Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with their pretend-bargains and ginned-up gotta-shop hype, have ended and yet Christmas and portions of Hannukah remain.I recently posted some shopping suggestions for comics fans here and then here, and, if you didn’t look then and you’re shopping now, well, there they are.Now some additional possibilities for shoppers who haven’t […]
As I teased earlier today, King Features Syndicate is launching a new comic portal called Comics Kingdom. The go-live date is tomorrow. The new portal will replace their DailyInk comic subscription service. Paying Comic Kingdom subscribers will enjoy an ad-free experience, deeper archives not available to non-subscribers. Non-subscribers will still be able to read their […]
Editorial cartoonist Donna Barstow is allegedly asking Google to delist sites that have posted her cartoons – most notably a particular site that posted it to critique it. From Boing Boing: Now, nearly 18 months on, Barstow apparently used Google’s takedown tool to request that it remove links to former federal prosecutor Ken “Popehat” White’s […]
King Features Syndicate has announced that they are launching a new public comic portal called Comics Kingdom this week. This new site will replace their DailyInk website and service and include a deeper archive, more puzzles and expanded vintage comic offerings. You will also be able to search for specific comics or comics related to […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond continues to roll out new versions of this great caricature book The Mad Art of Caricature!: A Serious Guide to Drawing Funny Faces. The new release is an eBook version for tablet devices and is priced at a $9.99. He writes on his blog that he’s set aside fears of […]
Nick Galifianakis is reporting on Facebook that Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson took a tumble yesterday and broke his hip. He’s going into surgery later today. From Nick: Hello cartoon and comic fans. I’m trying to generate a tsunami of good thoughts for the only actual genius I know (I’m apologize to whoever else […]
Rachel Dukes has done a sort-of-study of a cartoon which she posted in two places: One resulted in several “shares” with her credit at the bottom and one was quickly picked up and shared elsewhere, but with the credit cropped out.The one without credits got a lot more views: 588,310 views, compared to 81,595 views for the […]
Let me warm up before going into full rant:Red and Rover is always enjoyable, a pleasant nostalgia piece about being a kid and having a dog, but the past week has been particularly sweet, as Brian Basset made it a daily reflection on why Red is thankful for his dog. This bravura Sunday is above and […]
Another tax cut for the wealthy Tom the Dancing Bug echoes my thoughts on lotteries.In fact, as I was pulling it out of the vaults, I just realized that, a week from today, this Runyonesque commentary on the topic will be a quarter century old. Two observations: (A) It was a relatively fresh take on […]
The gag in today’s “In the Bleachers” is that there are plenty of seats left, except for one low corner of the end zone cordoned off for people who don’t want drunken boobs sitting behind them. And in front of them. And to either side of them. Which brings us to this grim panel from Cartoon […]
I don’t think Tim Eagan is directly referencing the first major pronouncement of Pope Francis’s tenure, but he might as well be. Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy […]
Today in the US is the day we pause to give thanks for our blessings, eat too much food; take naps, watch a parade, a movie, football game and plot out our Black Friday shopping (which may or may not actually start on Thursday this year). For the rest of you, it’s a Thursday.As usual, […]
Sunday’s Family Guy episode revolved around the death of the Brian character. There’s been a goodly size reaction from fans – over 91,000 fans have signed a petition asking that the character be brought back. One blogger reports that the reaction has caused conversations over at Fox about creating a spin-off show for the Brian. […]
The National Cartoonists Society announced that Bunny Hoest and John Reiner will be honored with the Gold Key Award at next year’s Reuben Award Weekend and thus becoming inducted into the NCS Hall of Fame.From the announcement: Bunny Hoest is the writer of several cartoon series, including The Lockhorns, Laugh Parade and Howard Huge, all […]