The National Cartoonists Society has created a new and separate award category for webcomics this year in its division awards. The category is simply named “On-Line Comic Strips” and requires that the feature be a comic strip (no single panel or long-form narrative), appear on the web only at least weekly, and the creator has […]
Herblock had little patience for Barry Goldwater’s pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstraps attitude towards the poor, and expresses it in straightforward fashion with this 1961 broadside.God knows what he’d make of Mitt Romney. Of course, Mitt didn’t inherit a department store. He didn’t even inherit a car company. We don’t pass on actual businesses to our children anymore. When […]
The Berndt Toast Gang is honoring one of their founding members, Creig Flessel, with an exhibit of his work during the month of January. The 26 piece exhibit is on display Art League of Long Island throughout the month with a reception on the 27th with other Long Island NCS chapter members displaying their take […]
Cartoon Movement editors Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards spent a month in Haiti earlier this year with the goal of finding an artist and writers for a comic journalism project to document the issues facing that country after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The first chapter of the book “Tents Beyond Tents” will be released on […]
This cartoon was on my office wall for several years, back in the middle-late 70s. It came from a magazine, but I don’t remember which one — only that it had good reviews of sports cars, stereo equipment and wine, excellent fiction and insightful interviews, which is why I bought it. I never really bothered […]
The Knight Life with a double-swipe — one at the economy and one at the ironic hipsters who made PBR a well-known acronym.There is no such thing as ironic beer. Beer comes in two basic forms: Good beer and Bad beer. It is a continuum and there are plenty of beers that are “okay,” and […]
Pearls Before Swine and I are running a terrible risk today.It’s a funny gag, but if you mention any computer problem on line, you get comments about how you are using the wrong computer and the wrong operating system and how, if you simply yank out the virtual guts and replace them with brilliant things […]
Mark Anderson, creator of Andertoons, has relaunched a redesign of his cartoon commerce site. The new site boasts of a better search engine, faster load times (upwards of 600%!), larger cartoons and a cleaner interface for finding the perfect cartoon.Mark has one of the best comic commerce sites on the web. If I were to […]
In light of the recent passing of Ronald Searle Gallery Nucleus (Alhambra CA) is opening a special exhibit tomorrow featuring the great British cartoonist and illustrator.Gallery Nucleus is honored to present the world-renowned cartoonist and illustrator, Ronald Searle, for a special solo exhibition. Searle has been an influential figure in the cartooning world since the […]
PRI interviews Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat who is now in Kuwait recouping from the being beaten by Syrian authorities who attempted to silence the cartoonist by clubbing and breaking his hands. Accompanying story also includes a slideshow of his work and descriptions of some of the cartoons critical of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that lead […]
A bit off topic, but a source of befuddled humor this morning. I use a lot of Google Alerts to find news of interest for the blog. As I was quickly going through the list I noticed several headlines from The Journal News (NY) about horrible events but all mentioned the newly launched Gil comic. […]
Kirk Walters with a spot-on metaphor for what happened in Iowa Tuesday and what it means for Rick Santorum and the next few weeks of the GOP Death March.What I particularly like about it is the innocence mixed with cruelty. Little kids do this to ants, and it isn’t nice but it doesn’t arise to […]
Brevity co-creators Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry have added Dan Thompson to their team. Dan is the creator of Rip Haywire (also syndicated through Universal Uclick). Dan is credited on the title of the strip over on GoComcis.com.
Just a reminder that we’re a few weeks away from Success in the World of Comics Seminar (February 25-26) in Vegas put on by the Tundra marketing genius Bill Kellogg and creator Chad Carpenter. If you didn’t attend the first you can read my notes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. […]
One of the things Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman always hear is that Zits opens conversations between parents and adolescents, whether that day’s strip features Jeremy or his folks as the butt of the joke. That’s probably why Zits is one of the top strips in terms of the number of papers that feature it, […]