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Off topic movie trailer: The LEGO movie

by Alan Gardner 3 comments June 21, 2013

Warner Bros is making a movie with LEGOs. It features big Hollywood names like: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.This trailer screams “wait for DVD”, but it had my 11 year old laughing, so we may have see it before it goes to DVD.

Jack Ohman live blogs cartooning process

by Alan Gardner 1 comments June 21, 2013

Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman live blogs how he came up with a recent cartoon: 11:56:30: Decide to go with an idea, as yet completely unformed, about the NSA. 11:58: Determined to do very elaborate parodies of NSA and other intelligence agency logos that will be really cool. 12:08: After looking at all the […]

Molly Crabapple Sketches Gitmo Pre-Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

by Alan Gardner 1 comments June 21, 2013

From Vice.com: Molly Crabapple secured access and traveled down there for an upcoming issue of VICE, and she sent us these sketchbook drawings of yesterday?s pretrial hearings, which were mostly about how the defense can?t properly represent their client because they don?t have access to classified evidence that will be brought against him and that […]

Are there any editorial cartoonists defending the NSA?

by Alan Gardner 6 comments June 21, 2013

Michael Miner of the Chicago Reader examines why no editorial cartoonist of any political persuasion is defending the NSA: Yet the president made a pretty good point, and I bet a lot of these cartoonists don’t disagree with it. So why didn’t any of them say so? Let me propose an answer. A cartoon attacking […]

CSotD: The Evil Empire and its State

by Mike Peterson 3 comments June 21, 2013

I could probably rant forever on this topic, but, first of all, Tom the Dancing Bug has covered enough bases that I don’t have to (Seriously, check it out: Seven of the Top 15 grossing Broadway shows are live versions of movies), and second of all … Okay, there’s no “second of all,” except maybe […]

Zapiro cartoons on Mandela causing controversy

by Alan Gardner 1 comments June 20, 2013

RFI reports on the issues surrounding several Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) cartoons depicting former president Nelson Mandela who by most accounts is close to passing. The 94 year old apartheid leader is currently in the hospital in stable but serious condition battling a lung infection. RFI reports that many South African’s are struggling with the […]

Profiled: Pat Bagley and the AAEC convention in Salt Lake City

by Alan Gardner 0 comments June 20, 2013

The City Weekly profiles Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley on cartooning in the red state of Utah and the organization of the AAEC convention in Salt Lake City. How did you get a convention of cool cartoonists to come to square old Utah? I remember sitting there in the business meeting and thinking, […]

CSotD: Summertime Blues, junior division

by Mike Peterson 1 comments June 20, 2013

Summer camp story arcs are generally as predictable as “bear trap in the fireplace” cartoons at Christmas, but Deflocked puts its ascerbic POV to good use today.When my oldest was a wee lad, the Colorado Springs Parks & Rec department had a summer program they called “Tot Lot,” which we laughed at because it was […]

CSotD: Pastivity

by Mike Peterson 0 comments June 19, 2013

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 […]

Matt Davies to be syndicated through Universal Uclick

by Alan Gardner 2 comments June 18, 2013

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 […]

CSotD: Learning how to shut up. And deflect bullets. And fly.

by Mike Peterson 0 comments June 18, 2013

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 […]

All things Superman: Smashes records, legal fights, reviews

by Alan Gardner 3 comments June 17, 2013

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 […]

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