Watch Your Head scores with one of those gags that will only work in the hands of one character.That’s not only a hallmark of a good gag, but of a good strip, and Omar is the perfect choice for this one: He’s so above it all, and someone we all know all too well.This week, […]
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of Peanuts to Saturday Morning favorites. Mark Anderson broke the commercial down to a near frame-by-frame rate to catalog all of the cameos – both official and unofficial. He spotted at least one credit error and […]
Heh. I just noticed the other day that my phone, which I’ve had for several months, still had its plastic. I wish I had someone in my life who would be maddened by my indifference, but I don’t, so I went ahead and peeled it off.That much sooner it will be all scratched up. I […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]
Amazing. Rich Burlew has raised nearly half of a million dollars through Kickstarter to reprint out-of-print collections of his webcomic Order of the Stick. The project has over 6000 supporters who have contributed anywhere from $10 to $5000. The fund drive will continue until February 21st.
Interesting observation by Slate who looks at the 18 times Daffy Duck gets shot in the face within the three “Hunting Trilogy” Looney Tunes shorts.Between 1951 and 1953, legendary animator Chuck Jones directed his “Hunting Trilogy,” three short Looney Tunes that are among the classics of the form. The premise of each short is simple: […]
As I was just saying, humor has become an essential part of political cartooning, at least if you want your cartoons to appear in the papers. I suspect that Jeff Koterba has a pretty good chance with this one.Those who can’t fathom the politics will still get a kick out of the gag.He had an […]
The timing on today’s Rudy Park is excellent, as Facebook works towards its Initial Public Offering and analysts start to question whether its value has already peaked.I even heard someone suggest that we might be seeing a second round of the dot-com bubble.The timing is more fortuitous than planned, I’m quite sure, given lead times […]
Two weeks ago Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis launched an iPad app called Only The Pearls – a 250 best of collection with audio commentary, interactive features and 22 videos of Stephan acting like an egotistical “ass#%$*” (his description, not mine. Okay, maybe I inserted the word egotistical). There’s something troubling about the app […]
Comic historian Bob Harvey takes a look at the history of the serial comic strip Mary Worth. The version of history that inspires this diatribe claims that Martha Orr, a niece of Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Carey Orr, started the comic strip that has always been dubbed the first soap opera strip. But she didn’t […]
Animated Editorial Cartoonist Ann Telnaes and Cartoon Historian Warren Bernard were interviewed on the Bob Edwards Show about Ronald Searle who recently passed away last month.
The Success in Comics Seminar is now less than a month away. The Tundra guys, Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, have produced a little promo video:
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has interviewed Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. BILL GRIFFITH audio excerpt: “I’m sure somebody will be offended, which will be nice-to still offend somebody after all these years. People who only know Zippy comics through King Features will probably be surprised to see that Zippy was more […]
Heritage Auction will be auctioning off several highly prized pieces of comic art next month including on original Calvin & Hobbes cover art for Bill Watterson’s 1989-1990 18-month calendar that is expected to fetch more than $50,000. Due to Watterson’s reclusiveness and that he kept most of his artwork to himself, the few originals that […]
Pat Oliphant does a really nice job of making political points with extremely funny artwork. That’s important, not only because it results in memorable and effective commentary, but because many of the cloth-eared grammarians who edit newspapers think that all cartoons are supposed to be funny and won’t choose a political cartoon that doesn’t include […]