You’re not going to get a lot out of today’s CSOTD without going to the actual site, Cartoon Movement, because there you will find 10 pages of Sarah Glidden’s reporting from Occupy Miami, of which this is only the first.Let me assure you that it is worth the trip and, not only does 10 pages […]
How about your name attached to a newly discovered dinosaur?The pterosaur identified by Dr David Martill at the university’s school of earth and environmental studies, is named Cuspicephalus scarfi – after Gerald Scarfe, the political cartoonist who depicted Mrs Thatcher as a pointy-nosed ‘Torydactyl’.
Stephanie Piro has an interesting post about the adventure she’s had and is embarking on to keep a favorite (discontinued) pen flowing.I was down to just a couple of working pens… even after Friend of Friends Steve bought me a couple for my birthday (!) on ebay! I have written about my search for other […]
Mike Lynch purchased an antique Saturday Evening Post and has posted scans of the cartoons from the June 30-July 7, 1962 edition.Check out all 16.
Persepolis is an animated film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up in Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. It contains a scene showing a character representing God and that has cause outrage in Tunisia where it was broadcast. The television station was sued and another uproar was had when the scene was played in […]
I took the family to see Puss in Boots Sunday (go ahead and skip it or wait for DVD) and saw the Tintin trailer during the previews. I whispered to my wife just how big Tintin is in Europe. She’d not heard of Tintin before and I suspect most in the audience hadn’t either.The LA […]
The Team Cul de Sac has added few more additions to the collection. I think the deadline has officially passed, but Sergio Aragones submits something, I think it’s accepted. Visit the TCdS site to see the Serio addition.Nick Galifianakis has also donated a drawing along with high praise:“The Searleing of Richard Thompson,” or, “The Blessing […]
I’ve been kind of waiting for “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” to come up with something unusually brilliant so that I could address a issue to the gathered multitudes.And here we are, with a strip so disgusting that it would, indeed, have made CSOTD without any overriding motivation on my part.The only thing I’ll […]
Good news for those of us watching print media struggle to gain sufficient advertising revenue as they transition to digital. The Atlantic magazine’s online advertising revenue has overtaken its print revenue for the first time.The Atlantic, which expects to make about $18.6 million from advertising this year, or slightly more than half of its total […]
The Kickstarter project to fund a Harvey Pekar Library Statue has raised the $30,000 required and still has 13 more days. So far 667 people have donated.
Today’s Free Range is, on the one hand, rather silly. And we like that around here.And, on the other hand, there is a serious point about the concept of “a jury of your peers.” I suppose, in the days of Magna Carta (a few years ago, we stopped saying “the Magna Carta,” for reasons that […]
This is so cool. Legendary cartoonist Sergio Aragones has joined the Team Cul de Sac effort with a piece that stands alone as a tribute to Alice’s scary powers of being Alice.And the coolest part is that, giant in the form that he is, he’s not necessarily the biggest giant in the list of cartoonists […]
One of the advantages of a DailyInk subscription is the ability to add classic strips to your daily diet, and I’ve really been enjoying this 1952 Rip Kirby storyline.Not only is the art terrific, but the pacing is equally painstaking. Alex Raymond has been setting up this storyline for over a month and we have […]
The guardian reports cartoonist Michael Mitchell is suing the BBC after seeing the program Kerwhizz and saw similarities between a proposal package he pitched them in 2007. Mitchell claims the Kerwhizz character “Ninki” was derived from a combination of his two characters Simrita and Jomo, that “Twist” was copied from his character Charlie and that […]
Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey is exhibiting his work along side his mother’s paintings.From King 5 News: “I got it from him!” claims Jeanne, on who started drawing first. It wasn’t until 16 years ago, after raising her kids and burying her husband that Jeanne picked up a pencil and started creating. David jokes his […]