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CSotD: A deceptively concise posting

by Mike Peterson 6 comments November 23, 2013

Nothing smells like vict’ry more than napalm in the morningChasing Charlie from his lair so very far away The Chuckle Bros got a chuckle with this, mostly in light of the futile caption. I think they seriously underestimate Broadway’s hunger for overproduced, overpriced, unlikely adaptations.In any case, their timing is excellent, given that Spiderman just closed […]

NYT Reviews painting apps and styluses

by Alan Gardner 5 comments November 22, 2013

The New York Times looks at three different drawing apps and how well the work with a stylus. When he introduced the iPhone and iPad, Steven P. Jobs asserted the touch-screen devices didn?t need a stylus because humans come with 10 great touch-screen controllers sticking out of our palms: fingers. He was proved right, and […]

Maggie Thompson comic collection heading to auction, estimated value $1 million

by Alan Gardner 1 comments November 22, 2013

From the Huffington Post: Comic book collector and industry legend Maggie Thompson of Wisconsin has decided to put some 500 pieces of her personal collection up for auction over the next few months. The first wave alone includes the first issue of “The Avengers,” ”Journey Into Mystery” No. 83, which features the first appearance of […]

CSotD: Pictures of the Pain

by Mike Peterson 1 comments November 22, 2013

Pat Oliphant isn’t generally known for sensitivity, but he has come up with one of the few JFK Assassination Anniversary cartoons that seem content to remember the moment.Yes, a fairy tale. But as true as anything else being said, and truer than most of what’s out there.Maybe you had to be there, and fewer than […]

Michael Maslin reviews New Yorker cartoons from the 1940s, 1960s

by Alan Gardner 2 comments November 21, 2013

New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin looks at a few New Yorker cartoon collections from half a century ago. Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research ? as much as the internet allowed, which wasn?t a heck of a lot ? and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My […]

Spider-Man musical to close with $60 million loss

by Alan Gardner 4 comments November 21, 2013

The New York Times reports that the Spider-Man musical is set to close in January with a record-breaking loss of $60 million. The show has only been open for three years. Several investors said they were reeling from the closing announcement, made on Monday night. Three said they have not been paid back anything during […]

A BIG, BIG thanks to everyone!

by Alan Gardner 9 comments November 21, 2013

I went to bed last night $30 shy of $8,000 (I’m also counting a $150 analog donation that came in the mail) in this year’s Fund The Daily Cartoonist drive. Somewhere in the last 30 minutes another donation came in that pushed the total above $8,000. Considering that this one campaign total surpasses all of […]

CSotD: “You can’t find a decent job anywhere.”

by Mike Peterson 2 comments November 21, 2013

Mike Peters comments on the story of the Canton, Ohio, Wal-Mart whose employees are holding a food drive for each other.Clay Bennett has also weighed in on the topic.The drive, according to the company, was started by “associates” (nobody has “employees” anymore) not for the ongoing needs of their fellow workers, but, rather, to provide […]

Profiled: Zapiro pushes boundaries in South Africa

by Alan Gardner 0 comments November 20, 2013

Fox News profiles Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”): Shapiro, 55, has made a career of stripping away taboos and artifice with satire. Sometimes he gets sued, most notably by President Jacob Zuma. The Mandela cartoon in April for The Times, a South African newspaper, was one of his gentler efforts and a commentary on a nation that […]

Last day to get my “Best Of” ebook

by Alan Gardner 1 comments November 20, 2013

Just a reminder if you’ve not yet donated or even if you have, any new donors this week or if any of the previous donors increase their donation by $10, I’ll send you the eBook I’m creating containing my best cartoons. Most of you probably haven’t seen my work.Here’s a sample of my cartoons.Editorial cartoons […]

Last day of Fund The Daily Cartoonist!!

by Alan Gardner 1 comments November 20, 2013

Today is the last day to contribute to Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign. My goals for 2014 is to make a dramatic improvement in the delivery and volume of news of interest. You can read how I’m specifically going to do that on the campaign website. It’s going to take a significant sustained investment of […]

CSotD: I’ve been dreading this day

by Mike Peterson 0 comments November 20, 2013

I saw this 50th Anniversary coming up several months ago and began to dig the shelter. I knew what was coming: A deluge of goofball, paranoid idiocy, raised to the level of attempts to “answer the questions.”Robert Ariail says it. The eternal flame, as in “flaming and gaping.”I was in eighth grade when Kennedy was […]

53 releases Pencil stylus for Paper app

by Alan Gardner 6 comments November 19, 2013

53 – the company that created the Paper app for iPad have now released Pencil – a stylus for their app.Check out this video: Pencil / Think With Your Hands from FiftyThree on Vimeo.I’ve used Paper before, but mostly for sketching. Maybe someone who uses the app in a more serious fashion can tell us […]

Signe Wilkinson draws cartoon about being mugged last Sunday

by Alan Gardner 3 comments November 19, 2013

Signe Wilkinson was mugged at gun-point last Sunday about a block from her house. The mugger demanded her purse and claimed to have a gun which Signe believed to be true. The purse the mugger made off with was actually a canvas bag that Signe was carrying filled with pens, paper and sketches of her […]

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