This past Christmas, I gave my older son, a Gulf veteran, a copy of “War is Boring,” the graphic memoir about the compelling addiction of covering armed conflicts, done by war correspondent David Axe and cartoonist Matt Bors. He took a while to pick it up and then reported that, while he liked it very […]
From the Wall Street Journal:Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for Tuesday amid the dearth of bids. It said it would ask a judge Thursday to approve a sale […]
Vic Lee touches on a pet peeve with only a little bit of exaggeration in today’s “Pardon My Planet.”It’s nearly impossible to defend spanking, though most parents’s feelings on the topic are similar to the old Irish saying about fairies: “I don’t believe in them, but they’re there.”Anyone who believes in spankings is a barbarian. […]
title: Bill Kellogg launches ComicsShowcase.comBill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy behind Tundra and the new Ink Bottle Syndicate has launched a new website called ComicsShowcase.com “where comics fans can go to view strips they might not otherwise see.” Bill writes, [Comics Showcase] is different from the other sites like Comics Sherpa, etc. in that the cartoonists […]
Alex Hallatt is using her strip Arctic Circle to bring attention to the environmental issue of fracking. Fracking is the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas which is then collected. Environmentalists are concerned that the process is contaminating water and causing other […]
This year’s John Locher memorial award went to JR Fruto at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. JR is a senior at the university where he is the cartoonist for the paper Daily Tar Heel. As the winner, JR attended this year’s AAEC convention earlier this month. Below are a couple of his […]
Arlo & Janis touches upon one of the great truths of American education.It took me a little over a week, my freshman year, to realize, not that sophomores were all idiots, but that the biggest idiots on campus were all sophomores.I’d have tumbled to it a little sooner, but we had a week of orientation […]
Tank McNamara is a funny strip, and I don’t just mean that in the ha-ha sense. It is essentially the Doonesbury of sports strips and, as with Doonesbury, there are times when you have to check to see if Millar and Hinds are riffing on an actual event or just inventing an absurd situation […]
Mike Thompson takes on the latest idiot distraction, the alleged banning of incandescent light bulbs.There’s nothing new about populist demagogues pandering to the mob with distorted fears of things in their daily lives while more sweeping issues go unremarked. But Thompson does well to riff off the fact that there has never been a time […]
Interesting presentation by Lynn Johnston regarding her strip For Better or For Worse that she gave at the Charles M. Schulz museum this spring.For more insights into her strip, she’s posting notes (think footnotes) to each daily comic on her website.
Shaenon Garrity has posted a nice concise history of webcomics over on The Comics Journal. She breaks it up into five eras: 1985-1992: The Stone Age, 1993-1995: The Bronze Age, 1996-2000: The Singularity, 2001-2006: The Age of Sh– Getting Real, and 2007-Present: The Age of This Whole App Thing.
Worth 25 minutes of your time today.Not a too shabby life.
I’ve learned not to predict too much about what I’ll never do, but I did like today’s Rudy Park.Rudy Park is a partnership between Darrin Bell of Candorville and Theron Heir, who is actually Matt Richtel of the NY Times, using a pseudonym for reasons that probably made sense once but now mostly bring up […]
At this year’s HeroesCon Mike Rhode moderated a panel of cartoonists Jim Scancarelli (Gasoline Alley), Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), Alex Saviuk (Spider-man) and Joe Staton (Dick Tracy) on the topic taking over an established, classic comic strip. Here’s the link to the audio of the panel. I was unable to get it to play, […]
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar) has had his day in court and didn’t come away the winner. A Malaysian court has upheld the ban on two of his cartoon books that were banned and confiscated in 2010 on the grounds that they threatened public order.Mr Zulkifli said the judge did not specify how […]