Jeff Keane is a past National Cartoonist Society president and does the comic panel The Family Circus which was started by his father Bil Keane in 1960. His presentation gave us a look at how his father’s career started and evolved and eventually created one of the most iconic comics on the funny page.Notes Bil’s […]
Tim Brennan is a founding partner in Reed Brennan and Associates a pagination and technology company owned by King Features. Got into newspapers in 1968. Tim was part of a project to study effects of information delivered electronically into homes in 1980’s Time ended the study in 1984. Tribune Media Services was formed based on […]
Ed Steckely is a professional illustrator in New York City who contributes to MAD Magazine. He talked about how the majority of his income is now in advertising illustration and what that all entails.Notes: 80% of income now is advertising illustration Was a caricature artist at theme parks Stressed the importance of learning to draw […]
The Knight Life, with a Biblical passage that makes the whole argument worthwhile.Fact is, the comparison is not all that far fetched. Funny, yes, but not far fetched.Back when I was doing the “Lookback” feature at the paper where I worked, the issue of registering cars came up in the 75 Years Ago files, and […]
A great catch from Tom Spurgeon. Someone inserted Calvin & Hobbes into real photos.
Indeed.The ideal news story today would be if Kate Upton took an unscheduled drink of water while stranded on a cruise ship that was buzzed by a meteorite. And, if none of that happened, we could fall back on coverage of Honey Boo Boo.I gave up on NBC Nightly News when they started doing features […]
Soup to Nutz on the competitive nature of belief.It’s interesting to note that, prior to the Babylonian captivity, the First Commandment did not require the Israelites to believe there was only one god. It simply required them to worship the appropriate one for them. If Moses had come back down the mountain and found everyone bowing […]
I’ve said that I approach each morning as a blank slate, waiting to see what topic the day’s cartoons will prompt me to riff on, but I’ll admit I have been hoping for a good “Papal retirement” cartoon, and with some increasing impatience.Apparently, judging from the cartoons, there appears to have been some sort of […]
Of the former president George W. Bush’s paintings that were made public by a hacker, Stephen Colbert makes this one-liner critique: “That is a bold, artistic vision that says ‘faces are hard.’” The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Maybe Bush should have taken up cartooning.
The Knight Foundation paid Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at a Knight Foundation luncheon wherein he talked about his plagiarism and fabrications.From Poynter: At a talk this afternoon in Miami, Jonah Lehrer acknowledged his plagiarism and fabrications and described how he hopes to redeem his reputation. Lehrer read prepared remarks then answered questions from Knight […]
From Business Insider: There’s a team of 100 product designers, marketers, and hardware and software engineers working on a smartwatch at Apple, Bloomberg reports. The size of the group suggests that the so-called “iWatch” project has moved beyond test stages. Bloomberg named two engineering managers, Achim Pantfoerder and James Foster, as involved int he project. […]
One thing that is becoming very clear in the modern, interconnected global village is that the global village is no longer a philosophical concept but a practical reality.I was talking to one of my granddaughters the other day and realized I had to explain that, years ago, when her father was overseas, the longer we […]
Pros and Cons riffs on the line between terminology and jargon and triggers my PNSD (post-newsroom stress disorder).One man’s terminology is another man’s jargon, but you do have to assume some level of shared vocabulary. Unless you are a copy editor.One man’s copy editor is another man’s nuance-destroying, prose-homogenizing, style-book-wielding grammar nazi.I’ve had my rhetorical […]
So let’s extend the discussion of niche-y inside humor from Saturday’s posting with today’s Heart of the City.I’m not a huge movie fan, and certainly not enough of one to know all the directors. I know the ones who genuinely become brands, so a gag like this PBS from 2003 is not lost on me […]
This being the Sunday before Valentine’s Day, the comic pages are full of bow-and-arrow gags and jokes about chocolate. The only strip that struck me as particularly romantic didn’t mention the holiday at all: Judge Parker manages to combine storytelling with classic graphics and a sense of humor that doesn’t involve jokes. And hot, brainy […]