Last week I linked to an number of news stories regarding tablet computers including Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and how newspapers are considering giving away or subsidizing tablets to long-term subscribers. Comic Book Resources reports that DC Comics has inked a deal with Amazon to offer several graphic novels and collection editions formatted specific to […]
A movie based on the popular webcomic PhD has been made and is being screened at university campuses across North America this fall. Jorge Cham, PhD creator worked with the Theater Arts at Caltech to make the movie.The project is unique in that it was produced entirely by members of the Caltech community, with actual […]
Beloved children’s book writer, illustrator Shel Silverstein passed away 1999, but his family is releasing a new book of previously unprinted material entitled Every Thing On It The material is described as material Shel liked “but never had a place for in his other collections.”
This is not a comic strip, but I am claiming personal privilege to feature it because (A) I want to and (B) you’ll be glad I did. It’s a quick read that will stick to your ribs.Dylan Meconis and I go back to 2005, when I was working on a serialized collection of mythology for […]
Boy, if only it were.The New Adventures of Queen Victoria draws upon the Book of Konigsberg to refute the muddled preaching of Pat Robertson.Of course, Pat Robertson has long been gold for political cartoonists. Here’s a piece I did in 2005, when I was producing educational features for the paper and good old Pat was […]
In today’s “Tina’s Groove,” Tina contemplates the lure of signing up to be cyber-stalked in exchange for making a comment that will instantly melt within an ocean of comments or will go unread by anyone on a story that she alone cares about.Once she signs up to be a member, of course, she will belong […]
I’ve just received word that Charles Brooks, Sr. best known as editor of the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year passed away last night. He will be buried in Birmingham on Monday. He was a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and editorial cartoonist for The Birmingham News for 38 years. The […]
This past March, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis took over Dick Tracy and brought it back from a level of conceptual chaos that had gradually gone beyond appealing camp into unreadable nonsense.Over the past half year, they’re returned it to a basic cops-and-robbers strip with shorter, more coherent plot lines and villains […]
From the BBC:Prosecutors in Norway have charged three men with conspiracy to commit terrorism in connection with the 2005 Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy. The three are accused of planning to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published his cartoons.
Fall in is in the air. School is back in session. And just like clockwork we have a new college campus cartoon controversy. The cartoon in question ran in Solano Community College’s paper The Tempest and depicts black women calling black men worthless and wishing they’d all “go away.” The cartoon also ran under an […]
Michael Cavna talks with Tom Wilson Jr. about his father who recently passed away and of course Ziggy.“When I was young, we would go to Bob’s Big Boy restaurants on Saturdays for breakfast,” the younger Wilson tells Comic Riffs of their Cleveland-area outings. “Dad would turn over their placemats and draw Ziggy about ready to […]
Bloomberg is reporting that Ruport Murdock’s much heralded The Daily is struggling to get enough subscribers to break even. The Daily’s daily usage is about 120,000 – much less than the 500,000 it needs to break even. News Corp.’s digital publication isn’t compelling enough to change people’s reading habits and its marketing push, including an […]
Yesterday Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet. The device is being hailed as the first serious tablet to compete against Apple’s iPad. It sells at $199 and has a whole bunch of features that you can see on their site. Here’s Bloomberg’s report about the Kindle Fire. In somewhat related news, at least two […]
Okay, he’s no Chris Christie. He’s no Lou Christie. He isn’t even Julie Christie.But he is the savior I’ve been hoping would return and enter the presidential race: Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse, and now he’s back in Prickly City and ready to redeem the nation, I’m sure much as you would […]
Back in 2008, Retail creator Norm Feuti began posting a webcomic called Gill – a strip developed for syndication that didn’t get any takers. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that found the strip well written and in a polished state. It was sad to see a strip that had a likable and […]