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Webcomic: Calvin & Hobbes mashup with Breaking Bad

by Alan Gardner 6 comments October 1, 2012

Washington City Paper’s Alexis Hauk talks to Clayton Hanson, a legislative information editor in Washington DC, who has started posting a mashup of the AMC television series Breaking Bad and Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes. WCP: And you are a rabid Breaking Bad fan, I assume? CH: I started watching when it first came out. […]

CSotD: The triumph of hope over experience

by Mike Peterson 4 comments October 1, 2012

Today’s comics page brings something of a coincidence, but the topic sure comes from two different angles.In “Heart of the City,” it’s established that Heart and her mother have been two girls, living all together, but they are all alone (ear worms inserted free!). There was an arc years ago in which Heart met her […]

CSotD: Dying of exposure

by Mike Peterson 4 comments September 30, 2012

Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. — Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManI don’t know that Terri Libenson will get a lot of laffs from the general public for today’s Pajama Diaries, which may be too much […]

CSotD: Death be not proud

by Mike Peterson 2 comments September 29, 2012

Speed Bump tackles the issue of the end of the story as it is told and end of the story including the tying up of loose ends.Overthinking cartoons is part of the primary mission here, and the fact is that the urn, not the cremation, is the problem here.(Note: Everything that follows is in excruciatingly […]

CSotD: New (and vintage) Beginnings

by Mike Peterson 3 comments September 28, 2012

This is suddenly a really good time to pick up on some continuity strips, since several that are worth following are just starting new stories: Over at DailyInk, Rip Kirby has just had a confrontation on a twisty road with this woman who we now discover is a race car driver. The strip is from […]

College dean collects 8,000 cartoons; now on exhibit

by Alan Gardner 1 comments September 27, 2012

University of South Florida College of Public Health Dean Emeritus Charles Mahan started to collect original cartoons when he was 12. Over the years he has amassed a collection of over 8,000 pieces. Part of his collection was recently exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art. He donated his collection to the University of South […]

Liza Donnelly touring and exhibiting in Macedonia

by Alan Gardner 1 comments September 27, 2012

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly is currently touring Macedonia with the US State Department talking about political cartoons and the United States. An exhibit featuring her work has opened in Daut Pasha Hammam (Macedonia) and runs through this Friday. You can view photos on the U.S. Embassy Macedonia’s Facebook page.

Interviewed: Lalo Alcaraz as cartoonist and activist

by Alan Gardner 1 comments September 27, 2012

VOXXI interviews editorial cartoonist, comic strip creator (La Cucaracha) and activist Lalo Alcaraz about using his cartooning and as an activist. Q: You do a lot of satire with political issues. Tell me about some of the themes you use throughout your cartoons and why you use those specific subjects? A: My parents are immigrants […]

Superman exhibit opens in Cleveland airport

by Alan Gardner 1 comments September 27, 2012

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport will be home to a permanent exhibit paying tribute the Superman and his creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel. The two created the famous super hero in 1932 in Cleveland.Its dedication is scheduled for Oct. 11. Next time you’re flying into Cleveland, look for the exhibit near the baggage claim area.

CSotD: There go them bells agin

by Mike Peterson 8 comments September 27, 2012

Tina’s Groove hits one of my pet peeves: Businesses that put up websites and then ignore them.This comes, as it happens, on a week when old folks and trivia buffs are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beverly Hillbillies, which I mention because the early episodes had the Clampetts puzzling their way through their new […]

CSotD: Please don’t all be funny at once

by Mike Peterson 9 comments September 26, 2012

I hate Wednesday. Never mind Monday, though I do enjoy a nice plate of lasagna now and again.But Wednesdays are the worst day of the week, an embarrassment of riches with which I cannot cope. On Monday, cartoonists are introducing new arcs and the set up is not always a good stand-alone. Friday can be […]

DreamWorks Animation announces 12 new films in next 4 years

by Alan Gardner 1 comments September 25, 2012

Dreamworks to release 12 animation films in next 4 yearsCommingsoon.net reports that Dreamworks Animation SKG will release 12 animated films in the next four years.The Croods – March 22, 2013 Turbo – July 19, 2013 Mr. Peabody & Sherman – November 1, 2013 Me and My Shadow – March 14, 2014 How to Train Your […]

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