Amy Scott reporting for Marketplace looks at students pursuing a degree in the arts, racking up debt, and staring at an uncertain future. MICA senior Erica Sadler stopped by the food truck for a quick $4 quesadilla on her way from a work-study job. She’s an interdisciplinary sculpture major, which includes performance art and installation. […]
Amidst the predictable jokes about leftovers, and the equally predictable tee-hee-hee’s over Black Friday shopping (Anyone going for the Trudy Trifecta? “Out at midnight, overdrew the checking account, crumpled the fender pulling into the garage afterwards”? Nobody? Maybe next year!) , some cartoonists have serious comments to make. Like a lot of newspaper-based editorial cartoonists, Derf […]
Burkina Faso’s Damien Glez salutes a satiric take on “poverty porn” that has gone viral among those who care about Africa or about assistance to the Third World in general. Poverty Porn is the use of heart-tugging images to excite (and that’s the right word) compassion in potential donors. The origin of the phrase itself is a […]
Today’s Zits scores in large part for its delightful synchronicity with yesterday’s “Leave it to Beaver” spoof. It so happens that my rant on the misappropriation of the show to symbolize a brain-dead era is not my only oh-god-here-he-goes-again Andy-Rooney-style use of “The Cleaver Family As Society Bellwether.”I have an entirely other rant about clothing and […]
Tom the Dancing Bug does a nice takedown on Bill O’Reilly’s transparent outing of the real objections to Obama’s re-election: That it signifies the end of the “white establishment” (his words) as the guardians of “traditional America.”And Bolling only had to use the tool that O’Reilly had handed him, which was an allusion to the […]
I hope all my American readers are enjoying a day off from work and some time with family, and, if it isn’t Thanksgiving where you live, please remember that every day is a good day to enjoy a few brews with your nearest and dearest.This classic, claiming to be “Visiting The Grandparents,” by William Elder, […]
It’s Thanksgiving here in the US and so I won’t be updating the blog until Monday. Enjoy your time with family. Be safe if you’re traveling. –Alan
The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman is being sued again. From Wired (UK): The comic teamed up with the company that owns the Papyrus chain of card and gift shops, Recycled Greetings, to sell paper greeting cards of his web comics via the The Oatmeal’s web store, along with other novelty items. But that caught the attention […]
Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors’s Kickstarter campaign to fund a book collection of his work (Life Begins At Incorporation: cartoons and essays) has been fully funded. At this writing (with seven hours left) he’s raised just under $35,000. Having exceeded the original $20,000 goal, he’s promised a second book for those who contribute another $17 to […]
Pardon My Planet on what kids really need to learn to be successful in the workforce: The difference between what the boss says and what the boss wants. I wish this cartoon wasn’t funny, but it is.In fact, it made me think of a column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, and, when I went […]
Unlike many books I receive for review, I sought this one out. When I contributed to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, one of the rewards was an autographed book and I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get a autographed book collection from Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly.I would argue if there was any cartoonist […]
A recent cartoon by The Guardian’s editorial cartoonist Steve Bell is being attacked as antisemitic. The cartoon depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a puppet-master controlling Foreign Secretary William Hague and Tony Blair.A complaint has been lodged with Press Complaints Commission alleging the cartoon as “plainly antisemitic.” The Community Security Trust, a British charity […]
A video flashback from Michael Jantze: Tom Gammil, host of the NCS Reuben Awards, and I came up with a Las Vegas send up to announce the nominees for the Reuben Award, Outstanding Cartooning of the Year. Here’s Stephan Pastis, Tom Richmond and Brian Crane being forthright and magnanimous. Such gentlemen!
Australian cartoonist David Pope was honored with this year’s highest award given by the Australian Cartoonists’ Association: the Gold Stanley Award for cartoonist of the year. He was also honored in two other categories best caricaturist and best editorial political cartoonist. David is the editorial cartoonist for The Canberra Times.From The Canberra Times: Association president […]
Matt Bors on the lack of substance in American news coverage, and the lack of background with which we face the world.I was streaming an Eddie Izzard concert the other day and was struck by a very funny throwaway line. He was saying something or other about the world and paused to interject, “You do […]