This year, Hank Ketcham’s Dennis the Menace will turn 60. It started in 16 papers on March 12, 1951. It is now in over 1,000 papers world-wide. Hank Ketcham created his little character in October 1950, with inspiration coming from his own 4-year-old son, Dennis, and a comment made by his wife after an especially […]
A Malaysian newspaper has apologized for running a cartoon depicting Japanese superhero Ultraman “comically trying to outrun a tsunami.”The apology issued on the paper’s website and on social newtworking sites said Berita Harian had “no intention of poking fun” at the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on Friday. The newspaper expressed sympathy and […]
Comic Book Resources interviews Richard Thompson about his comic Cul de Sac, his influences, and his Team Cul de Sac that is raising money for Parkinson’s Research. Much of the strip’s humor comes from the fact that many of the characters have their own unique worldview. Sometimes it?s Alice and Dill and Beni misunderstanding and […]
ComicsDC blogger and City Paper columnist Mike Rhode reports that the Washington City Paper has brought back it’s comics that it dropped back in 2008. The new line up will include two long-time contributors to City Paper, Derf and Shawn Belschwender with The City and Clowntime respectively and two strips new to City Paper readers: […]
This last fall at the triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at the OSU, Sheldon creator Dave Kellett gave an entertaining lecture on the future of comics from his vantage point as a professional webcomic cartoonist. His approach to the topic was to offer a response to Bill Watterson’s infamous “The Cheapening of Comics” speech given […]
Daryl Cagle is pointing out that the tragedy in Japan is creating three similar visual response: the Japanese rising sun, Godzilla and waves depicted in the Japanese art style. As usual when several cartoonists (in this case from around the world) use the same metaphor – he calls it Yahtzee.
The 6-days-a-week flashback continues at Pooch Cafe, telling the tale of Poncho’s puppyhood. The current arc not only shows his first encounter with Carmen, who we all (except Poncho-puppy) know is destined to be Chazz’s wife and, thus, Poncho’s rival for his affections, but it’s also his first close-up experience of cats, of which she […]
Interesting rumor from The Mac Observer. Apple may be working on building a set of template tools for iPad-based magazines to include in its Xcode developer tools. Assuming the report is accurate, such a move would give developers a standardized set of tools that could make it easier for creating publications as apps.Also rumored is […]
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly had not one but two articles profiling her this weekend. The Daily Camera writes about her new book “When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman” and the Poughkeepsie Journal delves into her marriage with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin
Interesting story about Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney, who despite the success of his books keeps his “day job” working on the popular children’s website Poptropica.com.“It’s the other great love of my life,” said Kinney, author of the best-selling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book and movie series. “It’s very difficult to walk away from […]
The opening weekend for Mars Needs Moms was disappointing #5. The feature film which cost $150 million to make only took in $6.8 million on it’s inaugural weekend.Movie was based on Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book of the same title.Last weekend’s winner, Rango – the quirky animated film – dropped to #2.
Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that’s what they wanted.For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from […]
Confession: Most days, I compile the CSTOD.com posting first thing in the morning, with a goal of getting it online no later that 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. But when I saw Jimmy Margulies’s cartoon the night before, and knowing that the time change would make posting on time difficult, I went ahead and posted before […]
Yesterday, I promised that, if any cartoons about the disaster in Japan managed to rise above the level of weeping samurai, you’d see it here.Jimmy Margulies, you insensitive lout! Where’s your social conscientiousness?Nice work.
When Wisconsin’s GOP pulled that razzle-dazzle trick the other night, I was reminded of the famous but apparently apocryphal quote from Admiral Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor about having awakened a sleeping giant. I may not have been the only person for whom it resonated, as Mike Luckovich draws on the overall concept […]