I have praised Scott Stantis several times here for (A) being a conservative with a sense of humor and (B) not being an ideologue.Here’s a particularly fine example, both in and of itself and in contrast to a lot of other stuff.The past couple of weeks have seen some really poor cartooning, particularly from the […]
Next week Jeff MacNelly?s Shoe will turn 35. Jeff?s wife Susie, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are producing the strip now, have created a special retrospective series that takes Skyler, one of the strip’s characters, back in time to 1977 to meet Jeff.From the press release: The week-long retrospective kicks off with Skyler traveling […]
A recent Gary McCoy editorial cartoon featuring Georgetown Law School graduate Sandra Fluke has sparked outrage among readers. And in characteristic Gary style, he’s confused at the outrage.Here’s the cartoon in question: Daryl Cagle asked him to respond to critics of the cartoon. Gary writes: Why is it that a group of people so adept […]
Alix, the younger daughter in Stone Soup, has been going through a transformation this summer into what promises to be a bright, curious little girl who, I presume, will provide a contrast to her older, more slacker-like sister. What I particularly like about the move is that we’ve already established that she’s a funny kid […]
Shepard Fairey, the artist who gained notoriety for creating the infamous Barack Obama ?Hope? poster using an image from the Associated Press has been convicted of ?destroying and fabricating documents? in a civil lawsuit. According to The Smoking Gun, federal prosecutors want to make an example out of him and have filed a memorandum with […]
Another webcomic is raising a mass amount of money through Kickstarter. Homestruck is a webcomic in the format of a text-based adventure game that requires readers to click through each page to advance the story-line. According to Gary Tyrell over at Fleen, he calculates that it took Homestruck creator Andew Hussie about 32 hours to […]
This year’s Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award winner (awarded by Cartoonists Rights Network International) Aseem Trivedi has agreed to surrender to police sometime in the next couple of days. He has been charged for sedition under a 2005 law that prohibits insulting Indian national symbols and emblems. Last December cartoons created by Aseem were displayed […]
Pickles nails one.I like conversations about language, and there are some nails-on-chalk mistakes that bother me. One thing I edit out of reporters’ stories is use of the word “that” when it is referencing people. “John Smith is someone that …” becomes “John Smith is someone who …” under my pen.Howsoever.This does not make me smarter […]
King Feature’s The Archivist has a interesting post on the internationalization of Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: Ever since the 1950’s, BEETLE BAILEY has been embraced by many nations outside the United States, because like most good strips, the series exhibits universal human foibles that all can identify with. In this case, the world of army […]
A couple of years ago I reported that StoryCorp had begun creating animating some of their stories. They’ve continued to animate more, but now they want to create a long-form animated special and are asking for donations though Kickstarter to make that happen. About two years ago, StoryCorps, the national oral history project, began animating […]
Daryl Cagle is out and about, this time lecturing in Mumbai India:“Cartoons are a great barometer of freedom. If a cartoonist can draw the president, then that’s a free press” said noted American Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle. Daryl, currently the editorial cartoonist at NBC News, was in the city on Friday as part of a […]
Mentioned in the news that Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle comic strip had hit the 5 year milestone mark was news that an ebook collection of her strip would soon be available. And now it is. You can download yours from Lulu.com or Apple’s iBookstore. As Alex jokes in her email to me – the cost […]
CBS News profiled Matt Wuerker about his cartoons for Politico – the beltway newspaper. Wuerker said he has heard from the people he satirizes. He recalled a cartoon attacking Donald Rumsfeld during the Iraq War: “I got an email from a colonel in the Pentagon who said that [Secretary Rumsfeld] had seen the cartoon and […]
The Dallas Morning News has an article by Mike Peters (but not MG&G Mike Peters) about how several cartoonists’ caricatures of President Obama has evolved over the course of his first term: “It’s subconscious, but the way a cartoonist draws a politician does change over time as the cartoonist’s impression of that politician changes,” said […]
I’ve been meaning to point out the current Sherman’s Lagoon arc, which stands out not simply for being funny but for suggesting that Jim Toomey actually has some idea what “The Hunger Games” is about. (The arc starts here, and then you can use the “next cartoon” buttons to follow it forward. Yes, I know […]