Jason Sacks posts 10 thoughts about Jack Kirby’s career. The rise of the Marvel Universe in the 1960s was basically unplanned It’s striking how haphazardly everything developed at Marvel in the 1960s. Few things were ever planned in any detail; especially the brilliant Fantastic Four run. As Hatfield reports, the Silver Surfer first appeared because […]
Are memes the new editorial cartoons? Maybe. At least based on this trending graph on searches on Google on the terms ‘political cartoons’ (blue) and ‘meme’ (red), it would appear those with staff jobs need to put aside their pen and ink and find more photos of kittens saying the darndest things.
If God were a computer, undoubtedly, He’d blow up the world, because that would be the “answer.” — Phil OchsWell, God isn’t a computer and so there are other, more nuanced and compassionate answers to the problems of the world, but, so far, as Rob Rogers suggests, the most promising pontiff since John XXIII is […]
Ann Telnaes doesn’t do a lot of non-animated cartoons these days — or at least not where I can find them — but, besides her current, animated work, she keeps a modest blog that is worth visiting and which she illustrates most times with something small, perhaps clipped from an earlier piece.So I was delighted […]
The fine folks over at GoComics have been doing these one-hour online Q&A sessions each month for a while, but I’ve done a bad job reporting it. For August, the cartoonists who will be in the hot seat include Rob Harrell (Adam@Home and Big Top), Darrin Bell (Candorville), Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler (Gray Matters), […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has announced a contest for the best comment (funny and non-snarky) on four different online platforms where his strip runs. Up for grabs is a personalized original drawing of an Edison character (your choice). This is an eight week contest with winners announced every Monday.The four […]
And now it’s Derf Backderf’s turn: “Coach wants to see you. Bring your sketchbook.”This is the last “The City” strip, at least, the last one in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which joins other Advance Publications newspapers next week in going to a four-day-a-week home delivery schedule, and not only eliminates the section his weekly strip […]
Good news! Sedition charges against Singapore based cartoonist Leslie Chew have been dropped. Chew, 37, had been arrested in April this year for alleged sedition in relation to a cartoon which was posted on his comic series “Demon-cratic Singapore” on Facebook on March 27. He was released on bail on April 21. AGC said following […]
The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon is donating millions of dollars to charity after being given prognosis of terminal colon cancer with three to six months to live.From Hollywood Reporter: THR: You said to Marc Maron on his podcast that you’ve been aggressive about the giving you’ve done, that you are giving most of all you […]
Joe Macare of Truthout interviews editorial cartoonist Matt Bors.From Truthout: JM: Your work, as the book showcases, includes editorial cartoons, graphic journalism and prose essays. Can you talk a little about why you do each type of work? MB: I consider comics a writing job and I’ve always wanted to stretch out and make longer […]
(Saturday) (today)Deflocked begins a back-to-school arc before anyone else dares, and for a good reason: Jeff Corriveau is riffing on the disappearing summer vacation.It’s getting hard to keep track of the school year. When I was growing up in New York, school started shortly after Labor Day but then dragged on into the third week […]
Rudy Park on the phenomenon of the partisan press.My only quibble is in the last panel: The president’s middle name is only used by his enemies, more or less the same people who were convinced that FDR was Jewish rather than Dutch Reformed, with the difference that Roosevelt didn’t have any Jewish relatives and Obama […]
Pajama Diaries on the nonsense of “healthy snacks” in an unhealthy world, or, as I like to think of it, the persistence of comforting delusions.Dear-lord-forty-years-ago, I belonged to a food co-op in Denver that, when we joined, was one of those co-ops where you ordered your three pounds of raw cheddar, your two pounds of […]
Chris Britt notes the expanding range of the right-wing’s appeal to bigotry, and, unlike others who have marveled at the phenomenon, he does not assume that they are painting themselves into a corner.Nor does he play the game of “They all do it,” in which we throw up our hands over the perfidy of Congress, […]