An original hand-colored 1986 Sunday Calvin & Hobbes original has been sold at auction for $203,150 (login required to see final bid amount). The strip was owed by Adam@Home and Red and Rover creator Brian Basset, who told me last September that he acquired the original back in 1986 after agreeing to exchange originals with […]
A few days ago, I blogged about conservative cartoonists who were taking a pragmatic and sensible approach to the “secession” movement.Here’s an even more fundamentally sound look at current politics, from Bob Gorrell, who is usually something of a bomb-thrower.I think it’s a terrific adaptation, and that’s aside from whatever his actual recommendation may be […]
In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller manages to combine a nagging annoyance with a serious problem. One of the basic tools in the cartoonist’s bag of tricks, well-applied.I cannot begin to express how sick I am of hearing about chocolate.And bacon.And zombies.But at least nobody claims to have found health benefits in bacon or zombies.Now, […]
Normally, once I point out an interesting arc, that’s it. Readers follow it if they want to, or they don’t, and I move on.But today’s Pooch Cafe cracked me up, so we’re gonna talk about this arc some more. Sue me. In case you think Paul Gilligan is just being silly, let me tell you that […]
Glenn McCoy is one of those conservatives whom I like when he’s not being political — the Duplex is often featured here — but whose politics make me swallow hard and move on.Not today, and he’s not the only conservative cartoonist who seems to be taking a more insightful view of the supposed secession movement […]
This was a really good day for comics, starting with the latest installment of a Doonesbury arc about Walden College becoming a for-profit school. The fact that there already is a for-profit Walden University is, well, something for someone else to sort out, because Trudeau had the name first, though, granted, not by much.But I like the idea of for-profit […]
A good editor can be your best friend. A good editor helps you get your point across and will not only help you make that point more clearly but can help you avoid getting tangled up in counter-productive side issues.A bad editor can take the joy and panache out of work that needs both to […]
Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg’s Success in Comics seminar is heading to the east coast. The last two events were in Las Vegas. The duo is taking the show to Annapolis, MD February 16-17th. The line up looks top notch too. Chad Carpenter – Third time speaker, creator of Tundra the most widely self-syndicated strips […]
Stephanie McMillan’s graphic journalism book, “The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement” is now available. The book is about the Wall Street Movement, in fact you might have seen parts of it over on Cartoon Movement.
Joe Heller on the keen sense of priorities at work in the halls of Congress.I don’t get all the Petraeus stuff. I mean, I get it in terms of how, when your indiscretions are this indiscreet, you can’t be Head Spook anymore. What I don’t get is all the piling on, and the moonbat conspiracy […]
Hey all,I’m traveling on business. I won’t be updating today, but will try to keep things updated throughout the week – mostly at nights.–Alan
Pooch Cafe is a consistently funny cartoon that — given the public appetite for dog pictures on Facebook and elsewhere — deserves wider publication. Paul Gilligan manages to blend human consciousness and dog behavior in a way that skirts the cliches without being doctrinaire about it, which is to say, I don’t know that he’s […]
I really want to get back into funny comics and frivolous stuff like that, but Rudy Park really was the strip that rose to the top today.Which was a little easier since the King Features site decided not to serve up any cartoons today. You can get some of them by going to rhymeswithorange.com and […]
I like this Tony Auth panel, because it’s more about what happened than it is about spiking the football.The Republicans badly misjudged the country. It wasn’t a landslide, but it was a clear loss and, yeah, they missed the bus, and I don’t think it’s coming back. For the Republican Party, and conservatives in general, […]
From Tom Richmond: For all those who have written me over the years asking if I do personal commissions, looking for a caricature of themselves or their family/friends … now’s your chance! I’ll draw one as part of a Limited Artist’s Edition of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature! A Serious Guide to drawing […]