Garry Trudeau has extended his sabbatical into next month but, while the six-day strips are reruns, he’s still producing Sunday Doonesburys.Today’s is intriguing because, as a one-off, it’s a wry commentary on modern families and helicopter parenting, but it also has strong potential to herald a shift, if Mike and Kim really do move from […]
“Cruz” sounds a lot like “cruise.””Cruz missile.” “Cruz control.” ummm … Did I already say “Cruz missile”?And the Great Cartoon Insight Famine continues, buoyed by the endless discovery and rediscovery of that fascinating source of inspiration.We could use a little insight about now, because too many cartoonists, while at least passing up the chance to […]
An editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich that ran in the New York Daily News has caused a bit of a stir for Washington DC residents who say that comparing the Redskins logo to images of the Nazi and Confederate flag is offensive. Here’s WUSA9.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes; With weekly libels and septennial ale, Their wish is full to riot and to rail. – Samuel Johnson So Tim Eagan basically has […]
Personally, I’m happy to see Bill Watterson emerge ever so slightly from seclusion to talk about cartooning. The latest interview is by Jake Rossen of Mental_floss. Where do you think the comic strip fits in today?s culture? Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role […]
China has arrested a blogger and a cartoonist in a crackdown on “rumor-mongering.”From The New York Times: In Beijing, the capital, cartoonist Wang Liming was taken into custody at midnight on Wednesday and has not yet been freed, his friend, Wu Gan, told Reuters by telephone. Wu said police told Wang’s girlfriend they summoned him […]
I went into my various stashes of political cartoons this morning knowing that, with the budget crisis having hit an armistice overnight, a lot of the commentary would be out-of-date even if it was filed yesterday. That may have put me into a mindset whereby timing, fortunate or otherwise, was forefront. Take today’s Tank McNamara, […]
IDW has announced that it will publish an artist’s edition of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. The Artist’s Edition reprints Sparky’s originals in color so that you can see not the finished black and white, but all the scratches, blue pencil marks, erasing and editorial notes. The book is published so that the art is the same […]
For the second time, Slate is holding a contest for best graphic novel and webcomic. Last year’s winners were Chris Ware and Noelle Stevenson. The prize is $1,000 each and this year a sponsor, Copic, is kicking in $250 of art supplies. The judging will be done by Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, faculty […]
PRI picks up on the story of Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan who Cartoon Rights Network International (CRNI) reported as being executed and left in a mass grave. The problem with the story is the only source for the execution is CRNI who has clarified to Michael Cavna that his source is someone close to Akram’s […]
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 […]