Dilbert creator Scott Adams has published another book entitled, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Ironically, despite stating in his excerpt, “beware of advice about successful people and their methods”, the book is an Amazon #1 best seller under the categories “career guides” and “motivation.”The Wall Street Journal has posted an […]
Tundra creator Chad Carpenter is raising money through Kickstarter for a live-action comedy/suspense feature-length film based on a graphic novel he and his brother Darin wrote called Moose. The story-line involves a mythological half-man/half-moose and an eclectic cast of small town Alaska characters.Here’s the pitch:
Thought we’d just hit an odd moment the other day, but the end-of-life jokes are still coming. It’s not a trend over at Stone Soup, but rather a story arc, as Evie tries to reassure Val that things are fine. For regular readers, the secondary joke here is a running gag over the fact that everyone […]
Great news! Joel Schroeder’s documentary Dear Mr. Watterson will be in select theaters and available for download through iTunes Music store starting November 15. See the screenings page on their website to see if it will be in a theater near you. A new trailer has been released (see below).
Joe Martin doesn’t do political cartoons, but today’s Willie ‘n Ethel pretty much sums up the current situation and does it better than the “on the one hand, on the other” political cartoonists who simply repeat the same tired “Congress sucks” blame-sharing cartoons. We are media prisoners of the moronically “even-handed” approach to coverage ably […]
Ginger Meggs cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield has posted his review of the Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid drawing tablet after a month of use. Boiling it all right down, do I like drawing on it? The answer is yes. I?ve worked full days on it while traveling for the last four weeks and it means […]
Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan has reportedly been executed by the Syrian government and buried in a mass grave according to Dr. Robert Russell of the Cartoonists Rights Network International. He was arrested earlier this spring for alleged “sedition and disrespecting the head of state” for posting his cartoons on Facebook.From CRNI: We’ve learned that on […]
It’s hardly surprising when two or more political cartoonists come up with the same metaphor. Lord knows, Ted Cruz’s last name brought forth plenty of the same puns and I used the term “brought forth” because “inspired” seems inappropriate.But when a couple of strip writers happen onto the same general concept at random, it can […]
Sunday seemed like the right day to tackle (heh) the issue of racist names, or at least one in particular.It’s a sort of evergreen issue, so some of these cartoons are not from today or even the past week, which is how editorial cartoons are generally handled here. But none of the arguments are new […]
There are so many really bad cartoons about the shutdown — oh, excuse me, the “partial shutdown” — that I feel particularly compelled to feature ones that (A) seem to get it and (B) make a point beyond “gee, this sucks.”(And, yes, I do think it’s extraordinarily silly to add the word “partial” to make […]
Andrews McMeel Publishing and Universal Uclick have announced that they will be releasing for the first time three Calvin and Hobbes ebook collections. The ebook collections include The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, and The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes. All three will be available on November 12, 2013 for $12.99. The […]
This is the way the blog begins, not with a bang but a whimper.I was diagnosed with diabetes a year or so ago, though I’ve now lost enough weight that, if I’d been here then, I wouldn’t have been diagnosed, but it’s like being pregnant: There’s no going back and I have to exercise the […]
If you’re near New York City in the month of November and December, be sure to head over to the Society of Illustrators and check out the exhibit of original New Yorker cartons collected by Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin who are also long-time New Yorker cartoonists.The exhibit runs October 29 through – December 21, […]
The King Features Syndicate archivist profiles Phil Davis who was the artist behind Lee Falk’s Mandrake the Magician. When Lee Falk created MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, he originally thought he might draw the feature as well as write it, but early on he realized his cartooning skills would not be equal to the task. Fortunately, he […]
Ben Zimmer, writing for Slate looks at the history of @#$%! and how it came to represent swear words in comics. In a 1964 article for the National Cartoonist Society, Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker coined the term grawlix, which, after a bit of evolution in its meaning, now refers to the string of typographical […]