“I just happened to be passing by.”Over at Comics Riffs, Michael Cavna is marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Herblock, which is appropriate because they are Washington Post people and because Herblock was a giant.It’s worth a look not just to hear what other cartoonists have to say about him, and not just […]

Zombie Boy creator Mark Stokes found a rejection note sent to Marmaduke creator Brad Anderson around 1958 by an unknown syndicate editor. See Mark’s site for the photo of the note which reads, “This one is a preposterous as the one showing Marmaduke sitting in the barber’s chair, remember? I just can’t buy this one!”From […]

Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder is the co-writer to a new film coming out this January financed by George Lucas about the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. The movie is entitled “Red Tails” and is due out in January.Mr. Hemingway said that Mr. Lucas, who served as executive producer on the film, was a “great […]

Alan Scherstuhl looks at 10 reasons why Prince Valiant should be better known as one of the best action heroes.He’s part Errol Flynn, part gritty badass, part Joseph Campbell myth on the make, part nostalgic vessel for our grandparents’ yearning for some more civilized age, part Mel Gibson-style torture survivor, even part MMORPG knight slowly […]

Stuart Carlson does, I think, a particularly fine job with this cartoon in that he does not telegraph whether he feels the politician is sincerely puzzled or purposefully ignoring the messages from the crowd. As the cartoon says, the message — including some very specific concepts — is out there to be heard by those […]

Interview by TVO on Patricia Storms’ new book The Pirate and the PenguinVia Sandra Bell-Lundy

As I mentioned in an earlier post, The Miami Herald picked up seven new features including Richard Thompson‘s Cul de Sac. The paper introduced the addition with a profile of Richard, his work and how he manages his Parkinsons disease.

The Miami Herald has bucked the trend of cutting comics and has added four additional comics to their line-up. In all seven new strips were added. Three comics (For Better or For Worse, Barney and Clyde, and Shortcuts) were dropped. The new features starting in both the daily and Sunday pages include: Cul-de-Sac and The […]

Last week I posted links to several observations that Apple CEO, a buddhist by most accounts, was largely depicted at the Pearly Gates in the numerous obit cartoons. At least one cartoonist opted to recognize Jobs’ buddhist beliefs. Click the cartoon snippet below to see the full cartoon:

Last year Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan did a reboot of sorts taking his character Poncho back to year one. He’s now compiled all of those strips into a book. What’s interesting about the book is that it’s not a straight compilation. He’s reworked some of the punchlines so that it fits a more sequential […]

South Florida Sun Sentinel editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe and former Tulsa World cartoonist Doug Marlette will be inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame later this month. Chan was the cartoonist for the Oklahoma City Times from 1978-1984 and Doug was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who had a brief tenure at the Tulsa […]

The Halloween cartoons have begun, and, so far, the most original story arc is coming from “Deflocked,” where Mamet is offended by a dog in a sheep costume.To properly appreciate this, you have to realize what an insensitive jerk Mamet is and how often he offends those around him. But I think Jeff Corriveau does […]

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Tom the Dancing Bug is always a fun read, though it tends to be inconsistent in that it’s sometimes simply a fun read and other times it’s a fun read with worthwhile insights.Note that it is always a fun read. Even when Ruben Bolling is phoning one in, it’s worth taking the call.And the moments […]

When Matt Bors posted this yesterday, I knew it was going to be the Comic Strip of the Day, a decision that, since I don’t have any sort of early access to strips, doesn’t normally come down until about five in the morning.But who’s going to do better than this? Who’s going to do this […]