Over the weekend, I was offered the opportunity to add an original Jeff MacNelly Shoe comic strip as an incentive. I thought I had put the donation value high, but apparently not too high – it was claimed within an hour. I’m jealous of the person who claimed it, but immensely happy – it’s going […]
The New York Times looks at the recent trend of politically based television shows – specifically Alpha House created by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. In the instances of ?House of Cards? and ?Alpha House,? they are even presenting the same general subject matter, albeit taking different approaches ? ?House of Cards? is a whodunit-to-whom drama […]
Sheldon with a literary approach to the slippery-slope argument, or, from a slightly different perspective, the “How did we get here?” question.As to the specifics here, I remain unconcerned about the massive collection of data, simply because, as said I’ve expressed several times, it’s self-defeating on their part and has been self-defeating pretty much forever. […]
Click to see larger viewOf the cartoonists of the 20th century, Jeff MacNelly was a very influential one. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning – his first in 1972 when he was only 24. He was also twice awarded the National Cartoonists Society’s top price The Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Keith Knight for today’s Knight Life. I was afraid it was just me.I like the ACLU. But a couple of years ago, they offered a bumpersticker that said something about upholding and defending the Constitution in return for a donation, and, since I feel strongly about the Constitution and the donation was simply a cover […]
Rhymes With Orange gets some of its best laughs by pointing out the obvious.I don’t know if this has any connection to our hunter/gatherer roots, in which men were cast into a hostile, competitive world where the nail that stands up gets the hammer, or whether it’s simply perceptual.When I was a kid, my mother […]
I missed this yesterday when it was streaming live, but glad that it’s available. Cartoonists Michael Jantze and Tom Fishburne joined up for a Google+ event to talk about building brands around their creative work.
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston was inducted into the International Women’s Forum International Hall of Fame this last month. Lynn joins several high profile, successful women – a list of who’s who in media, politics, entertainment. In her acceptance speech, Lynn mentions that as a kid she never felt connected with the […]
(INSERT IMAGE: A whole lot of cartoons I’m not featuring here) The laziness and piling on is getting kind of discouraging. I wrote recently about how cheap, unexamined gags perpetuated the “Al Gore lies” phony meme, and, as I said then, there’s really nothing new about baseless partisan attacks, but at least the “Bob Dole is […]
Two days into my Fund The Daily Cartoonist campaign, you’ve helped me raise $1,585 – or about 1/3 of the goal. That tells me a few things:1. I have great friends and readers 2. Maybe I should have set my funding goals higher 3. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m fortunate for […]
Wired magazine has an interesting article on the limits of facial recognition and what the art of caricature could teach those trying to make computer recognition possible. Ben Austen talks to caricature artists Stephen Silver, Jason Seiler, Roger Hurtado, and Court Jones. ?I don?t care how many wrinkles there are around the eye or if […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
Last week I announced major changes for The Daily Cartoonist in the coming year. With that announcement was a mention that I’d be using Indiegogo to run my mostly-annual fund-drive. I launched that campaign today. You can head over there now to see the awesome incentives that have been provided by friends of the blog. […]
Charles Mcgrath of The New York Times profiles Art Spiegelman about his new exhibit “Art Spiegelman?s Co-Mix: A Retrospective” in the Jewish Museum in New York City. The show, ?Art Spiegelman?s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,? is actually the fourth retrospective of his work in less than a year. ?You?ve heard of the Great Depression?? Mr. Spiegelman […]