I like Speed Bump. There are days when Dave Coverly’s comic logic scratches that itch in the back of my mind, the part of the brain that is kind of dozing and jolts awake with a funny kind of “What? What?” when this sort of thing forces it to concentrate for a moment.It’s like getting […]
As many of you are aware last week I ran my annual donation drive with a goal of raising the equivalent of $7.25 (minimum wage) for the work I do here on the blog. When the dust had settled my readers donated the equivalent of $4.77. A bit shy of the goal, but it surpassed […]
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this admission is a life lesson for all of us.“I always think of myself as a cartoonist who couldn’t crack into newspapers,” he said recently by phone. Kinney created the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” main […]
This last weekend was a rare event at the Savannah College of Art and Design. SCAD brought together several of the cartoonists from MAD Magazine: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., Nick Meglin, ?Duck? Edwing, Sergio Aragones, Sam Viviano and Tom Richmond. The AP did a story covering the event with the angle of […]
Mark Anderson (Andertoons) has scanned and posted several panels from Bil Keane’s 1966 book Jest in Pun. Bil was the master of Pun.
What, twice in four days? Well, yes, but this Ed Stein comic is his syndicated strip, “Freshly Squeezed,” about a family dealing with the new economy. Friday’s praise was for Ed Stein’s editorial cartoon about Europe dealing with the new economy.What can I say? The dude’s on a roll.Ed is one of the talented journalists […]
Mrs. Otterloop must be thinking of life in some other world, where trees are at least 30 or 40 years old, and not spindly saplings propped up with wires and wrapped in protective tape like they are in the Cul de Sac.Generals always want to fight the last war and parents always want to get […]
The Penn State controversy is so loaded with rich targets that it would be much easier to compile the cartoons it has inspired than to pick one that stands out. But I think Mike Keefe cut through a lot of chaff and got to the base with this panel.This is a situation where the overriding […]
Today being Veterans Day, I thought it might be nice to look back at some of the cartoonists who put their talents to use while serving in the military. The National Constitution Center, who created the exhibit Art of the American Soldier, was kind enough to send me a list of cartoonists they featured in […]
Hark a Vagrant webcomic creator Kate Beaton is on her book tour promoting her book and as the CTV National News reports her fans were lined up around the block (click through link to watch video).Her book was also named in Amazon’s Best Comics and Graphic Novels for 2011. And has been on the New […]
Scott Coen profiles Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price for WGGB. Here’s the video interview:
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo has written that for the next story-line in her webcomic Velia, Dear, she’s experimenting with starting a story-line with no end in mind.What am I getting at? It?s this ? the next story line is one that I am writing without a clear end in mind. This is a very […]
One of the old, hoary standbys of learning about political cartoons in high school is the list of symbols to be memorized: The bear is Russia, the bulldog is Great Britain, Uncle Sam is America, plus the list of landmarks like Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal.We teach political cartoons the way […]
Ger Apeldoorn has posted a considerable collection of Bil Keane’s other feature Channel Chuckles that ran from 1954 through 1976 (Family Circus launched in 1960). Here’s Ger explaining Channel Chuckles: Like Family Circle it was a daily cartoon series with a larger selection of gags on the Sunday. Keane kept this going for almost 20 […]
The National Constitution Center featured Family Circus creator Bil Keane in their exhibit “Art of the American Soldier.” They’ve now posted video of an interview they did about his work during his time in the Army in World War II. Part I Interview with Bil Keane, Part 1 from National Constitution Center on Vimeo.Part II […]