MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond took the helm of the National Cartoonists Society this year. He has big shoes to fail. Tom succeeds Jef Keane who lead the organization for 2 two year terms. He’s been a member of the professional organization since 1998. I asked him a few questions regarding his new role as […]
As always, a hilarious video via The Doozies and Learn to Draw series creator Tom Gammill:
Robert Ariail (Spartanburg Herald-Journal), Clay Bennett (Chattanooga Times Free Press) and Jeff Parker (Florida Today) were named as finalists in The Society of Professional Journalists announced the finalists for the 61st annual Green Eyeshade Awards. The regional contest recongnizes outstanding journalism in 11 southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South […]
No kidding.Darrin Bell recently did some right-to-the-edge deadline work on the death of bin Laden, and he’s done it again in today’s Candorville. But, even getting his lead time down to a minimum, he had to time the strip to hit when the laughter was over, but before the coverage let up.One can only hope […]
Mark Parisi shared this creative use of an “Off the Mark” panel on his Facebook page. The Spanish teacher deleted the original caption — “I give it three months.” — and asked her students to fill in a new joke, and gave this one — “That man needs to shave.” — the highest grade for using […]
Bud Grace is capable of setting up seemingly significant plot shifts in Piranha Club and then blowing them away with a simple flick of the reset button — often starring himself. And that may still be in the offing.But it’s starting to look like Ernie is really headed down the aisle, and not a moment […]
Actor and director Warren Beatty has announced he’s working on a sequel for the Dick Tracy movie as well as a remastered Blu-Ray of the original Dick Tracy movie he directed and starred in back in the 1980’s.Recently, Beatty won a legal battle with Tribune Media over the movie rights for the Dick Tracy character.Regarding […]
Keith Knight’s “Knight Life” offers up one of those jokes that is absolutely, completely stupid but that, once you’ve heard it, becomes permanently embedded in your brain.From this moment on, every time anybody mentions GPS, I’m going to think about some daffy driver going the wrong way because she thinks she’s got an Sd9.Thanks, Keef. […]
Business insider reports that The New York Times pay-wall strategy is not only generating online revenue, but that they’re seeing an uptick in print subscriptions as well as the choice of ‘free’ is no longer an option.Even people who love their newsprint had to give serious thought to why they were blowing $600 for nothing. […]
Looks like a new site is up that takes peoples Tweets and tries to match them with random Peanut strip.As far as a parody/mashup experiment – I think it works. Here’s some examples.Follow PeanutTwitter
Warner Bros. will produce three new 3D short animations of their Looney Tunes properties. More interestingly is that they’ll use the original voice recordings of Mel Blanc (the original voice behind Bugs Bunny) from the 1950s. The three shorts will include a Daffy Duck segment, a Sylvester the Cat and Tweety and anothe Road Runner […]
Pat Oliphant on priorities.After the discussion the other day about political courage versus partisan hackery, it occurred to me that one reason we’ve been in Afghanistan so much longer than we were in Vietnam is that nobody in the major parties wants to stand up and ask the sorts of questions raised by Oliphant’s cartoon. […]
I haven’t been a regular visitor to Editor & Publisher since they laid off Dave Astor, so I’m not sure when the relaunch of their site went live. I remember when E&P was bought out they wanted to do a redesign and drop the pay wall.
I came across this letter to the editor and had a “Oh crap! Did Jim forgot to check his calendar again?” The date referenced below is the day before D-Day.The comic strip “Garfield” has long impressed me with its consistent message of aggrandizing anti-social behavior. The strip is a detriment to young readers and an […]
Back in February I linked to a New York Times video report of their sneak peak inside Pixar’s campus. Now we have a look inside Dreamworks Animation Studio via Cali Lewis of GeekBeat.TV. The video is a little less about the campus and work environment and more on how 3D animation is created.Hat tip: The […]