I skipped the donation drive last year. I spent quite a lot of time reflecting if the blog was the best use of my time. Quite honestly for several weeks I considered walking away – even going as far as researching how to sell the blog and writing a draft announcing that it was going […]
I suspect that the kids who had Lincoln Peirce as an art teacher or coach in high school had a pretty good time. He seems to have a good sense of their lives.Big Nate is immensely popular with middle-school kids, and I suspect it’s because Peirce remembers what it was like, but, rather than totally […]
John Sherffius, of late the cartoonist for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado, makes a statement that doesn’t involve a lot of fireworks or snark, but which seems sensible and very worth saying.There have been a couple of those lately, not so much from the ranks of editorial cartoonists as in the form of signs […]
A Kickstarter project has been started to raise $30,000 for a statue of Harvey Pekar to be placed the Cleveland Heights public library, a place Harvey often would go to work. Harvey’s connection to the library and librarians he loved is described in this last video, as well. But, if you really did read all […]
I don’t always agree with Ted Rall’s black-and-white, hero-or-villain view of politics, but I like this cartoon a lot.It puts me in mind of Canadian comedian/performance artist Sandra Shamas, who used to talk about going to the Woolworth’s in Sudbury as a kid to interpret for her Lebanese-born mother and grandmother, who were under the […]
Susie Cagle, the lone comic/graphic journalist reporting in the Occupy Oakland protest, has been released from jail last night after being charged with a misdemeanor “present at raid”. She has been covering the protests for the last three weeks and despite having her credentials out in plain sight and even recognized by one of the […]
Michael Cavna writes about the cartoon that the Occupy Wall Street ran in their own newspaper. As The Post’s Elizabeth Flock has noted, Freedom Plaza’s Occupy D.C. protestors on Tuesday published their own “official” newspaper, titled The Occupied Washington Post . (No affiliation to our humble news outlet up the street, natch.) And on Page-6 […]
From Comics Beat: Diamond has signed with Rovio, maker of the game sensation Angry Birds, to distribute their growing line of books ? presumably by launching them from a slingshot through the windows of comics shops, bookstores and mass market retailers around the world. A worldwide sensation, the Angry Birds game has been downloaded over […]
Dave Whamond’s “Reality Check” cracked me up today, and the bit of dialogue at the bottom is more of an enhancement than is usual for marginalia.And, once you know who they are, it gets funnier: A roomful of workaholics with their Smartphones out is as funny as an AA meeting with everyone clutching a glass […]
Susie Cagle, the only embedded comic journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement, was arrested early this morning in Oakland after police fired teargas and flash bang grenades to clear a downtown street after protestors lit a large bonfire. According to CBS News at least 30 people were arrested and Susie reports through Twitter that […]
Charlie Hebdo, The French satirical magazine, was petro bombed last night. The BBC reports that the offices were destroyed a day after the magazine announced the Prophet Muhammad would be its editor-in-chief in the next issue and ran a caricature of the Prophet. The issue was supposed to celebrate the victory of the recent Tunisian […]
As promised by the Urban Tulsa publisher, Keith Skrzypczak, today’s edition contains the formal response from the paper regarding the accusations of plagiarism by its cartoonist David Simpson. Noted is the news that Simpson has stated that he is retiring from editorial cartooning.Dave Simpson, an award-winning, nationally syndicated former editorial cartoonist with the erstwhile afternoon […]
Susie MacNelly, Jeff’s widow, has written the following which I’m sharing with her permission: Mike Peters so accurately described David Simpson as a cartoon kleptomaniac. Tulsa must be in a black hole with different journalistic ethics because neither Simpson nor his editor/publisher seem repentant. His editor wanted me to write the retraction….I declined. Mr. Simpson’s […]
Pros & Cons dabbles in a bit of politics today, if only because “serving on the board” is a phrase so widely misunderstood by the public at large.I served on the board of the local United Way for a time, and on the board of the local chapter of Literacy Volunteers, as well as on […]
Jeff MacNelly’s widow, Susie MacNelly, received an apology letter from the now former Urban Tulsa editorial cartoonist David Simpson admitting he “stole” Jeff’s Jimmy Carter cartoon that was brought to light last week. With her permission, I’m sharing that letter.Here is the original letter:Dear Susan: I’m very sorry that I stole Jeff’s Carter cartoon from […]