Dog Eat Doug is at its best when it offers up a small slice of semi-realistic kid-and-dog solidarity.Don’t get me wrong: I like it all the time. But these moments rise above.When I was growing up, we had this Rube Goldberg-style wooden highchair that, if you swapped it around this way and that, would become […]
Oh, that liberal Doonesbury!This is an unusual strip, not because Doonesbury doesn’t regularly target liberal foibles — of course it does, and always has — but because Trudeau is generally pretty specific in assigning them, and Walden (this professor’s claim to be the exception not withstanding) has always seemed to epitomize the kind of school […]
If you are a fan of Cul de Sac but not a frequent visitor to Richard Thompson’s blog, you’re missing half the fun.Given his years of illustration work and cartooning, Richard has an extensive backlog of wonderful things he can pull up for nearly any occasion, as with this 2003 salute to the Westminster Kennel […]
Yesterday, the National Cartoonists Society President Tom Richmond entered the fray over The New York Times’ invitation and submission policy for original editorial cartoons. No surprise that Tom takes a position against the spec work request. The Times is arguably the most well-known and prestigious newspaper in the United States. It should be championing and […]
Incidental Comics is a feature I keep on my gocomics list for moments like this.My prejudices have been stated several times, and my tastes lean heavily towards writing. Grant Snider’s work seems to lean heavily towards art. Our moments, then, do not often coincide, but, boy, when they do, it’s a lovely moment indeed.This being […]
As mentioned Tuesday, The New York Times sent out an email to editorial cartoonists announcing The Times was going to start running original editorial cartoons in their Sunday Review. The announcement landed like a rock once cartoonists read submission policy that required them to send finished spec work in every week for a small chance […]
Chris Sparks the mastermind and muscle behind the Team Cul de Sac project to raise funds for a cure for Parkinson’s Diseasehas released the names of the artists who will be featured in the Team Cul de Sac book that is due out in June. Here’s the list of artists: Bill Amend Brian Anderson Mark […]
Ali Ferzat, whose hands were beaten and left for dead by Syrian forces to silence his work, has joined nearly 50 other prominent Syrian artists in a resistance declaration. The statement, published on the French Le Monde newspaper’s website, declares their commitment to a new political order in Syria.Filmmakers, academics, musicians, women and men of […]
Speaking of “whining like little schoolgirls,” how did the Republicans, and conservatives in general, go from preaching tough self-reliance to playing the victim card on every hand?Kirk Walters poses the question and I don’t have an answer.In this particular case, I watched the Super Bowl Sunday with a friend who is so far into libertarian […]
On February 15, Cartoon Movement will launch the first monthly installment of Army Of God, an ambitious 100 page work of comics journalism by David Axe and Tim Hamilton focusing on the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Congo, the people they’ve terrorized, and the people fighting back. Based on David Axe’s reporting from the Democratic […]
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is saluting a number of cartoonists that have lived, worked or been educated in Columbus, OH. In honor of the city’s 200th birthday, several of the cities notable artists’ work will be on display. Exhibiting artists include: Billy Ireland, Milton Caniff, Harry J. Westerman, Eugene […]
Illustrator, cartoonist Edward Sorel was profiled by NY1 about his work drawing covers for prestigious magazines like The New Yorker, The Nation, Esquire, Time.To Sorel, tracing is cheating. “If you don’t trace, it’s art. If you trace, it’s illustration,” says Sorel. “For me, working direct is fine art, and tracing is commercial art. That’s the […]
Blaine, The Hamilton Spectator’s editorial cartoonist for 30 years, passed away on Sunday evening at the age of 74. He had retired from the paper in 1993. Blaine was anything but bland. He had a black belt in karate, played guitar and sang, liked wearing cowboy boots and jewellery and was remembered for driving motorcycles […]
Keith Knight with a dignified tribute to a dignified man. I never quite got how Don Cornelius, who seemed so grown-up and cool-in-the-dispassionate-sense fit in with the music he featured. But that was part of the deal, and, while it was good to bring soul to mainstream audiences, I was old enough by then to […]
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to run an original editorial cartoon in the Sunday The Week in Review starting February 26. At issue is the Times’ offer to pay $250 to the selected cartoonist, but requires all entrants to submit original, […]