Nice insight into a recent cartoon by Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich over on Michael Cavna’s blog:“I’d come up with another idea,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist tells Comic Riffs not three hours after his sudden pivot. … “Thankfully, my editor didn’t think it was my best effort and told me,” […]
Cool video found by Mike Lynch of Winsor McCay screening his first animation “Gertie the Dinosaur” to his fellow cartoonists. Mike writes:What was it like when Winsor McCay screened his animated film GERTIE THE DINOSAUR for his New York Tribune cartoonist pals? Allan Holtz shares this article from the February 23, 1914 Tribune. The film […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday exhibit will be opening in the Toonseum in Pittsburgh on December 9. The exhibit brings original cartoon art all drawn for the same Sunday (April 11) in 2010. ToonSeum Executive Director Joe Wos says he had to narrow the exhibit down to comics that run locally or he thinks should […]
I don’t have an iron-clad rule about avoiding political cartoons, as regular readers will know and newcomers can find by scrolling through the recent past. But I’ve been consciously putting them second or third in the daily queue as I collect the three or four potential candidates for CSOTD, for a couple of reasons.One is […]
Congratulations to Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power of MyCage fame for getting their Santa vs Dracula graphic novel funded through Kickstarter. They raised just over $10,000 of their $9,500 goal with 242 donors.
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has written about his experience working with ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham to create a new character for his comedy routine. The new character is AJ, the son of Achmed the Dead Terrorist.Early in the summer of 2010 I received a call from some gentlemen out in LA who represented world-famous […]
Lawyer jokes are too easy, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid them entirely. Otherwise, we’d miss things like today’s Non Sequitur.I don’t dislike lawyers in private life. They are, for the most part, intelligent and well-informed, with a quick wit necessary to the profession which is then further honed on years of noting irregularities, […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has kicked off their annual donation drive. All donations are tax deductible and there are other options of support such as in-kind donations.
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby.If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the Jack […]
Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) was featured on the Carson Daly show during the Carson Daly show. Here’s his clip:
Notice in today’s Blondie that, in this carpool of four white folks ticking off their favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, not one of them said, “macaroni and cheese.”I’m highlighting the venerable old strip not because today’s installment cracked me up but because it segues neatly into an infuriating example of rampant online stupidity.In case […]
Sorry, all. Have a funeral in my extended family that I am attending today.Hope you’re Thanksgiving weekend was great. I’ll be back tomorrow.UPDATE: Looks like I have a few minutes before I head out of town, so I’ve thrown a couple of stories up.
Sandra Bell Lundy is an expert at capturing small moments, and today’s “Between Friends” is a good example of how she likes to celebrate and deflate the absurdities and inconsistencies of life.It took me awhile to get into this strip, because she employs a realistic level of self-deprecating humor that is not the norm, even […]
Well, not quite new, since this is Episode Two of The Conjurers, a weekly on-line strip by Brian Anderson that updates Mondays, but Episode One is only a click away, so catching up is no problem.Brian also does the very different syndicated strip “Dog Eat Doug,” which, I think, proves nothing except that it’s possible […]
Sad news from Daryl Cagle: You?ve been with the Denver Post since 1975. What are you looking forward to most with the free time you?ve just given yourself? My wife, who is still working, asked me how I was going to spend my days. I said, ?Three words: Turner Classic Movies.? She was not amused. […]