Al Plastino, best known for his work with DC Comics and the Superman comic, has passed away at the age of 91. Mark Evanier breaks the news and writes the first obit. Al was a diverse artist who also worked on the comic strip Nancy and there’s a story that he was the artist in […]

Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]

Bone creator Jeff Smith has been teasing the release of a new webcomic for several months now. Yesterday the webcomic went live. Jeff Smith explores the ice age in this all new mythological fiction of the first human to leave Africa. With the completion of his science fiction noir thriller RASL, Jeff Smith returns to […]

Michael Cavna reports on last Friday’s Cartoons and Cocktails gala in Washington DC which raised $20k by auctioning off 160 or so original editorial cartoons. The proceeds goes to the National Press Club.Among the notable pieces auctioned off was Pat Bagley’s cartoon of Malala Yousafzai (see below). The original cartoon was auctioned off earlier this […]

Buried in a story about Gasoline Alley cartoonist Jim Scancarelli contributing to an anti-bullying comic book is news that yesterday, November 24, the comic strip turned 95 years old. Legacy-strip haters are going to hate, but 95 years is an accomplishment.

Fascinating story out of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Tom Engelhardt cartoon that was published in 1963 just hours before President Kennedy was shot. The cartoon depicted Kennedy in Texas, in a box, between shooters. Worst possible timing of a cartoon ever.The newspaper, realizing the cartoon had already been sent out, dispatched their trucks […]

/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]

I read Scott Adams’s latest blog post regarding his father’s death. At the time of the writing, his father had not yet passed. It’s an angry post against anyone against doctor assisted suicides. You can feel Scott’s raw emotions as you read it. I don’t want this post to be about the morality or politics […]

Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]

Johanna Draper Carlson’s “Comics Worth Reading” currently features a link to a devastatingly insightful review by Chris Sims of the new collection, “Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years,” which sent me back to (A) a conversation I had recently and (B) yesterday’s criticism of modern self-absorption.Start with this bit of child-development psychological whatchamacallit:Certain dirty jokes remain […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]