Madam & Eve comments on the London riots. I like the crappy “universal” style that turns what should be a loveable mascot into the sort of international icon you’d find on signage telling you which restrooms are for men and which are for women, or asking you not to litter.There must be something in the […]

Bill Holbrook is incredibly prolific, with three different daily strips going, two (On the Fastrack and Safe Havens) in syndication and one (Kevin and Kell) on-line.Fastrack is the geeky one and, as I struggle with a new computer, this gag rings just as true as it did in 2007. Yes, I know I can probably […]

While I’m off reminiscing with high school friends, a little humor from my college.When I went back to my 20th reunion at Notre Dame, I found myself talking to the undergraduates who were working the event. (Yes, just like the guys who used to chat with Zonker when Doonesbury did its annual reunion sequence.) As […]

I’d love to attend this:From Batman and Beetle Bailey to Archie and Wonder Woman, the comic book world is rich with a colorful cast of superheroes, villains and other cult creatures. And as a new action-packed, joke-filled exhibition at the UConn Stamford Art Gallery reveals, many of Connecticut’s own artists brought them to life. “Faster […]

A couple more facts that have come to light in the ongoing investigation by the Renton WA police department to uncover the identity of “Mrfuddlesticks” who has been posting cartoon videos online mocking the police department.A few things that we do know: A judge has stayed the earlier search warrants being used to get information […]

Okay, today’s choice is largely an accident of timing, but I like the blandness of John Deering’s art in this Strange Brew. Sometimes, you can just draw something and, if you do it right, you don’t need a pie-in-the-face punchline to make it “funny.”But the timing of this funny panel also happens to be impeccable, […]

Interesting work by songwriter Jascha Hoffman and director Benjamin Harrison who went into the archives and pulled out Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and put together a music video.Winsor McCay was a pioneering animator in his day. It seems somewhat proper that his art is still being used.

A Letter to the Editor in the Baltimore Sun: Lately, I have become increasingly put off by Stephan Pastis’ comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. I enjoy reading the strip but it seems lately there has been a lot more swearing by his characters. The problem I have is that my three children read every comic […]

Interesting post over at Comics Alliance. Charles Forsman got our attention last fall when he imagined Raiders of the Lost Ark in the style of Popeye, but the Snake Oil creator’s latest movie/comic strip remix casting Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws might be even more endearing. Though he’s a fan of the […]

PVP creator Scott Kurtz and Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have launched a new webcomic called The Trenches. It’s described as one that “documents the tribulations of software testing with the precision tools of ‘the office comedy.’” Those in the game testing community are welcome to submit their horror stories and some […]

 Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune does a fine job of summing up the disappointment of Obama supporters.Yesterday, I wrote about the futility of thinking voters are going to sit down, rationally consider all the candidates on their merits and then make a choice based on an objective and thoughtful assessment of the nation’s […]

Don Asmussen sets himself a tough task with “Bad Reporter” — making three terse, funny, insightful, thematically-linked gags on the same day. He doesn’t nail all three every time, but, my, it’s lovely when he does.With the next presidential campaign just kicking off, we’re in a particularly target-rich environment right now, particularly with the emerging […]

The Philadelphia Daily News and The Inquirer have allegedly cut at least 10 comics between them and raised the newsstand price of their paper. According to Philebrity.com, the Inquirer has cut Sally Forth, Overboard, Non Sequitur, Hagar the Horrible, Rex Morgan M.D., Ziggy, and Lio. In the Sunday edition, they also removed Dilbert. The Daily […]

The drama in Renton WA over a series of animated videos mocking the local police department has taken a twist. A county judge has blocked the police search for the anonymous “cartoonist” (AKA “Mrfuddlesticks”) after a Seattle attorney filed a motion to quash the previous two search warrants on the grounds that the police department […]

Jake Parker has posted a map of the “known world” for those who call themselves visual storytellers. Click through to his blog for a larger view of the map and his narrative of options for storytellers. The visual storyteller; part artist, part writer. Some favor the visual, others favor the word, but all of them […]