Not sure where this story arc in Agnes is going, except that Agnes is one of those strips that, when it suddenly heads off somewhere unexpected, you jump in and hang on, because you know it won’t be a waste of your attention.I do know that Agnes and her grandmother are headed off to visit […]

The recent cases of alleged plagiarism by Jeff Stahler (Post Dispatch) and David Simpson (Urban Tulsa) in the last couple of months has raised the question of journalism standards and cartooning.Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe writing for Editor and Publisher writes reactions from AAEC President John Cole, a statement from Jeff MacNelly from 1990 and Matt […]

I like Pat Oliphant’s cartoon. He manages to portray Gingrich as both the Pharisee in the temple and the man praying on the street corner, which isn’t a hard combo, since they are both people who would rather be thought of as religious than actually embrace the values of religion.On the other hand, Matthew quotes […]

Mike Lynch took the time to scan photos of Jerry Robinson from various NCS events.

Based on a report by Mediabistro’s Fishbowl LA, several of us reported that misdemeaner charges against cartoonist, journalist Susie Cagle had been dropped after the Co-Chairs of the Freedom of Information Committee of The Society of Professional Journalists wrote a letter to the mayor and police chief. According to a letter posted on Daryl Cagle’s […]

Frank Gorshin used to complain that most impressionists didn’t do impressions of the celebrities they were supposed to be imitating, but rather did impressions of other impressionists imitating those celebrities.Instead of imitating Kirk Douglas, they imitated Gorshin imitating Kirk Douglas. Instead of imitating Richard Nixon, they imitated David Frye imitating Richard Nixon. Instead of imitating […]

Timing is everything in comedy, they say, and Tak Bui’s timing with this PC & Pixel was pretty good.Thursday I had to hang around for a conference call from another time zone and it didn’t wrap up until a few minutes after four p.m. here, which meant I had to immediately throw the dog into […]

Jeff Stahler has resigned from his staff postion at the Columbus Dispatch yesterday according to an email from his editor to Steve Myers at the Poynter Institute. Jeff’s work came under scrutinty this week after his Sunday cartoon was found to be strikingly close to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress. A couple […]

“That is Priceless” is a new feature at GoComics, having started October 31, but you can find a significant backlog at Steve Melcher’s blog, where he has apparently been adding irreverent titles to great art since 2009. There’s even a book of them, if you’re still shopping for Christmas or Channukah or the Epiphany or […]

Personally, the supporting cast (the penguins and King Julien XIII) are the funniest things about the Madagascar movies. Trailer got a couple chortles out of me (scenes involving penguins and Julien). Opens June 8, 2012.

The Nucleus Gallery is opening an exhibit of homage art to Jim Henson’s influence tomorrow night.Their description:Jim Henson’s accomplishments have left a widespread and enduring impression on generations of admirers since his first endeavors in the late 1950s. From his iconic and colorful cast on Sesame Street to the groundbreaking fantasy Dark Crystal, Henson’s imagination […]

City Paper, a weekly in Philadelphia, is charging cartoonists to donate their cartoons AND pay $5 to submit cartoons for the annual Comics Issue. The collective $5 is then divied out to those cartoonists that are published.According to Jim Romenesko, the plan didn’t go over so well.I saw the one comment from a cartoonist who […]

Normally, I would bristle at an Irish drinking joke, except that there’s no suggestion of overindulgence in today’s Stone Soup and, rather to the contrary, the point is that Evie appreciates good beer.Evie appreciates a lot of things, to the continual consternation of those who keep expecting her to act her age.Whatever that means.Jan Eliot […]

Jerry Robinson, perhaps best known for creating Batman’s famous enemy The Joker, has passed away at the age of 89. From Comic Book Resources: Over the course of his early years in comics, Robinson proved a creative and social dynamo, moonlighting as a comics artist on projects such as the infamous “created in one night” […]

Reporters Without Borders and French newspaper Le Monde have announced the recipients of The 2011 Press Freedom Prize. Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat was honored for his cartoons that “depict the abuses of Syria’s regime, which has come under growing criticism this year for its efforts to tamp down a growing pro-democracy movement”Also honored was the […]