Bug, as usual, cuts through the veil of maturity. The best Fourth of July stories involve at least chaos, if not mayhem. But chaos plus mayhem will vault a particular year to the top of the memory pile, for sure.It’s been awhile since I was at the chaos and/or mayhem stage of life.My last chaos/mayhem […]
Dr. Scott Henson, better known in the cartooning community as Russ Wallace who created the panel Natural Selection, passed away last week at the age of 52. Scott was a trained neurosurgeon but had to leave surgery due to debilitating heart disease. He then turned to cartooning launching Natural Selection in 2000. The strip ran […]
Pearls Before Swine, with a message from God that He really wants me to rant about self-consciously writery writing.Which is to say, He’s a little miffed that the strip Anne Gibbons did for Six Chix yesterday made my short list but then I wrote about something else. So now He’s re-introduced the concept in starker […]
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, which is a good occasion to remember “The World of Lily Wong,” a cartoon done by an American ex-pat, Larry Feign, who lived in Hong Kong under the Union Jack and, like Lily’s husband in the strip, was married to a Hong Kong […]
Frazz stirs up memories of real-life Calvinball, and all the games I’d play on my own. Some were dumb, some were inventive, all were fun.And playing alone was pretty much a choice. There were plenty of kids in our neighborhood and most of them were home after school and on weekends. Plus, my little brother […]
No surprise that political cartoonists are commenting on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. There are roughly a kazillion panels at Daryl Cagle’s site if you want to sort through them. (And, yes, they are still there even if you don’t want to sort through them.)About half of them appear to have […]
Hogan’s Alley has posted over 250 photos from this year’s Reuben Award Weekend in Las Vegas. Photographer is David Folkman who was rarely seen not looking through the camera that weekend.
Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine noticed several similarities between scenes in the trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s new movie Ted and Lucas Turnbloom’s webcomic Imagine This. Tom created a side-by-side comparison of some of the images from the trailer with Imagine This. You can see some similarities. Click for larger viewBut the question boils down […]
This Jim Morin cartoon actually popped up a couple of days ago, but political cartoons get a little latitude on the “of the Day” factor here, since they are, for the most part, intended to last at least a couple of days or maybe even a week.I really like it because I remember Whitewater as […]
From a trusted source I’ve learned that that there has been a couple of leadership changes inside Universal Uclick. Lee Salem has announced that he has relinquished his title of Editor. He started with the company since 1974 as an assistant editor before rising through the ranks to President in 2006. Since then he has […]
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and local fire fighters are calling foul to a recent cartoon by Andy Marlette depicting firefighters hosing down two African-Americans with a caption that reads, “Don’t worry, since they laid off all the journalists in Alabama we can get away with this kind of stuff again!” The cartoon […]
In his last animation at Daily Kos before the elections (which is good for him, I guess, but feels kind of like having the surgeon scrub out just as the tricky part of the operation is beginning), Scott Bateman takes an actual Mitt Romney speech and adds a few MST3000 style wiseass comments in the margins: Which is […]
The Comics Journal ran a sneak peak of an interview between Gary Groth and “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, where it’s revealed that Maurice thought about assassinating President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenney with a suicide bomb and said the act would have been a “very brave and wonderful thing.” […]
University of Michigan Press is publishing “American Newspaper Comics, An Encyclopedic Reference Guide” by comic strip historian Allan Holtz. The book will be 624 pages with over 3,100 color and B&W comic strips.The description:From its earliest appearance in the 1890s, the newspaper comic strip has told the story of America, from the Irish ghetto of […]
The Washington Examiner has announced that they’re reworking their editorial page after the loss of Nate Beeler who took a job with the Columbus Dispatch. Their revamp includes not only NOT filling Nate’s position, but removing all cartoons and comics from the editorial page.Starting today, the Washington Examiner has a new weapon in its ongoing […]