shows the closed gates and the sign. No Saint Peter, no God, no […]
As I usually do, I’m taking the last week of the year off for the holidays. I’ll be back at the helm January 2. To each of you, I wish you happy holidays and new year!–Alan
Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis has been awarded this year’s Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. The Berryman award is awarded by the National Press Foundation. Adam will officially receive his award in March during their annual awards dinner.Congratulations, Adam!
Darrin Bell has just branched out into editorial cartoons and I strongly suggest you follow him because he’s swattin’em out of the park faster than I can steal them.I’m really conflicted about this one, because there are an awful lot of cheap and unfair anti-ACA cartoons, as well as cheap and unfair anti-Obama cartoons in […]
Much thanks goes out to John Rose for sponsoring the blog last week. Unfortunately, with the server issues, his week was less than ideal and for that I apologize. I’m going to keep up his ads for a couple more days. If you get a chance, click on through and check out his new book […]
South Florida Business Journal profiles Hugh MacLeod who has carved out a niche in the business world creating inspirational cartoons. I remember seeing Hugh’s early work and it’s cool to see where he’s taken it. MacLeod and his company Gaping Void have landed big corporate clients who seek him out to boost or change their […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Mark Anderson of Andertoons.com is here to talk about how you take your talent for cartooning and market it to the world to make a living! His stuff has been in Forbes, […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Maria Scrivan of the comic “Half Full” joins me to talk about her path to syndication, her most excellent magazine comics work for Parade and MAD, her week-long stint filling in for […]
Start with the dumbest joke of the day and work your way up, that’s my motto. Today’s Argyle Sweater is really dumb, but it’s seasonally dumb, which adds a certain Jenny C. Kwan.I remember Christmas cards where the front was the alphabet, or appeared to be, but when you opened it, it said, “No L,” and […]
It’s fitting, I think, that “Between Friends” would feature the first fruitcake joke to make me laugh in more or less forever.I consider fruitcake jokes to be lazy, one of a number of comic kneejerk gags that kind of straddle the ho-hum of Santa caught in the chimney and gags about animals without opposable thumbs. […]
I would so eat at this place! So, sure, have a laugh at the cartoon, but now — come on, folks — how can we get today’s La Cucaracha into the hands of some restaurant moguls and marketing executives?Because, if I drove past a burger joint and saw on the big plastic sign, “We pay […]
Nice story from NPR about Mike Holmes who draws cartoons featuring himself and his cat in the style of a different cartoonist. Mike Holmes calls these studies “Mikenesses.” They are all his drawings, imagining himself and Ella through the eyes of these other artists. He’s done batches and batches of them, collected here. What they […]