Gil and Thatababy feature a depressing coincidental theme today: Strips riffing on the conspiracy to turn our children into morons.Your kids should not be watching the brain-damaging swill that now forms a substantial portion of programming.Not just badly written, badly acted cliche comedies. They probably shouldn’t imbibe too much of those, either. But I’m talking […]
Gus McNair writes a column in The Badger Herald taking issue with the paper’s decision to pull a comic from an edition last week because the comic mentioned race. The comic in questions is by Vincent Cheng and the comic depicts a man deciding which music to “like” on Facebook that shows he has a […]
The Wall Street Journal (via Huffington Post) is reporting that Barnes & Noble has said that it will close about 20 stores a year for the next decade – about one-third of its stores. Since 2003, the company has shut an average of 15 stores a year – but it also opened more than 30 […]
Today’s “Buckles” reminds me of a column I wrote back in 1987, based on something I’d seen on, of all places, Kenneth Copeland’s TV ministry.Copeland told the story of taking his little boy to the store and having the kid ask for something, to which Copeland snapped “No, you can’t have that!” And then, he said, […]
Writing about Camp Lord O’ The Flies this past Thursday made me curious enough to go on-line to see if the (real) place is still around. Which it is. And they have some old photos on the site, so I went through those and saw a couple of people I remembered.Oddly enough, my own face […]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal puts a fairly common theme in a new package and makes it new. Our perceptions of the world change, and young folks tend to be awfully cock-sure about the nature of reality and how easy it would be to create the perfect society. And then they gain a little more experience. As Twain […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee on the brilliant marketing of junk food.Saw a thing the other day on Facebook claiming that mayonnaise doesn’t go bad but that onions’ll kill yez. Of course, it turned out to be mostly bogus, but I like the idea of a guy who makes commercial mayonnaise proudly explaining that, […]
The Society of Illustrators has named Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith as their guest of honor at this year’s MoCCA Arts Festival on April 6–7 which will also include an exhibition of his work.From King Features Syndicate: Bill Griffith?s earliest work debuted in New York?s underground press in 1969, appearing in venues including the […]
From Columbia University: Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two significant additions to its Comics and Graphic Novels collections: research materials for Larry Tye’s well-received 2012 book, Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Superhero, as well as six 1940’s Batman scripts from the estate […]
Brad Diller, with what would not be my worst nightmare, either. My worst nightmare is coming face to face with incompetent cliche-ridden writing. Yes, I face a lot of nightmares, now more than ever. Some I would be happy to sit down and have a beer with, but not my worst. Only the others.A number of years […]
From the Daily Mail: The actor who portrayed the voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts television shows has appeared in court charged with stalking his former girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he apparently didn’t like. Shackled in chains, Peter Robbins pleaded not guilty at the San Diego Superior Court […]
The John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist entry date is March 15. The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize as well as all-expense paid trip to this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention hosted in Salt Lake City, UT.There is a $10 entry fee. Entrants must be 25 or younger and […]
Pearls Before Swine triggers some PTSD from my years at Camp Lord O’ The Flies.Every year, at the end of the summer camping season, we’d have a big banquet and hand out ribbons and trophies. Not every kid got one, but almost everyone got something. One year, Jose Garcia’s folks flew in from Puerto Rico to […]
The Patriot Ledger profiles Brian McFadden who does cartoons for the weekly New York Times? Sunday Review section. McFadden’s work comments sardonically on everything from President Barack Obama to income inequality to the media itself. “I’ll call out the media as often as politicians, especially the national media in Washington,” he said. “They have their […]
The inauguration cartoons are mostly in, and, while it’s hard to pick a winner, it’s not hard to see the trend.While a few highlight national debt as a looming presence or a weight on the president’s back, and some riff on the coincidence of a black man being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day (which […]