Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be releasing the first volume of a Complete Funky Winkerbean collection this year. The collection is being released to coincide with the feature’s 40th anniversary. The first volume will contain cartoons from the years 1972-1974. At the time Tom was a jr. high school art teacher and the carton […]
The Baltimore Brew reports that The Baltimore Sun is in talks with its former editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) to bring him back for a once-a-week cartoon. They contacted KAL for confirmation:“I have been in discussions with The Sun,” he wrote. “If all goes well, I would be starting [in] late February.” Kallaugher said the […]
The Star-Ledger is reporting that for a third straight year, the legendary Thomas Nast will not be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame after a few politicians and the Ancient Order of the Hibernians publicly objected to Nast’s anti-Irish and anti-Catholic views of his day.From the Star-Ledger:The main reason Nast went after the […]
Blondie is a strip so settled in its groove that most days you read it out of habit and with fairly low expectations. But when it’s not recycling the character-driven jokes — Dithers is a bully, Herb borrows tools, Dagwood likes to eat — there are some gems in there and it’s actually one of […]
Last nights massive arrest of 400 Occupy Oakland protesters included for a second time graphic journalist Susie Cagle. According to Susie’s Twitter stream she was caught in the police kettle where at one point she was thrown down by police during a charge that left her “numb for 5 minutes.” Four other credentialed journalists were […]
Pardon My Planet, with a cartoon I cannot relate to.Not the laundry part. Oh, I’m there.The fitting into your old clothes part. I think this cartoon is for people under 40.Eight or 10 years ago, I finally got rid of the suit I was married in at 21, realizing that I would never, ever be […]
Stuart Carlson riffs on what could turn out to be a magic moment in the campaign.At this point, I’m less interested in the fact that Newt Gingrich is promising to have a moon base up and running in nine years than I am in seeing who else — besides Carlson and Jon Stewart — is […]
Stephen Colbert visits with children’s book illustrator Maurice Sendak. Funny exchange. Warning: frequent use of the word “penis.”The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveVia GoComics
Dieselt Sweeties creator R Stevens decided to create an eBook using Apple’s newly released iBook Author. The result was a month’s worth of comics that was outputted as a PDF ebook. He estimates that it was downloaded 10,000 times. From GigaOm:Response to the format has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stevens said in a blog post, but […]
Steve Breen on an issue a lot of people wish would simply stay in the closet.But I started hearing about the conditions under which iPhones and iPads are made in China a little over a week ago, and have since seen the story in the New York Times and echoed elsewhere.It’s not the first time […]
Illinois Times is reporting that Chris Britt has been let go from his staff editorial cartoonist job at the State Journal-Register. “I was just informed,” Britt said. Britt, who began his career as an editorial cartoonist in 1990 and joined the State Journal-Register staff nine years later, said he wasn’t sure whether he was given […]
Friend-of-the-blog Sandra Lundy is in the process of giving the ladies of Between Friends a bit of an update. I guess it began with Maeve’s new haircut, but now she’s making Susan try to climb out of schlumpdom.Which is sorta-kinda an ongoing theme in the strip, except that there was a recent series that, she […]
Botswana cartoonist Stephen Gaongalelwe was removed from a court proceeding and his drawings confescated after security officers noticed him drawing during the court session. He was there on assignment by a newspaper editor and told he couldn’t get the drawings back without a letter from the editor describing the purpose of the drawings. According to […]
Former Herald Sun cartoonist Geoffrey “Jeff” Hook will be honored with a Medal of the Order of Australia for outstanding achievement and service. From the Herald Sun:But he believes the honour recognises all of Australia’s cartoonists for their efforts in shaping the political and news landscape of Australia. “It’s a tribute to the influence that […]
Cartoonist and illustrator John Lara has passed away at an early age of 57. His cartoons appeared in many Southern California papers and nationally. Away from the drawing board, he served as master of ceremonies for the Brooks Street Surfing Classic and was a guest speaker for “Let’s Hook Up,” which referred to fishing in […]