For those keeping score, three of the big five editorial cartooning journalism awards announced so far have all gone to a “Mike.”Mike Peters – National Headliners Award Mike Thompson – Scripps Howard Award Mike Keefe – John Fischetti Award Herblock Award – Tom Toles Matt Wuerker – National Press FoundationStill unannounced:Overseas Press Club (late April) […]
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) has won this year’s National Headliner Award for editorial cartooning. Second and third place went to Stuart Carlson (Universal Uclick Syndicate) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News, NY) respectively. Mike won the award last year. Interviewed by Michael Cavna about the announcement, Mike said, […]
Non Sequitur got a genuine laugh, rather than a “that’s pretty good,” out of me this morning. Now, of course, having enjoyed it, I feel compelled to analyze why I enjoyed it.Sort of the way a puppy gets a nice squeaky toy and then tears it apart to find, and destroy, the squeaker. It’s how […]
“Guts: A Young Adult Television Fiasco” comes courtesy of a tip at the Comics Reporter, a website I hit every morning which is much more comic-book than comic-strip oriented but is full of fascinating stuff. (This is the first page of the memoir; hit the link to read the whole thing. It’s long enough to […]
Prompted by his blog readers, Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote a post regarding Men?s Rights Activism. The post was take down, not before feminists made captured it. Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights: Get over it, you bunch of […]
The second installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be opening in theaters today. Early reviews are mixed when looking at top critics over on RottenTomatoes.com. Michael O’Sullivan of the Washington Post wasn’t that impressed:The problem doesn’t really lie in the acting but in the writing. There’s too much effort expended on making […]
WWDMedia is reporting that a fourth reporter for the iPad only publication, The Daily, has left for other opportunities. Culture reporter Molly Young joins Lauren Bans, Heather Havrilesky and political reporter Jon Ward who have left the two month old publication.“It was incredibly fun to work in a newsroom: lots of reporting, lots of running […]
As noted before, “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” has the advantage of being a web strip and thus being able to respond more quickly to developing news.But I doubt even Pab Sungenis was expecting this late-breaking boost to his punchline, in which we discover that the NATO push against Libya’s attacks on its own […]
Libyan state run television didn’t take too long to mention Denmark’s involvement in the NATO enforced no-fly zone was connected to the Danish Mohammad cartoons published in 2005.On Tuesday morning, Libyan television accused Denmark – falsely – of controlling the operation that destroyed Bab al-Azizya, Gaddafi’s headquarters in Tripoli. The Libyan news announcer, who switched […]
Another character from the Marvel Universe is hitting the big screen.
Mark Buford, creator of Scary Gary, will be in the UK next week and while in Brighton he’ll be visiting with a cartoonists group called Cartoon County. They’ll record the visit in their podcast. I’m not 100%, but mindlessones.com appears to be where they post their podcasts.Enjoy the trip, Mark. Remember to drive on the […]
I mentioned this earlier this week, the comic strip Zits is in teen texting and driving story-line this week. The story I referenced ran in USAToday, but it’s popping up in several media outlets nationwide. Here’s a news report with telephone interviews from Zits creators Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott about the story-line.
Mike Lynch reports that a new Jerry Robinson documentary is in the works.
Charles Brubaker found this 4 minute slice of a Jim Henson film of The Wizard of Id.
Grand Avenue on the scourge of grandparents with cameras. Which could also be the scourge of parents with cameras, except that Grand Avenue is about a grandmother raising a pair of twins.Whoever does it, there are adults who manage without a great deal of effort to teach kids to Stop, Turn and Grin whenever someone […]