Shaenon Garrity has a great article in The Comics Journal about the recent experience of Rachel Dukes, whose cartoon went viral through various social media sites. The disturbing thing was how many times her signature and URL were scrubbed from the cartoon before being posted. With a little detective work, Dukes determined that the strip […]
Let’s warm up with a trio that assumes you are old and can remember ancient times:Juxtaposition of the Day(Piranha Club) (Arctic Circle) (Little Dog Lost)There have been cartoons about how the “remote” back in analog days consisted of telling your kid to change the channel, but the frequent need to adjust the vert hold and […]
Yesterday I laid out a pretty good rant in anticipation of cartoons rather than reaction to them. As it turns out, the first to land was this Nick Anderson piece, which reflects a slapdown seen at least on my corner of Facebook and presumably his adjacent one.It’s particularly brilliant because of the convergence of the […]
I’ve seen something like this before, but it’s always fun to see.Via LaughingSquid
Ethan Gach writing at Forbes: Unlike when Apple debuted the original iPad for $499 in 2010, the market is now saturated with models at every price point, including a range economy tablets like the Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD, and iPad Mini. As the technology has become cheaper, it?s also become more widespread, with tablet […]
The National Cartoonists Society is selling T-shirts. These shirts were designed by Sergio Aragones, Patrick McDonnell, Matt Groening and Graham Nolan for San Diego Comic-Con. You can buy them off their website. Proceeds from the sales go to NCS Art Student Scholarships. Prices start at $25.
Brian Fies is very high on my list of good friends I’ve never met, but that’s not why I’m plugging his newest project here. Well, except to this extent:In 2004, when Brian was working on his first book, Mom’s Cancer, he posted pages online and solicited input from the gang at rec.arts.comics.strips.That was not particularly […]
Exciting news for editorial cartoonist Steve Breen. Hollywood bidding wars usually involve high-profile names and entities like J.K. Rowling or Voltron robots. But the most recent battle over film rights happened over the U-T?s own political cartoonist, Steve Breen. On Friday, Universal Pictures won a bidding war to produce a comedy based on Breen?s upcoming […]
After reading this review of the Monoprice Tablet Monitor, I’m intrigued as a viable replacement for the Wacom Cintiq. Has anyone used this tablet? Looks like it’s sold out on the store. Wacom has long held the crown as the top maker of graphics tablet hardware, but they have not iterated upon the technology in […]
Yesterday, King Features Syndicate rolled out their new Comics Kingdom portal. The new site has 65 comic strips, 25 vintage comics, 9 editorial cartoonists and 16 puzzle features. Part of the roll-out is a promise to add more vintage comics and for paying subscribers the archives extend back to 1995. A few impressions as I […]
Exquisite timing — I spotted Pat Oliphant’s take while my Facebook feed was filling with commentary from SA friends watching the funeral. I disagree only with the universal sense of unpreparedness he suggests, but I’m going to interpret it as a combination of shock and grief rather than a genuine expression of incapacity.There was a […]
I’ve stopped watching the talking head shows on Sunday, but, if I ever feel the urge to start up again, I’m going to consult this Matt Bors cartoon first.For two or three years, I wrote for a magazine that was distributed to Realtors in the Colorado Springs market and basically existed for the sake of […]
Garry Trudeau has become one of the more eloquent and straightforward advocates for military personnel, and if there is a joke to be made today, it is that his willingness to stand up for them is yet another example of his knee-jerk instinct to buck whoever happens to hold power on the Hill and in […]
As noted and/or anticipated yesterday, most of the Mandatory Mandela Cartoons have been at least predictable if not entirely lame. But I certainly like Matt Davies’ contribution, which demands some honesty, integrity and sincerity that we know we’re not ever gonna get.The bulk of statements on Mandela’s death were almost certainly ghosted by aides and […]
Taylor Jones has set the bar high with a plain caricature of Nelson Mandela, which he admits he drew back in March when Madiba’s health was in such dire straits. And there’s nothing wrong with having one ready. We knew the end was not far, and we knew it was going to be an event that required […]