Every once in awhile, and Lord knows more often than anyone has a right to expect, xkcd comes out with a major project. In the past, it’s been wonderful, gigantic graphics that would drag you, quite willingly, into a long, minute exploration of some fact that matters or at least reveals.This one is smaller and […]
Universal Uclick has announced that it has signed Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Matt Davies.From the press release: Known for his unapologetic voice, the liberal-leaning Davies offers an informed international view and a notably different mindset from many of his American peers. Born in London, England in 1966, Davies moved to the United States in his […]
We’ll start with a recommendation: Brewster Rockit, which is always a good source of dumb jokes, is just starting a superhero spoof to layer over the top of the sci-fi spoof it already is.And the funniest part of today’s strip is that there are plenty of people with precise answers to that question, and they […]
For Father’s Day I made the kids take me to see Man of Steel – on my dime of course. But I’m really glad they did, because it was the Superman movie I had hoped it would be – not cheesy. It had much more sci-fi (spaceships, weaponary, etc) than earlier attempts, but given that […]
Can’t give you an artist’s name on this one, but here’s the site it came from, the Iranian Students’ News Agency. Parts of that site are in English but I don’t think you need a translator for this.Question, rather, is if you need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows? Because, to stay […]
The flood of “summer reading assignment” comics will surface in September, in the guise of “School is about to start and you haven’t touched your …” but, meanwhile, Frazz – ahead of the pack again — presents a nice one as a kickoff to vacation season, with a tip of the hat to the ol’ Briar […]
Can’t relate to this Rhymes With Orange too directly because we only use the ATM, and the dog doesn’t expect food until he sees a person. On the other hand, going to the coffeeshop’s driveup leaves him disappointed indeed, since you don’t get french fries with a cup of coffee, and our routine is that […]
On The Fastrack often features geek humor, but it acknowledges the culture without kowtowing to it. And, in contrast to the wildly popular but still niche-y Penny Arcade, it does so on a level that is accessible to the general public, assuming the general public is somewhat computer literate.Which is to say, those who may […]
Reruns (even ones featuring Rerun) shouldn’t take up valuable real estate on the print comics page, but they’re a lot of fun on the seemingly infinite Web. Especially when they are reruns of things you didn’t see the first time, like this Richard’s Poor Almanac entry, kindly presented a few days early so we can […]
The website Makers has produced a series of videos of Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite on the topic of her strip, her life, balance of work, family, feminism, and traditions.
Retired Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Dick Locher was commissioned by the city of Naperville to create a statue of the city’s founder, Capt. Joseph Naper. Dick is a 40+ year resident of the city and has been doing bronze sculpting for years, so the question of who would create the statue wasn’t a hard choice.From […]
You really don’t need another reason why you should be attending this year’s AAEC convention in Salt Lake City, but convention organizer Pat Bagley is still making awesome things happen. Pat has secured the rights to screen the Herblock documentary, “Herblock: The Black & The White”, I mentioned back in April. The documentary was first […]
Keith Knight on young people and the prison industry.I’ll leave the racial aspects of things in his hands, except to remember that it was Richard Pryor who said of the legal system: “You go down there looking for justice; that’s what you find: Just us.”I certainly agree that we bust kids for stuff we used to […]
I like Nick Anderson’s cartoon, but I don’t take it literally.While I applaud the artistry of tying together a couple of threads in our deteriorating democracy, to take it literally would be a bit overwrought.Then again, I don’t think you should wait for an immediate, personal threat before you question what the hell is going […]
The New York Times profiles Khalid Albaih, a cartoonist living out of Qatar, who’s become very influential in the Middle East. Lanky, with thick glasses and a nerdy air, Mr. Albaih does not look the part of a rebel. By day, he works in multimedia for the Qatar Museum Authority here, sitting behind a 27-inch […]