This week’s Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog begins a two week series spotlighting engineers and engineering. The series is in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and features characters Skip and Lila learning how engineering makes a positive impact in our world. “Since I draw a comic strip about robots, I was really excited […]
I’m having a difficult time formulating words to express my thanks for all for your support and kinds words this last week. Thank you all who shared your sympathies and offerings of prayers on the blog, in email, Twitter or on Facebook. In the next couple of days I will be collecting them all up […]
The New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff responds to a cartoon by Mick Stevens that was banned on Facebook because it depicted a naked Adam and Eve.The New Yorker has a Facebook page, which a lot of you like, or maybe it’s just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the […]
I’m playing a bit of catchup on the news surrounding Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi who was arrested for sedition for cartoons depicting the Parliament building as a toilet and another featured Mother India about to be gang raped by a character labeled “corruption.” Aseem was released from jail on Sunday to a hero’s welcome after […]
ToonSeum founder Joe Wos is attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. When completed the maze will measure over 4 feet high by 30 feet long. The fully solvable maze is filled with cartoon illustrations.From the press release: The inception for the project began a few years ago when Joe […]
Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has published crude caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which has many fearing they are throwing “oil on the fire” considering the protests and riots occurring right now around the world over a short film called “The Innocence of Muslims.”From Huffington Post: The prime minister said freedom of expression is guaranteed […]
There is an emerging consensus about this election, at least among cartoonists, and that is that Mitt Romney is an ever-flowing source of inspiration. And in the few weeks that he doesn’t serve up a lob that can be smashed back across the net, his runningmate will fill the gap by claiming to have run […]
Two related strips about two very different slackers: Nemi, a perennially 20-something Scandanavian goth chick, and Big Nate, a perennial American middle-school student, each with an intelligent, well-grounded friend who acts as straight-man.I don’t have a lot to say about this except that I was struck by the odd parallels both in gag structure of the […]
Sarah Laing departs from format to ask the important question, “Why am I not viral?” Beats me. I’m seven of those thousand weekly hits, because I come back every day to see if she’s updated. I don’t know why everybody isn’t doing the same.Okay, I know why. Because her stuff isn’t cute. It’s thoughtful. Worse than […]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal isn’t the same type of geeky as xkcd, but it does appeal to people with a little education — more in the realm of philosophy and literature, but you’d better have a little math and science if you’re going to visit regularly, because it touches on just about everything. Even when […]
Cul de Sac ends its official run next week, though it’s actually been in rerun mode for some time now as friend-of-the-blog Richard Thompson works on the health problems that brought about the strip’s end.Perhaps feeling reflective, or maybe just in one of his frequent Puckish moods, Richard posted some pre-launch Cul de Sac strips […]
I need a bit of technical direction from those of you who are more experienced with streaming video. My dad’s funeral service is Sunday morning and many of his family and friends who live outside of the US have asked if there was a way to stream the service live. The abbot has no objections, […]
It is not a difficult thing to understand, if understanding is your goal.Brian Gable provides a simple graphic depiction. I like the use of real shell casings, but, that touch aside, he comments not just on the assault on the consulate but also the ongoing tragedy of Syria and the atmosphere of extremist dissent that […]
Yesterday I got that call that I knew would happen someday, but could never prepare for. My father had passed. Dad was always supportive of my passion for cartooning. When I was still in high school he became good friends with a zen master – Rev. Don Gilbert. Rev. Gilbert was as a magazine cartoonist […]
Speed Bump offers a heapin’ helpin’ of food for thought.It’s well-timed. Though “back to school” for most colleges was several weeks ago, and cutting the check was quite a bit earlier than that, the economy remains center stage. And this is a nice riff on the quickly-becoming-tiresome gags about recent graduates living at home.The last […]