And Don Asmussen makes the choosing easy today by executing a flawless triple-play.I’ve mentioned this before, but Bad Reporter sets up a tough challenge for itself, and there are many days when I read it and two are good and then, like watching a long field goal drift to the right, there’s that “doink” as […]

Bob Andelman aka Mr. Media interviews Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. But Anderson was driven to find a way. He worked a day job to pay the bills and spent his pre-dawn and late-night hours drawing comics for whatever customers he could find – magazines and newspapers, sure, but also greeting card companies, trade publications, corporations […]

Clay Bennett lays out the agenda for the next Congress and everyone else as well.And it won’t matter whether the curtain goes up on My Fair Lady or Drat! The Cat!  The critics have spoken before opening night.It’s important to differentiate, not so much between the previous Congress and this upcoming one as between making […]

Transposition of the day: On my Facebook newsfeed, Rico Schacheral had linked these words of wisdom to aspiring writers, to which I commented that writers should quit reading about writing and actually write something. Not that I want to upset the lucrative trade in catering to dreamers, mind you. Not when I have an exercise bike […]

Sherman’s Lagoon operates from a cheerful, light-hearted, relentless predator’s perspective that makes it only natural that one of the strip’s book collections is entitled “Poodle: The Other White Meat.” It also has some of the best Bob Newhart timing on the comics page. Those two factors came together today, as they often do, but even better […]

Drew Sheneman’s Congressional puppy not only draws on the popular Dog Shaming meme, but ties in with a link-and-conversation I had on Facebook yesterday with Owen Dunne. Owen posted this link to an article about research on how on-line comments undermine the content of an article, and, specifically, work against people learning anything about science. I […]

David Horsey’s artwork is so pleasing to the eye that he can get away with some conceptual whiffs. But, when he hits one, it goes a country mile.I particularly like this cartoon for what it isn’t: Too many cartoonists have pointed out that we still have to deal with the debt ceiling, including several who […]

The National Cartoonists Society has expanded the criteria for the new Online Comics Division Award that was introduced last year. The change splits the award into two categories – long form (think online comic books or graphic novels) and short form comics (think comic strips, panels). As they did last year, a panel will evaluate […]

The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is publishing yet another edition featuring the Prophet Mohammed. The anti-establishment publication, which says its cartoonists are atheists who are interested in satirising all religions, claimed it was publishing a profile to learn more about the prophet. “Before you can have a laugh about a character, it’s better to […]

The Heart of Juliet Jones was broken on a fairly regular basis, and the current rerun at DailyInk has her falling for a feckless  (Note to Irish readers: That’s not what it means) architect, who dreams great artistic thoughts but doesn’t seem to ever buckle down and get to what other people would recognize as […]

Over at the Mad Magazine blog, they’ve been having various staffers pick their favorite back covers as part of the magazine’s 60th Anniversary.So far, the choices had been ones that came after I’d stopped reading Mad, but this one is well-imprinted on my memory. The artist is Frank Frazetta, most of whose unequalled, astonishing work is […]

I’ve now seen 61 New Years and, if I were a month older, this would have been #62.The thrill is gone. Both because they really do speed up — 1/60th goes by pretty fast — and because, as Derf notes, 2012 was nothing to build a monument to. On the other hand, Derf himself had a […]

Matt Bors notes a particularly silly recommendation on the topic of mass shootings.It’s hard to come up with a “most ridiculous” approach to the problem, but she’s certainly in the running.However, this argument ties into an issue I’ve got with an entire spectrum of writing and punditry, which is the mileage you can get by […]

On the Sunday when three-quarters of the cartoons are about New Year’s, there’s a fair amount of similar themes, but I particularly liked this contrast:Sinfest is often thoughtful to the point of being enigmatic, but I don’t think this piece is particularly hard to appreciate: It’s kind of nice that it’s a webcomic and thus […]

There have been a lot of responses to the NRA’s response to the Newtown shootings, and it’s been interesting to see both liberal and conservative cartoonists reject the group’s reasoning. Predictably, some on the left are in the “Guns Are Inherently Bad” camp, and their semi-hysterical response really only feeds the fear of an already-paranoid segment […]