Jim Borgman has posted a write-up of what Zits looks like outside North America. Not acne, but the comic strip which is often renamed, recolored and republished in different formats in 27 countries and 15 different languages.Jim writes:The Zits foreign book publishing program has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But from […]
Anne Hambrock has reposted an excellent article detailing how she and her husband John went about self publishing their first collection of his strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. She mentions that they’re not selling the book on Amazon and offers this as one of the reasons:Which is when I realized that we had […]
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Drew Litton on the decision facing Indianapolis Colts Quarterback Peyton Manning, who is near, or perhaps at, the end of a brilliant 14-year career.Well, brilliant 13-year career. He sat out this past season after neck surgery described as “cervical neck fusion,” but it’s not clear whether the second operation was a follow-up on the first […]
Mikael Davud and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak have been found guilty of plotting to bomb the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten back in 2010. David Jakobsen, the third man arrested in connection with the plot was cleared of terror charges but still was convicted of helping to acquire explosives. From MSNBC:Prosecutors said the Norwegian cell first wanted […]
Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be releasing the first volume of a Complete Funky Winkerbean collection this year. The collection is being released to coincide with the feature’s 40th anniversary. The first volume will contain cartoons from the years 1972-1974. At the time Tom was a jr. high school art teacher and the carton […]
The Baltimore Brew reports that The Baltimore Sun is in talks with its former editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) to bring him back for a once-a-week cartoon. They contacted KAL for confirmation:“I have been in discussions with The Sun,” he wrote. “If all goes well, I would be starting [in] late February.” Kallaugher said the […]
The Star-Ledger is reporting that for a third straight year, the legendary Thomas Nast will not be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame after a few politicians and the Ancient Order of the Hibernians publicly objected to Nast’s anti-Irish and anti-Catholic views of his day.From the Star-Ledger:The main reason Nast went after the […]
Blondie is a strip so settled in its groove that most days you read it out of habit and with fairly low expectations. But when it’s not recycling the character-driven jokes — Dithers is a bully, Herb borrows tools, Dagwood likes to eat — there are some gems in there and it’s actually one of […]
Last nights massive arrest of 400 Occupy Oakland protesters included for a second time graphic journalist Susie Cagle. According to Susie’s Twitter stream she was caught in the police kettle where at one point she was thrown down by police during a charge that left her “numb for 5 minutes.” Four other credentialed journalists were […]
Pardon My Planet, with a cartoon I cannot relate to.Not the laundry part. Oh, I’m there.The fitting into your old clothes part. I think this cartoon is for people under 40.Eight or 10 years ago, I finally got rid of the suit I was married in at 21, realizing that I would never, ever be […]
Stuart Carlson riffs on what could turn out to be a magic moment in the campaign.At this point, I’m less interested in the fact that Newt Gingrich is promising to have a moon base up and running in nine years than I am in seeing who else — besides Carlson and Jon Stewart — is […]
Stephen Colbert visits with children’s book illustrator Maurice Sendak. Funny exchange. Warning: frequent use of the word “penis.”The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveVia GoComics
Dieselt Sweeties creator R Stevens decided to create an eBook using Apple’s newly released iBook Author. The result was a month’s worth of comics that was outputted as a PDF ebook. He estimates that it was downloaded 10,000 times. From GigaOm:Response to the format has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stevens said in a blog post, but […]
Steve Breen on an issue a lot of people wish would simply stay in the closet.But I started hearing about the conditions under which iPhones and iPads are made in China a little over a week ago, and have since seen the story in the New York Times and echoed elsewhere.It’s not the first time […]