Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine noticed several similarities between scenes in the trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s new movie Ted and Lucas Turnbloom’s webcomic Imagine This. Tom created a side-by-side comparison of some of the images from the trailer with Imagine This. You can see some similarities. Click for larger viewBut the question boils down […]
This Jim Morin cartoon actually popped up a couple of days ago, but political cartoons get a little latitude on the “of the Day” factor here, since they are, for the most part, intended to last at least a couple of days or maybe even a week.I really like it because I remember Whitewater as […]
From a trusted source I’ve learned that that there has been a couple of leadership changes inside Universal Uclick. Lee Salem has announced that he has relinquished his title of Editor. He started with the company since 1974 as an assistant editor before rising through the ranks to President in 2006. Since then he has […]
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) and local fire fighters are calling foul to a recent cartoon by Andy Marlette depicting firefighters hosing down two African-Americans with a caption that reads, “Don’t worry, since they laid off all the journalists in Alabama we can get away with this kind of stuff again!” The cartoon […]
In his last animation at Daily Kos before the elections (which is good for him, I guess, but feels kind of like having the surgeon scrub out just as the tricky part of the operation is beginning), Scott Bateman takes an actual Mitt Romney speech and adds a few MST3000 style wiseass comments in the margins: Which is […]
The Comics Journal ran a sneak peak of an interview between Gary Groth and “Where the Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, where it’s revealed that Maurice thought about assassinating President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chenney with a suicide bomb and said the act would have been a “very brave and wonderful thing.” […]
University of Michigan Press is publishing “American Newspaper Comics, An Encyclopedic Reference Guide” by comic strip historian Allan Holtz. The book will be 624 pages with over 3,100 color and B&W comic strips.The description:From its earliest appearance in the 1890s, the newspaper comic strip has told the story of America, from the Irish ghetto of […]
The Washington Examiner has announced that they’re reworking their editorial page after the loss of Nate Beeler who took a job with the Columbus Dispatch. Their revamp includes not only NOT filling Nate’s position, but removing all cartoons and comics from the editorial page.Starting today, the Washington Examiner has a new weapon in its ongoing […]
Rob Tornoe reports that The Washington Post has merged two of it’s properties – The Washington Post Writers Group and The Washington Post News Service into one media service called The Washington Post News Media Services. Here’s how Rob explains it:The Washington Post took a major step forward to combat these trends by creating The […]
The final tally of Matthew Inman’s fundraiser for National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society is $220,024 – 11 times more than the $20,000 he hoped to raise in response to a legal defamation threat by FunnyJunk.com. Over 14,000 individuals donated money to the campaign. On the legal front, after being sued by Charles […]
Clay Bennett with yet another example of excellent draftsmanship combined with the right concept. It’s not a terribly common combination. It’s frustrating to see good art wasted in the service of a so-what concept, or, worse, one that can’t quite be made out. But it’s also a shame when a really good idea is only half-realized […]
And if ever an idea pops into your head without having to dig for it – and this sometimes happens – it’s rarely usable straight out of the gate. Ideas need to go through a process of development to become usable, and sellable. Those tools I’ve mentioned are in fact actual methods used to do […]
Lizzie of “Reply All,” explains computer updates and upgrades in language we can all understand.I currently have two semi-working laptops and one that works well.By “semi-working” I mean slightly odd and tweaky, which is acceptable for goofing around but definitely not okay for a telecommuter to work on, since it’s hard to fake productivity when […]
It’s the tiny doll shoes. There are more tiny doll shoes than tiny doll feet, and they breed under sofas and in register grates and the back corners of closets. Tiny doll shoes are the larval stage of pods.At least they were when I was a kid. I, too, was a big brother.But when I […]
Matt Bors had this one ready to roll out as soon as the verdict came in last night, and the Lord’s sideline glance is worth the whole piece. But Bors immediately caught flak on Facebook for the comparison.No, not from the Penn State alums. Which leads to my first observation, which is that commentators kept […]