Kory Merritt’s The Lost Side of Suburbia has moved been promoted from Comics Sherpa to GoComics last week after a little more than a year on Comics Sherpa. Kory, who was the 2007 John Locher Award winner and a finalist in the Comic Strip Superstar Contest, say he wanted to try something new, so he […]
If you’re not reading Ink Pen, you’re missing out on a strip that provides a well-tempered combination of wit and nonsense, and one that appeals to me because much of that wit and nonsense is devoted to skewering comics conventions. (The traditions, that is, not the gatherings.)In art, it is a mark of quality to […]
Tony Cochran’s Agnes dwells in an odd niche somewhere between the sweet daydreams of “Heart of the City” and the surreal fantasies of “Calvin,” perhaps with a little of the loveable-loser element of “Big Nate.” But while all those characters make us laugh with their striving, we know that they’re just kids and that, with […]
A large element of the humor in Frazz is the misdirected expectation, as demonstrated here. Are kids more sensitive today, or just completely unaware?I don’t think the current generation of parents even played “Cowboys and Indians” as kids (“Cowboys vs. Indians” is kind of a cheat, by the way). To start with, they were born […]
I LOVE Pixar films. My stomach knotted up after watching this trailer – and not in the good way.
Politico reporter Chris Frates had a front row seat to a heated email exchange between Doonebury creator Garry Trudeau and lobbyist Lanny Davis over last week’s storyline involving lobbyists for Arab dictators. Last Friday’s strip specifically mentioned Davis as one who is representing the reprehensible Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo. Davis criticized the cartoon in Politico […]
Monty and his pal Moondog are lost in the woods this week.I don’t often enjoy camping arcs, because I grew up in the woods and don’t have the right point of view, I suppose, but I’m a sucker for silly and so far, so good.A lot of the humor in most “out in the country” […]
More tributes are rolling out for Bill Gallo, the New York Daily News sports cartoonist and columnist who passed away Tuesday. Matt Marrone of ESPNNewYork.com has posted audio recordings of discussions he had with Bill about highlights of his career.Go listen to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Each piece is only about 3 […]
Bill Gallo, a legendary sports cartoonist, died Tuesday. Drew Litton, a sports cartoonist himself, drew this tribute to his inspiration and mentor.Obituary cartoons generally range from pointless to offensively maudlin, and only very rarely rise to the level of terrific. Litton could have drawn any sort of Pearly Gates crap, patted himself on the back […]
With this morning’s sad news of Bill Gallo’s passing, I asked the few sports cartoonists still drawing for their reactions. Bill Hinds, creator of Cleats and co-creator of Tank McNamara tells me that Bill was a legend.Whenever I would talk to him I couldn’t help but start playing Six Degrees of Bill Gallo in my […]
A Washington state man paid The Olympian $190 to drop Doonesbury for a day so he could run his own comic strip to pop the question. The title of the strip was “Happy Birthday Sandra Kay” and in the last panel he wrote, “As a cartoonist, this seems like the most natural place to ask […]
New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo has passed away from complications to pneumonia last night according to the Daily News. “My father is a lasting legend to New York, and to New York sports,” said Gallo’s son, Greg. “He will be forever thought of as a great cartoonist for the Daily News, […]
With today’s Strange Brew, John Deering may be closer to the truth than he intended.I mean, this is a funny joke, and one must never dismiss the role humor plays in cartooning.But then, too, one shouldn’t dismiss the role truth plays in humor.Let’s overthink this together!The Odyssey goes back about 2800 years. The thing about […]
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists.Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation.Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the only non-altie […]
An editorial cartoon by Free Lance-Star editorial cartoonist Clay Jones was prominently discussed on a recent Rachel Maddow program discussing reaction to who gets credit for Osama Bin Laden’s death. You can see the segment below. When I contacted Clay for reaction, he mentioned the cartoon was rejected by his editor for the paper but […]