The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee certainly isn’t the first strip to use an imaginary campaign for president as a gag during an election year, but the premise of the strip gives it an advantage, since Edison’s combination of brilliance and naivete regularly steers him away from undue knee-jerk cynicism while keeping him from being […]
Candorville is close to being a political cartoon, in that Darrin Bell spends equal amounts of time provoking thought and telling jokes. Today, however, he is letting his geek flag fly, as he often does.And — unintentionally perhaps — proving that we will never invent time travel unless we completely and absolutely change our society first. […]
I often find myself weighing one potential CSOTD over another, and, by the time it comes down to the final two, it generally has as much to do with what I’d rather talk about than which one is technically better done or funnier or more insightful.Today, the question is, from which perspective do I want […]
Susan Karlin looks at the new coffee table book “Totally Mad” about the last 60 years of MAD Magazine for Fast Company magazine. The original Mad men were a group of subversive cartoonists and writers poking fun at anything that carried the slightest hint of authority. Today?s editorial crop have a much harder job–satirizing folks […]
Colin Druce-McFadden writes over at Dvice.com “16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world” So why did Google drudge up a name that most of us never knew? Same-day reporting mentioned that he was an animation pioneer, influenced Walt Disney, was a vaudevillian comedian and things of that nature. To my mind, this hardly […]
D.C. Parsons, a student cartoonist at The Daily Wildcat, has been fired and the student paper is apologizing after running a cartoon (during LGBT History Month) that depicts a father and son laughing at a derogatory joke. The cartoon depicts a father telling his son that if he ever comes out of the closet that […]
South African editorial cartoonist Jeremy Nell (AKA JERM) was fired (contact terminated) from The New Age because his editorial cartoons contained “political judgements or statements.” At least that’s what JERM believes. Others speculate it was because his cartoons often poked fun at the African National Congress and South African President Jacob Zuma – which have […]
“Monty” explores the world of presidential polls. The back-and-forth in the current campaign is, as suggested yesterday, getting to the point where ridiculous things about binders are crowding out more substantive arguments. But, then again, maybe we really are in a world in which facts and logic are not relevant and smart campaigning should ignore […]
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub interviewed Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. The interview is void of Stephan’s typical ego-centric replies and gets to the heart of his work on the strip. Q: What’s a word you’d love to use in your strip but you can’t because it’s the comics page? A: “That sucks” […]
Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast – which owns Newsweek, has announced that December 31 will be the last print edition of Newsweek. Starting in early 2013, it will be called Newsweek Global will only be available via digital devices and the web.We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and […]
Rob Tornoe interviewed Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson about the decision to end the strip. Some of the answers are canned responses that I’ve seen else where. But a couple include new information. Now that you’ve created a bit of free time for yourself, do you have the strength to work on any personal […]
Michael Cavna reports on the recent ruling in California that denies the Shuster family a stake in copyright ownership of the Superman character. On Wednesday, the perpetual fight – now waged by the descendants – got its latest crucial plot twist: A federal judge in California has ruled that Shuster’s heirs cannot reclaim copyrights to […]
Awesome news for Baby Blues fans. A 20th anniversary treasury is due out next month. The collection, entitled “BBXX” contains “personal reflections and never-before-published essays, drawings, and photographs” along with almost 800 comics from the last two decades. The feature by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s won “Best Comic Strip of the Year” by the […]
Waterman Entertainment (executive producer for Casper, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Stuart Little) has announced that it has acquired the film rights to the comic strip Healthcliff from Peter Gallagher who produces the comic strip. The strip will be a CGI/live action film.From the press release: “Their track record is impeccable. Casper, Stuart Little and Alvin […]
Adam Zyglis made good use of the binder concept.And a few others came close, but the binder meme seems to me a pretty good example of what’s wrong with this whole group-participation form of presidential campaign: A lot of piling on over something of very little significance; a lot of straining over gnats and swallowing […]