After seven years using the Wacom Cintiq 21ux, MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond upgrades to the Cintiq 24HD. If you’ve read any of Tom’s reviews, he’s very detailed oriented and provides a lot of information. This is his first review delivered as a video and it’s up to Tom’s usual review standards. If you’ve thought […]

Montreal Gazette editorial cartoonist Terry Mosher (AKA Aislin) walks us through a short history of editorial cartooning in Canada.

Okay, I did a complete post on the changing world of fathers just a few weeks ago. Click on that for a serious discussion of the topic.Today’s Baby Blues made me laugh, however, and I suppose I could have gotten all in a lather about male-bashing or something or other. (Scroll down to yesterday’s entry […]

New Yorker cartoonist Donna Barstow has picked a fight with Something Awful – a user forum notorious for ridicule of comics and those who make them. From Boing Boing:Slate cartoonist Donna Barstow railed on Monday at online forum Something Awful, whose denizens often repost her work and subject it to withering ridicule. Though one of […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced that Charles Carreon, the former FunnyJunk attorney who sued The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman, has dropped the case against Matthew, the charities and the John Does.“Matthew Inman spoke out against Carreon’s threat of a frivolous lawsuit, in a very popular and very public way,” said EFF Senior Staff […]

K Chronicles is a font of comic diversity, going from the personal to the universal and back again in a way that makes it like real conversation: Some days, you talk about what you did last night, some days you talk about something you read.This is a “something you read” day, and one of the […]

For those of us in the US, we’re celebrating Independence Day. I’m taking the day off. See you all here tomorrow.-Alan

Matt Wuerker touches on the Fast-and-Furious scandal, but I have to say the real problem is not gullible gunowners, the profusion of firearms or a vast rightwing conspiracy — though it would be helpful if people were less gullible and if the rightwing conspiracy were, indeed, a myth.The real threat is a conspiracy of stupidity. […]

Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis will soon be publishing a children’s book entitled, “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.” The book is due out in February by Candlewick Press.From Stephan’s blog:It’s called “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.” It’s about a boy detective who can take any mystery and make it more mysterious. It comes out […]

Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker has designed an interactive app for the iPhone called Obamagrams. The app features an animated President Obama that will say anything you want him to and allows you to upload your creation to YouTube, Facebook or send as an email. Screen shots from the app:

The Harvey Awards, named after the late Harvey Kurtzman, recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. The winners will be announced on September 8 during the Baltimore Comic-Con. This year’s nominees are:BEST LETTERER Chris Eliopoulos, FEAR ITSELF, Marvel Comics Laura Lee Gulledge, PAGE BY PAIGE, Amulet Books Todd Klein, S.H.I.E.L.D.: ARCHITECTS OF FOREVER, Marvel […]

Bug, as usual, cuts through the veil of maturity. The best Fourth of July stories involve at least chaos, if not mayhem. But chaos plus mayhem will vault a particular year to the top of the memory pile, for sure.It’s been awhile since I was at the chaos and/or mayhem stage of life.My last chaos/mayhem […]

Dr. Scott Henson, better known in the cartooning community as Russ Wallace who created the panel Natural Selection, passed away last week at the age of 52. Scott was a trained neurosurgeon but had to leave surgery due to debilitating heart disease. He then turned to cartooning launching Natural Selection in 2000. The strip ran […]

Pearls Before Swine, with a message from God that He really wants me to rant about self-consciously writery writing.Which is to say, He’s a little miffed that the strip Anne Gibbons did for Six Chix yesterday made my short list but then I wrote about something else. So now He’s re-introduced the concept in starker […]

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, which is a good occasion to remember “The World of Lily Wong,” a cartoon done by an American ex-pat, Larry Feign, who lived in Hong Kong under the Union Jack and, like Lily’s husband in the strip, was married to a Hong Kong […]