When cartoonists and cartoon fans talk about their early influences or the ones that really got them interested in comics as a medium, the strips you hear about tend to be the groundbreakers, like Barnaby, Pogo, and Peanuts. I liked those strips, though I only saw Barnaby in a collection my parents had and Walt Kelly’s […]
If I didn’t know that Wiley Miller keeps average deadlines for Non Sequitur, I’d suspect he was listening over the state line to NHPR’s “The Exchange” last week, when the guest was T.R. Reid and the topic was medical care here and in other countries.Reid puts the lie to claims that medicine overseas is tremendously […]
Bill BussingerThere will be a lot of Steve Jobs obituary cartoons over the next week, but this designer has nailed it. Every once in a long while, a “weeper” cartoon works. This one works.What I find interesting — and a bit depressing — is that I’m seeing cartoons this morning that are the same as […]
Great point by Jen Chaney at the Washington Post:As the public mourns the death of Steve Jobs and contemplates his achievements, the first word that immediately comes to mind is: Apple. As Hank Stuever writes in his appreciation of the technological visionary ? who died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 ? […]
Just a quick announcement. My wife reminded my last night that The Daily Cartoonist turned 6 years old. The date’s a bit fuzzy. The first blog post was on October 5 – but that was on a free blogging account on Blogger. I purchased the domain on the 14th with the first news story soon […]
Yeah, I’m back at Rhymes With Orange barely a week later. As I’ve said before, I could feature this strip three or four times a week and I’d still be holding back.Today’s panel, however, touches on three things: Two that fascinate me and one that infuriates me. I’ll try not to let discussion of #3 […]
Posted on the Disney/Pixar Facebook page: “Steve Jobs was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend and the guiding light of the Pixar family. He saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined. Steve took a chance on us and believed in our crazy […]
Chris Joseph takes a dour look at what he calls the seven most depressing comic strip characters in newspapers today. Sunday morning comics are a bit of a dying art form. Thanks mainly to the interwebs killing off the newspaper industry, reading the comics on a Sunday morning is becoming more and more a thing […]
Rip Haywire creator Dan Thompson will be releasing a graphic novel based on his comic at the end of this month. The book is entitled, Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa!You can check out samples of his book over on his web site. The book is a 112 page story of new material and […]
The blurb in the rail includes “made me think” as one of the criteria for being here, and Jeff Stahler’s cartoon did make me think.I’ve got a rather large bone to pick with him, however, in that, while this is a spectacularly bad time to be in the job market, there is nothing particularly special […]
Dubbed the top 10 college newspaper comic by Online College Courses, the list includes Alex Cline’s Scrambled Eggs, John Vestevich, Rashad Baiyasi’s Comics by Rashad, Sean Polyn’s Shallow Grave, Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher and Deeper, Nate Beeler, Josh Ferrin, Bill Watterson, Tony Carillo’s F-Minus. You’ll note several of these individuals have gone on to bigger […]
Bloomingdale’s has licensed Beetle Bailey and Popeye the Sailor to be featured on a limited-edition merchandise line of clothing. From Oct. 1 through Jan. 31, Bloomingdale?s will have special boutiques dedicated to the major retail program in-store and will feature the product on bloomingdales.com. The Beetle Bailey and Popeye collection will feature 52 SKUs of […]
Harish Yadav who goes by the pen name Mussaveer was arrested last week for drawing a cartoon about the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to wear a skull cap during the fast in Ahmedabad. He was arrested under the Indian Penal Code that punish for “deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings […]
Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite is heading back to her hometown to be honored for “Voices: Extraordinary Women of Midland County.” The local paper interviewed her about this last year not doing the comic strip. Her strip a year ago yesterday.“It’s been a very weird, very great year, completely mothering my daughter through her last year […]
Matt Wuerker on the inability of the media to focus on anything that matters.The potential candidacy of NJ Governor Chris Christie has brought some new life to the increasingly odd Republican presidential campaign, but the only reason I know who he is, is that I happen to follow a cartoonist or two or three who […]