There have been more than a few cartoons about Kim Jong Un and his odd threats against the United States, but none of them seemed to quite hit the mark until I came across this one at Cartoon Movement.It probably helps that the cartoonist, Miguel Villalba Sanchez (“elchicotriste”), is Spanish and so doesn’t really have […]
Disney/Pixar has announced it will create a sequel to Finding Nemo called Finding Dory for a November 2015 release. Finding Dory will once again star Ellen DeGeneres. According to the LA Times, the story will set off the California coast about a year after the Finding Nemo story. If you ask me, Dory stole the […]
IDW will release a new Artist Edition collection for Jeff Smith’s Bone series. No date is set yet, but it will be 144 pages and printed at the size of Jeff’s original art (12×7). Also Jeff announced that he’s starting a webcomic set in prehistoric times called, “Tüki Save the Humans”. No launch date on […]
Comic Book Resources used Women’s History Month to highlight female creators in the industry. Creators included: Becky Cloonan, Danielle Corsetto, Joyce Farmer, Marjorie Liu, Ann Nocenti, Trina Robbins, Louise Simonson, and Noelle Stevenson.It’s an interesting series wherein the artists talk about gender roles in comics, gender gaps, and abortion, anger and Underground Comix.
One of the challenges I face in teaching kids to write like journalists is to break them out of the mindset they learn in school: That there is a “right” answer, which is to say, the answer you are expected to come up with, and so the trick to getting good grades is to find, […]
Arsalan Iftikhar, a senior editor at The Islamic Monthly, opines that there are essentially five reasons why artists draw the Prophet Muhammad: The moral of the story is that people will continue to draw cartoons of our beloved Prophet in the future whether we like it or not. For these reasons, it is important for […]
Author and illustrator Mark Pett has released his second picture book today entitled The Boy and the Airplane. It’s a wordless story about a boy who receives a toy airplane as a gift. He plays with it. He loves it. He throws it. In throwing it, he finds it stuck on a nearby roof. The […]
In the current Doonesbury story arc, Zonker is considering joining a strike against the restaurant where he works.Such base ingratitude! Such disloyalty!I’d like to see the Venn diagram of people who don’t want to raise the minimum wage and those who think we spend too much on welfare and other entitlement programs. Based on public […]
It’s been a year since Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin passed. His friend and successor Jack Ohman penned a poignant piece on the anniversary of his death and following his footsteps in Sacramento:I don?t know what I believe in, honestly, in terms of heaven, or hell, or afterlife, or anything. I describe myself as […]
Retail uses April 1 to focus on the obvious.Today is the day you are permitted to play the fool and have it dismissed as “play.” But as Val correctly points out, it may be difficult to distinguish the people who are simply being fools in honor of the day from the large number who train for […]
I’ve got to admit, he’d end up in my cooler, too.Sherman’s Lagoon includes a strong element of conservation and often manages to sneak a fair amount of education on the topic into the gags. But it also exhibits a healthy streak of realism.It’s been quite a few years since I have done any fishing, but […]
In today’s Candorville, Lemont addresses the matter of “executive orders” with a pretty reasonable explanation: Facing a hostile, do-nothing Congress, maybe Obama is forced to issue more executive orders than other presidents.I like the explanation and I think it’s something conservatives should consider.Because they’re not likely to be swayed by someone pointing out that, in […]
AAEC convention host and Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley and author/illustrator/cartoonist Mark Pett and I did a bit of recon work last night hitting several nightlife locations. Despite Utah’s Mormon/squeaky clean image, downtown Salt Lake has a vast array of bars, brewpubs and restaurants with liquor licenses. We’re just trying to be thorough. […]
“Between Friends” is more a “chuckle of recognition” than “burst of laughter” strip, a genre which takes a certain touch of insight if it’s going to rise above “guys always leave the toilet seat up” observational so-whatness. Sandra Bell-Lundy, fortunately, has that touch.Which is to say, sometimes it’s more of a sigh than a chuckle. […]
I’m purposely choosing to ignore one aspect of today’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee to focus on the other.The issue of Facebook privacy gets a bit of a shrug from me because, well, in the language of the law, I have no reasonable expectation of privacy. And there are ways to insulate yourself to […]