Tom Racine interviewes Anne Hambrock on her efforts to bring together the 2nd annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. From Tall Tale Radio:Anne Hambrock, wife of John Hambrock of “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” and colorist for the strip, is deep in the throes of organizing the 2nd Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She threw this […]

In Big Nate, Nate has decided to cash in on the market for romance novels by writing a bodice-ripper set in the War of 1812.By coincidence, yesterday I got to see the printer’s dummy for my historical novel, aimed at middle-school kids like Nate, which is also set in the War of 1812. And I […]

I like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal a lot, but this one touched off mostly memories of how much this wasn’t my experience. That wouldn’t have seemed as striking except that, for some reason I can’t identify, I’ve gone through a sequence of dreams in the last week or so that involved old girlfriends. Nothing erotic, mind […]

Interesting historical photos post over at Retronaut. Hard to imagine this being acceptable today.“I?ve been the owner of these swimsuits since 1950. It was a fashion show held by the manufacturer in their showroom in Manhattan to present their new line, entitled ?the autograph suit.? It could be drawn on or signed and would not […]

iO9 reviews Katie Cook and her webcomic Gronk. Gronk is a sweet comic, devoid of malice (except, perhaps, toward Canadian geese, but they’re jerks). But Gronk herself is, for all of her adorableness, a fully fleshed out character. She’s imaginative and playful, but she’s also selfish and doesn’t think her actions all the way through. […]

Veteran comic writer and editor Mark Waid is stepping into webcomics launching a new site called ThrillbentFrom the website: THRILLBENT was created because John Rogers and I believe strongly that comics can and will be a thriving mass medium in the digital age if-IF-they’re created for modern media devices and not exclusively for printed pamphlets […]

There have been a lot of political cartoons on the topic of a web ad from the Obama campaign in which Bill Clinton discusses the decision to go after bin Laden in Pakistan. I like John Branch’s take because it goes beyond the immediate and addresses the overall topic.First, here’s the ad, which I hadn’t […]

MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has posted news on his blog that his book “The Mad Art of Caricature!” has gone into a second printing and he’s signed with a distributor so that bookstores can carry it. This is fantastic news. “The Mad Art of Caricature!” is one of those books that should belong on […]

Cyriaque Lamar has a funny piece on last month’s Mark Trail story-line about finding Mark going “John Rambo on marijuana farmers.” I admit, I missed the whole story and am not that familiar with the strip as a whole, but she makes a good point about how much wildlife is peppered throughout the strip. But […]

Watch Web Appraisal:1930s Buck Rogers Comic Strip by Dick Calkins on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.

I think this is the first time I’ve revisited a story arc, except for occasionally featuring an update at the bottom of the posting. First time I’ve gone there twice for a full post.But the chocolate milk arc at Deflocked has taken some twists and turns and, while I already did a mini-update a few […]

Scott Adams on a recently killed Dilbert strip: My editor thinks this comic is inappropriate for newspapers. He might be right. You won’t see this one published anywhere else.

Today kicks off a four-week story-line in Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean around the topic of a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. I reviewed the series last week. I’ve scanned the news this morning looking for newspapers who are telling their readers that they’ve pulled the strip or moved it off the comics pages, […]

Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch out For and creator/author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has a new book out entitled Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. The New York Times gives it a favorable review:Bechdel weaves emotional honesty with highbrow deliberation in a way that is never burdensome, and mostly light. […]

Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on any but the low-hanging, sparkly fruit.Granted, the GSA scandal is easy coverage, since there’s no possible justification for the wretched excess involved, and I suspect that, if they had gone to Seattle, stayed in penthouse suites and gorged on Kobe beef and caviar while […]