Jeff Danziger smacks one over the wall in deep centerfield.The sports analogy is not inappropriate, because young goofballs often celebrate championships by rioting in the streets, which might be understandable if they were overturning cars, starting fires and smashing store windows in their opponent’s city. Seems kind of bizarre to shout “Hurray for us!” and […]
Piranha Club comes close enough on gas prices, given the necessary delay. Four dollars a gallon, five dollars a gallon, the point remains the same.I went to a children’s book fair yesterday. It was free to get in, but it wasn’t local, so it cost me about fifty bucks to get there. I can write […]
Wiley Miller weighs in on the Huffington Post issue.For those who don’t hang breathlessly on this stuff, the Huffington Post has had (and still has) a policy of inviting people to write for free on their web site. The most visible takers have been Ariana’s Hollywood buddies, who blog about their favorite charities or their […]
Not sure how I missed this one, but a hearty congrats to Mike Peters nonetheless. Mike was honored with the 72nd annual Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for best editorial cartooning on international affairs. This is the second big prize of the year. He was honored with this year’s National Headliner Awards. In an […]
University of New Mexico African-American students are demanded and received an apology from the student paper, The Daily Lobo, after it ran a cartoon depicting the scene from The Lion King where the monkey Rafiki holds up the young Simba lion cub, but in the drawing President Barak Obama was the Rafiki character holding Osama […]
Ah, brave new world that has such comics in it!Today’s Arlo & Janis is potentially confusing because neither character is regularly the fall guy. Sometimes Arlo worries too much about things that shouldn’t bother him and sometimes Janis is innocently clueless about technology. In this case, however, I don’t see how Jimmy Johnson can be […]
Phil Hands, editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal, was featured on a local news segment about his work and process. Runs about 5 minutes.
Yesterday’s post regarding Bill Watterson’s Mark Twain cartoons caught the eye of Nevin Martell, the author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (my review of Nevin’s book). He passes a long a few more of the cartoons that he’s collected. He notes that the […]
Okay, first of all, Hilary Price is completely wrong about my mom. And I met her mom at her open studio, and I’m pretty sure she’s wrong about her, too. In fact, I have no idea who she’s talking about.And that wasn’t me laughing, either.Oh boy.I have a feeling that this year’s Mother’s Day […]
From Jesse Jordan:Back in ’94 when Pulp Fiction was all the rage in L.A. some drawings leaked out of Film Roman. I don’t know who did these, but they’re great. Though I’ve got thirty or so of this series these are my favorite.I’m pleading ignorant as well. I dropped out of The Simpsons when my […]
Artist and photographer Thomas Haller Buchanan has posted several cartoons by Bill Watterson that were published during those brief months while Bill was the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Post. I’ve seen a lot of his earlier editorial cartoons, this is the first I’ve seen of a thematic collection.
Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist on Nancy announces that he’s publishing a first Today’s Dogg collection. The book will be in traditional print but also in digital formats with a portion of the proceeds to be donated to pet organizations. The-ebook version will feature a recording and video of “Take Me Home” a song written by Guy […]
Today is May 4th – ‘May the fourth be with you’ day. Not sure how big of a deal it is. Google did not change their logo to commemorate it, but Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted one of his Richards Poor Almanacs cartoons featuring “The Handy Condensed Version of Star Wars Revenge […]
Check out Jeff Stahler featured in a short documentary about editorial cartoonist. Directed and Edited by Amanda H. Cook. Music by Nickel Creek.INK. from Amanda H. Cook on Vimeo.via: Mike Lynch
With a little more time to ponder, Signe Wilkinson provides a more outward-looking cartoon than the chest-thumping, flag-waving panels that appeared in the immediate aftermath of the death of bin Laden. Note that the event isn’t even referenced here; only the timing suggests that it was part of her thought process.The world changes quickly. New […]