Turkish cartoonist Bahadir Baruter will be put on trial for “insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population.” One of his cartoons depicted a group of men in a mosque praying but Bahadir wrote the words “There is no Allah, religion is a lie” in the decorations of the wall. A few […]

Mark Stokes has posted what he is calling a rare photo of a collection of cartoonist celebrating Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker’s 40th birthday. Photo was taken September 3, 1963 and includes: Jack Tippit, Bill Yates, Frank Roberge, Tony DiPreta, John Cullen Murphy, Gill Fox, Dik Browne; Bud Jones, Frank Johnson, Orlando Busino, Jerry Dumas, […]

Rhymes with Orange is on the short list of comics that would be here every day if I didn’t handicap my choices. This one breaks through because I have an uncanny ability to watch brilliant creative ideas drift off into the ether and to see entire days on which I have time to be productive […]

Last July WT Duck (or What The Duck for us fans before the title was changed for syndication) creator Aaron Johnson ended his syndication run after an even five years. Aaron cited wanting to have more time to devote to other projects. I asked him a few questions about his plans, his experience taking a […]

The New York Times has partnered with Xtranormal provide animated satirical cartoons for their website. Xtranormal uses a technology that provides a cast of characters that can voice and act scripts uploaded by the public to produce a video that can be shared virally. The same technology was used in Renton, Washington police officer to […]

Derf Backderf on the direct correlation between television and later life. (As always, click on the cartoon for a larger version)Or perhaps more specifically, on the correlation between vacuous-but-well-promoted scientific studies and screaming headlines. If the researchers in this study had used a less popular fast-paced cartoon, their study would have languished in the lower […]

Glen Weldon on NPR talks about Kate Beaton’s new Hark! A Vagrant collection due out tomorrow.Beaton is the master of comic strip pacing; several of Hark! A Vagrant!’s funniest strips feature panels with no dialogue at all, just a character (Aquaman, say, or an unamused King, or Poe) regarding the reader with a hilarious slow-burn […]

Hat tip to Hector Cortez

There’s A LOT of watch me draw videos out on the intertubes. One of my favorite artists is Florian Satzinger has posted a morning warm-up sketch. Work In Progress 7 (2) from Florian Satzinger on Vimeo.

Norm Feuti, creator of the comic Retail and the webcomic Gil has announced that his Gil comic has been picked up by King Features Syndicate for a launch in January 2012. You may remember Gil was launched as a webcomic back in 2008 about a little boy from a broken family. It was a bit […]

If you’re near Savannah Georgia on November 12th, be sure to plan on attending the SCAD/MAD public panel. Michael Jantze, The Norm creator and Savannah College of Art Design instructor, has announced that the Southeastern chapter of the National Cartoonist Society and SCAD are hosting a public panel of famed MAD cartoonists Sergio Aragones, Paul […]

It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]

Mike Smith tells me that he’s been rehired as a contract employee at the Las Vegas Sun. Last week he was one of 12 individuals let go from the paper in a cost reduction effort. He’s been their editorial cartoonist since 1983.

I’m not sure what happened in Connecticut that spurred Matt Davies to draw this cartoon, but I’m not going to Google for it because it really doesn’t matter. My understanding is that most states, and the FBI, are in a situation where their labs are simply not equipped to handle the flow of evidence. Procedures […]

Poor Cory. Got distracted by a long-distance relationship and blew his scholarship.Watch Your Head is a little like Theater Lab, in that you get to see things you wouldn’t see in the main stage productions and, however unconventional they may occasionally seem, they’re always interesting and worth checking out.Cory Thomas is willing to try things […]