Last year Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan did a reboot of sorts taking his character Poncho back to year one. He’s now compiled all of those strips into a book. What’s interesting about the book is that it’s not a straight compilation. He’s reworked some of the punchlines so that it fits a more sequential […]
South Florida Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe and former Tulsa World cartoonist Doug Marlette will be inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame later this month. Chan was the cartoonist for the Oklahoma City Times from 1978-1984 and Doug was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who had a brief tenure at the Tulsa […]
The Halloween cartoons have begun, and, so far, the most original story arc is coming from “Deflocked,” where Mamet is offended by a dog in a sheep costume.To properly appreciate this, you have to realize what an insensitive jerk Mamet is and how often he offends those around him. But I think Jeff Corriveau does […]
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Tom the Dancing Bug is always a fun read, though it tends to be inconsistent in that it’s sometimes simply a fun read and other times it’s a fun read with worthwhile insights.Note that it is always a fun read. Even when Ruben Bolling is phoning one in, it’s worth taking the call.And the moments […]
When Matt Bors posted this yesterday, I knew it was going to be the Comic Strip of the Day, a decision that, since I don’t have any sort of early access to strips, doesn’t normally come down until about five in the morning.But who’s going to do better than this? Who’s going to do this […]
You won’t get this Madam & Eve without you have seen this viral video from YouTube of a meeting between a hapless cyclist and a hartebeest:While the M&E gang apply it to South African events — and, hey, it happened down there, so they’re more than entitled to take it local — I don’t think […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall was commissioned to draw several cartoons for the movie “Ides of March” which involves a plot about a fictional presidential campaign. Here’s Ted’s email explaining his involvement. Earlier this year I received a phone call that led to one of the more interesting cartooning assignments of my career. The set designer […]
I reported a couple of years ago that Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe had been optioned for a movie by Sony Pictures. The movie has now taken one step close with the hire of Kelly Asbury to write the adaptation. Kelly was the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet.
Today’s Strange Brew make me laugh without provoking any great diatribe except that I’m really, really tired of zombies. Which I’ve already said, and yet they don’t stop.This is a good example of re-purposing a creaky premise. Vampires and blood banks have certainly met on the funny pages before, but in the current hard times, […]
This is the Learn to Draw video shown at this last year’s Reuben Award weekend. It’s also Tom Gammill’s 30th episode. In this installment, Foxtrot creator Bill Amend teaches recently retired Cathy Guisewite what to do with all her spare time.
Fleen blogger Gary Tyrrell has been helping Mia Wiesner (of the University of Applied Sciences in Liepzig) conduct a study of purchasing attitudes for digital comic content. He’s posted initial findings and has a more in depth look at the implications of the numbers yesterday.Final statistic for you: the largest single age cohort in the […]
Cory Pandolph, cartoonist for The Elderberries and creator of Bark Eater Lake and Toby, Robot Satan, sold a cartoon to The New Yorker back in June. The cartoon was published in this week’s edition. You can see the cartoon on The New Yorker’s website.
Loose Parts by Dave Blazek. And I can tell him what a couple of those mysterious buttons are for:1. Turn on the cable box but not the television.2. Now turn on the television but turn off the cable box.3. Disable the 1, 3 and 7 buttons on the key pad.
I’ve been watching the editorial cartoons dealing with the passing of Apple CEO and icon Steve Jobs. The subject is so rich with icons, imagery that I knew it was going to be heyday for cartoonists – and that several cartoonists would use the same imagery to create similar cartoons.Steve Jobs was an original, but […]