Matthew Inman, the creator of The Oatmeal, has received an email from a lawyer representing Funnyjunk threatening to file a federal lawsuit for defamation if Matthew doesn’t remove all mention of FunnyJunk from his website AND doesn’t pay the lawyer $20,000 by today (letter written June 2). The backstory to this bizarre twist goes back […]
The Team Cul de Sac auction came to an end last night. I can’t help but think Chris Sparks, the team organizer, is genuinely pleased with the results. Collectively the auctioned raised over $47,000 (minus fees, etc.). The most watched item was Bill Watterson’s oil painting of Petey Otterloop which sold for $13,145.00.You can view […]
The Team Cul de Sac auction ended last night, raising a total of $47,107, including the auction house’s 19.5% buyers’ premiums, which, by my never-reliable calculations nets out to about $38,000 going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.Not surprisingly, the portrait of Petey by Bill Watterson was the top item, leaping at the end to […]
I’m not sure this is the term that will stick, but Bizarro is certainly on the right track.I flew this week for the first time in a year, and it gave me a chance to see the extent to which the smartphone has gone from early-adaptor gadget to business-person necessity to mainstream narcotic.Based on what […]
I’m pretty sure I know Steve Sack’s point here, but I find the cartoon a more eloquent statement of the dilemma than a justification for the use of drones.The war of insurgency was not the invention, or exclusive provence, of Ho Chi Minh. Ahmed Ben Bella was orchestrating a similar decentralized opposition to French rule […]
Zits is an odd mix of old-line jokes about messy bedrooms and giant backpacks and new gags reflecting how young people actually live.Obviously, I wouldn’t be featuring a messy bedroom gag here, which is not to say that kids today clean up their rooms. Some do, some don’t, but it’s not exactly a bottomless well […]
Piranha Club, always an excellent source of retro humor, has started a story arc that, like all its really good arcs, will have readers saying, “Okay, I shouldn’t laugh at this …” and then laughing.I’m running both yesterday’s and today’s strip to add a little more context, but here’s what you need to know: Daryl, the […]
The Paris Review interviewed long-time MAD Magazine writer Dick DeBartolo about his long career starting in 1962.As you watch a movie, are you keeping count of the gags and writing ideas down? Yeah, and after I see the movie, I write a whole outline of it, and then I go through it again and I […]
Malaysia cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque (AKA Zunar) says he has no intention of obeying the recent declaration by the Maylasian Election Commission banning caricatures from this year’s election.Zunar speaking to the Free Malaysia Today:“Cartoons are legal in Malaysia. Nobody said that cartoons are illegal…Who is the EC to decide whether [political cartoons] are serious or […]
I don’t often agree with Ted Rall, but I keep up with his cartoons because of moments like this.I used to have a talk on this very subject that I would deliver to Rotary Clubs and other similar gatherings of potential sponsors for my newspapers-in-education programs, and I’d use the Beatles’ appearance on Ed Sullivan […]
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has created a iBook of his best 100 business cartoons and is selling it through the iTunes Book Store for $.99. The book is entitled, “The Andertoons Book of Business Cartoons.”
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) was asked to create a cartoon to celebrate the 175th anniversary of The Baltimore Sun. He’s posted his cartoon on his blog with the comment, “I choose to create something that celebrated the proud tradition of editorial cartooning at The Sun over the decades. I hope the tradition continues for another 100 […]
Just a friendly reminder to anyone interested in participating in The Cartoonist Studio’s latest contest. This first contest (a related second contest launches later this summer) kicks off on Monday the 11th for public viewing, but starting tomorrow entrants can start uploading their cartoons. This contest requires participants to publish two single panel politically themed […]
Andrews McMeel, the parent company and publishing company behind Universal Uclick, has announced that they will be releasing a paperback edition of “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson in November. The paperback set will contain four-volumes in a slip-case and contain every Calvin & Hobbes cartoon published during the 10 year run of […]
Ed Stein, who drew editorial cartoons for ever 30 years at the Rocky Mountain News before it closed in 2009, has decided to retire from editorial cartooning. He drew his last cartoon on May 31 (above). For over 10 years he drew a local comic strip called Denver Squares for the Rocky Mountain News and […]