The Town of Paradise Valley is raising funds to erect a 9-foot bronze statue to honor Bil Keane. The statue, entitled “Giddy-Up Daddy”, was designed by sons Jeff and Glen.Here’s a video tribute that was produced for the maquette unveiling.If you want to donate, head over here. Donations are tax deductible.
A Lee Judge cartoon published in the Kansas City Star nearly a month ago has sparked outrage after going viral last week. The cartoon depicts a grave site with a headstone labeled, “American Sniper” with a caption that reads, “If only there had been a good guy with a gun around.” The cartoon was a […]
Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist and Prickly City creator Scott Stantis has been doing web casts and talking to other cartoonists. In this latest one, he talks to Scott Meyers, creator of the web comic Basic Instructions.
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee on the gap between sustainability and marketing.When I was first married and back at college finishing up my degree — my grandfather having pointed out that I would waste less time doing that than I would waste in the future explaining why I hadn’t — we rented a house […]
I was slow to embrace the super hero movie genre, but I’m in line for this one. May 3rd.
If it worked as easily in real life as it does at On The Fastrack, I’d have been a video star at one paper.As it was, management did have someone go around identifying and marking spots for cameras and we all got appropriately indignant and paranoid, but it never happened.I suspect they discovered that it […]
Interesting day to see how some familiar gags can be repackaged: Monty has been on a trip through time and has, yet again, found true love. I know this is not breakthrough comedy, that the gag is a variation on all sorts of others, but there is something about Jim Meddick’s artwork and timing that […]
Luann is an odd mix of stasis and evolution.Over the near-30 years of its existence, Greg Evans has periodically moved the strip forward from its roots when Luann was a little kid to the current period, in which she is a high-school junior. These moments have included changes in both her age and some plot […]
xkcd is right, of course.And it won’t make a damn bit of difference.Back at the dawn of time, O Best Beloved, there was a man whose name I have forgotten but who was an acknowledged expert on such things, who insisted that there was actually no such thing as a computer virus, and that it […]
Wired.com is reporting that Chris Onstad’s Achewood is shopping the webcomic as a TV animated show to networks. Although some familiar plots from the webcomic would make their way into the small-screen adaptation, Onstad says the bulk of the content potentially slated for the cartoon format will be all-new. Currently, the creator is looking at […]
Pat Oliphant is one of the angriest recovering Catholics around, but, judging from what else is being said in cartoons and elsewhere, this is one of those cases where the insiders — even the disaffected ones — get it right and everyone else flails.Oliphant presents us today with a brilliant metaphor.To start with, in the […]
Earlier last year, the Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Kho, president of operations and business development, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to eliminate ads from their website. One of the stretch goals was to create a contest to find a worthy up-and-coming cartoonist. The contest, which was already […]
While newspapers fight for audience by removing all traces of uniqueness, character and community from their pages — this past week, the Record (no longer “The Bergen Record”) laid off editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies after 22 years — the late cartooning legend Herblock continues to support the form with an award each year from the […]
Here’s a gem from a 1986 20/20 interview with The Far Side creator Gary Larson.Via Tyson Cole
Drew Sheneman with a worthwhile comment on the meat scandal.He’s got a point, of course, and one branch of the vegan movement has to do with the moral/emotional implications of eating animals. Sentimental stories of 4H projects and Wilbur the Pig aside, farm children have for centuries come of age by learning to differentiate between […]