This cartoon was on my office wall for several years, back in the middle-late 70s. It came from a magazine, but I don’t remember which one — only that it had good reviews of sports cars, stereo equipment and wine, excellent fiction and insightful interviews, which is why I bought it. I never really bothered […]
The Knight Life with a double-swipe — one at the economy and one at the ironic hipsters who made PBR a well-known acronym.There is no such thing as ironic beer. Beer comes in two basic forms: Good beer and Bad beer. It is a continuum and there are plenty of beers that are “okay,” and […]
Pearls Before Swine and I are running a terrible risk today.It’s a funny gag, but if you mention any computer problem on line, you get comments about how you are using the wrong computer and the wrong operating system and how, if you simply yank out the virtual guts and replace them with brilliant things […]
Mark Anderson, creator of Andertoons, has relaunched a redesign of his cartoon commerce site. The new site boasts of a better search engine, faster load times (upwards of 600%!), larger cartoons and a cleaner interface for finding the perfect cartoon.Mark has one of the best comic commerce sites on the web. If I were to […]
In light of the recent passing of Ronald Searle Gallery Nucleus (Alhambra CA) is opening a special exhibit tomorrow featuring the great British cartoonist and illustrator.Gallery Nucleus is honored to present the world-renowned cartoonist and illustrator, Ronald Searle, for a special solo exhibition. Searle has been an influential figure in the cartooning world since the […]
PRI interviews Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat who is now in Kuwait recouping from the being beaten by Syrian authorities who attempted to silence the cartoonist by clubbing and breaking his hands. Accompanying story also includes a slideshow of his work and descriptions of some of the cartoons critical of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad that lead […]
A bit off topic, but a source of befuddled humor this morning. I use a lot of Google Alerts to find news of interest for the blog. As I was quickly going through the list I noticed several headlines from The Journal News (NY) about horrible events but all mentioned the newly launched Gil comic. […]
Kirk Walters with a spot-on metaphor for what happened in Iowa Tuesday and what it means for Rick Santorum and the next few weeks of the GOP Death March.What I particularly like about it is the innocence mixed with cruelty. Little kids do this to ants, and it isn’t nice but it doesn’t arise to […]
Brevity co-creators Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry have added Dan Thompson to their team. Dan is the creator of Rip Haywire (also syndicated through Universal Uclick). Dan is credited on the title of the strip over on GoComcis.com.
Just a reminder that we’re a few weeks away from Success in the World of Comics Seminar (February 25-26) in Vegas put on by the Tundra marketing genius Bill Kellogg and creator Chad Carpenter. If you didn’t attend the first you can read my notes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. […]
One of the things Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman always hear is that Zits opens conversations between parents and adolescents, whether that day’s strip features Jeremy or his folks as the butt of the joke. That’s probably why Zits is one of the top strips in terms of the number of papers that feature it, […]
I mentioned this event back in November, but if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area don’t forget to put the Cartoon Art Museum’s Black and White and Read All Over exhibit on your calendar. The museum is also hosting Keith Knight and Stephan Pastis on the 12th of January wherein they’ll discuss their comics […]
A few newspapers have shuffled their comic page offerings to start the new year.The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) picked up Cul de Sac on Sundays. The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, FL) picked up Cul de Sac for both daily and Sunday.The Bakersfield Californian dropped Fred Basset to pick up Cul de Sac and readers nearly […]
If you ask Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson who were some of his greatest influences, he’ll mention Ronald Searle. After the news broke of Ronald’s passing yesterday, Michael Cavna asked Richard about his influence:Searle’s style was so powerful that any other artist who mimicked its effects was pretty quickly overwhelmed by it and exposed […]
Today’s “In the Bleachers” takes aim at a sports cliche so ingrained in the game of football that it seems more like terminology than jock talk.The sports department is an oddity at any daily paper. Even at a morning paper (as most are these days), the sports guys come in later and work later, because […]