I gave Stephan Pastis a hard time when his last Pearls Before Swine collection came out because the title was so long (Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left Hand: A Pearls Before Swine Collection) and the fact that it seemed like he came out with a book every other month. […]
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley will be one of five individuals honored this weekend for the 2012 Mayor’s Artist Awards. Pat is being recognized in the category of literary arts for his editorial cartooning. The awards are given to “individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the artistic landscape of the […]
The Lockhorns hit on a timely theme, given that I just got back from a week at my youngest’s, looked around my apartment with fresh eyes and said, “Where did all this crap come from?”No Nehru jackets, but plenty of other stuff that evokes the same “Are you kidding me?” response, once you’ve really stopped […]
Pixar will release their sequel to “Monsters Inc.” next summer called “Monsters University” that tells the tale of Mike and Sulley during their university years. Looks like most if not all of the major characters (and voice talent) from Inc. will be back in the sequel. Here’s the teaser they released today:Look for the movie […]
Despite great fame and fortune of creating and producing the longest running and most successful TV animation program in history, Matt Groening has quietly been drawing his alternative comic strip Life in Hell each week for 32 years. Until last week. He tell’s USA Today that the decision was to free up his time for […]
Casey Johnston (writing on ArsTechnica) has one of the best plain english pieces on why Funky Junk attorney Charles Carreon has named Indiegogo, National Wildlife Federation and to the American Cancer Society in his suit against Matthew Inman.The charges against Inman’s fundraising may be the most serious, but they’re also the oddest. Carreon says that […]
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One of the criticism of the iPad when launched was that it was a device only for consuming content and not creating it. Yesterday Microsoft stepped into the tablet market announcing Microsoft Surface. The new tablet will be running the yet-to-launch Windows 8 OS and will be a full PC experience for its users. Where […]
Sheldon, once more, provides a bit of sea anchor for a world seriously adrift.Note that a sea anchor doesn’t stop the drift entirely. It just slows it down. And, in this case, it may be a case of dangling a piece of dental floss off the side of the ship for all the good it […]
Charles Carreon, the lawyer originally hired by FunnyJunk to threaten Matthew Inman with a federal defamation lawsuit, has field a suit representing himself against Matthew, Indiegogo (the website where Matthew has raised nearly $200,000 for the National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society – AND named both charities in the suit. The suit alleges […]
Robot6 reports that the proposed Ohio license plate recognizing Superman and his Ohio connection to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster won’t include the phrase “Birthplace of Superman” after DC Comics objected stating that Superman’s birthplace was Krypton. Also reported was the news the license plate did not make it through the state’s Senate transportation committee […]
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett was invited by the State Department to tour China and give lectures and presentations on editorial cartooning in America. He’s written four briefs of his activities and impressions while traveling there. This one from his last one dated June 14: The Shanghai schedule has been packed with EXTREMELY IMPORTANT […]
Last week we saw Matthew Inman’s response to the legal threat of defamation by FunnyJunk attorney Charles Carreon by mocking his demand for $20,000 and starting a fundraising effort – not to pay the legal fees but to instead raise $20,000 for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. To date, Matthew has […]
Finally, a cartoonist sensibly captures the economic problems of the European Union.Petar Pismestrovic avoids prescription in favor of description, which I think is wise in that most cartoonists don’t know very much about macroeconomics and so just end up parroting a party line about austerity or the need for spending or whatever the objects of […]
Rhymes With Orange is in contention for CSOTD so often that I’m kind of disappointed today was such a landslide.This is a funny, insightful and affectionate little salute to fathers and I wish it had been a tougher choice, because it wouldn’t have changed the outcome.Father’s Day cartoons, by and large, are treated like an […]