Michael Cavna writes that with the upcoming Baltimore Comic-Con, Small Press Expo and the The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists “#!&%!! Cartoons – a Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon” – the DC area will be a hub of cartooning events in September. The Washington region has perhaps never seen such a cluster of Cartoonus northamericanus. […]
Richard’s Poor Almanac and Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted a tidbit on how you can get a signed copy of his book Richard’s Poor Almanac. It’s a rare collection – I don’t remember how much I paid for mine and was smart enough to take it to the New Orlean’s NCS weekend […]
Several National Cartoonists Society members have returned from a USO trip to Bahrain and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to draw/sign cartoons for members of the US Military. The cartoonists in the group were Jeff Bacon (Broadside), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Jeff Keane, (The Family Circus), Rick Kirkman (co-creator of Baby Blues), Tom Richmond (MAD […]
Meecy-micey, atsa some big cartoon, dere, Tom Tomorrow. All those panels and not a clunker in the group. (This might be a good time to remind you that you can click on the image for a larger version.)I’ve got nothing to add. He covered it all. And any one of these panels could have been […]
Gil is one of the very, very few strips acknowledging Labor Day as more than a last chance to grill burgers. The other I found was Non Sequitur. Mike Thompson took a wack at it, too, but made it into a partisan attack, which seems a bit off-topic even in an election cycle, given the […]
Deflocked comments on something or other. I’m taking a break this weekend; you figure it out. Today’s strip fits in with a stupid, pointless argument I got into on Facebook the other day. Facebook isn’t supposed to be for arguing, but there are a few folks there who set up their pages more like Usenet, […]
The Big Lie Theory of Government is alive and well. Matt Davies does a nice job of wedding the embarrassing Clint Eastwood appearance with what should be an even more embarrassing speech by VP Candidate Paul Ryan, a presentation so full of non-operative statements that even a Fox News analyst called him out on it: (T)o anyone […]
Walt Disney Studios announced they were re-releasing two of their films, Avengers and Disney/Pixar’s Brave, again this weekend for some last minute summer movie cash.From LA Times: An end-of-summer push has been attempted before by the studio – last year, “Cars 2,” which first hit theaters in June, expanded from around 200 theaters to more […]
John Deering’s Strange Brew hits me at just the right moment.Digital photography is making it easy to take good pictures, and even easier to take bad ones. GIGO was never more in evidence.I had to deal with one photo this week that had a date/time stamp on it. It wasn’t even the right date.I tell […]
Last year Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, best known as Zunar, was awarded the CRNI’s Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning. Below is his acceptance speech.
For those interested in using their iPad for more cartooning (you bought it as a business expense, right?) Bill LaRocque did a demo of how he uses his iPad to do cartooning and talks about the benefits and drawbacks. He notes most of his artwork nowadays is digital.
The Syracuse Post-Standard (NY) and Harrisburg’s The Patriot-News (PA) have announced they are dropping to a three-days-a-week printing schedule in January. Both papers are part of the Advance Publications Inc family. According to a couple of news reports editors cited the economic model for newspapers no longer works and the need to reinvent themselves as […]
Using Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest Universal Uclick has created three social media channels for specific liberal and conservative political content for the election season. GoComics, a part of Universal Uclick, has developed new Facebook pages and Twitter accounts where fans of these political leanings can receive focused comics that they are apt to share. These […]
Arlo and Janis once more taps into my life.While I sit here praying that, as the newspaper industry implodes around me, my skill set will get me through just a couple of more years until Social Security kicks in, Arlo notes that, yeah, most of what we know seems to be fading into oblivion.Fortunately, our generation […]
PBS videos Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and Scott Stantis (Chicago Tribune) engaged in a “draw off.”