Today’s Non Sequitur stands out in a crowd of fruitcake jokes and gags about kids attempting to mug Santa for his presents.But, the topic having been raised, where did “Mrs. Claus” come from, anyway? The only saints I can think of off the top of my head whose lives included marriage are Agnes, Barbara and […]

Great news from the OSU Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation has pledged $250,000 over five years to support the new Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum facility, part of the Sullivant Hall renovation at The Ohio State University. In recognition of this gift, the library’s seminar room […]

Korea Times reports that The Supreme Court has upheld a district court ruling fining cartoonist “Choi” 3 million won ($2,600) for “drawing a cartoon directing abusive words toward President Lee Myung-bak.” He drew the cartoon in June last year, depicting family members paying respect to a soldier’s monument, with an offensive comment against the President […]

Daryl Cagle compares and contrasts the ethical rules regarding staff cartoonists in the US vs in Slovakia: Shooty is certainly no fan of Fico, a former communist who clings to his totalitarian roots. In the last election Shooty made a plea for donations on his Facebook page and raised over 60,000 euros for a billboard […]

IDW has started releasing digital graphic novels every week for the iPad according to Comics Alliance. Just launched books include Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter and The Outfit, and Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County: the Complete Library Volume One. Each book contains all the material found in the print editions, all spectacularly formatted for full page reading […]

Funny cartoon by Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price that she opted not to draw up and submit to her editor – for obvious reasons. I’ve intentionally cropped the cartoon below so as not to give away punchline. Visit her site to see the full image.

We’re closing out the year 2010 here soon. The Washington Post has posted their “The Year in Cartoons” featuring Nick Anderson, Pat Bagley, Lisa Benson, Cam Cardow, Danziger, Clay Jones, KAL, Mike Luckovich (4), Jack Ohman (2), Joel Pett, Drew Sheneman, and Scott Stantis.Newsweek usually posts their year end list. If anyone can find the […]

  “Freshly Squeezed” is a comic strip by Ed Stein that went into syndication three months ago, but is based on a strip called “Denver Square” that he did for a little over a decade in the Rocky Mountain News.Which newspaper, you will note, no longer exists.Ed brought back the major characters from “Denver Square” […]

The Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man temporary closed yesterday and today after a Spider-Man costumed performer plunged 30 feet into the orchestra pit after a cable snapped. He suffered “a few broken ribs.” The show now has a three part safety procedure before each stunt. Cox told reporters that before each stunt, the operator or stagehand […]

Nothing new is being said, but it’s good to see Editor & Publisher running an article by Rob Tornoe on the future of editorial cartooning. In terms of fodder for their cartoons, Cagle suggests cartoonists look to magazines at the supermarket checkout aisle and outlets like “The Today Show” in addition to hard news and […]

Sergio Aragonés is interviewed by The National Post regarding his book, MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works. Q So when you were looking through your older work, were there any that surprised you? A Very much. I?ve got tens of thousands, and sometimes when I look at them I?ve completely […]

I’ve never understood that stupid song, and today’s Argyle Sweater points out why.Some things you don’t understand as a kid, but then, as you grow older, you realize what it’s all about. Having had the experience of a newborn in the house twice now, however, I understand this one even less. If Joseph were the […]

Last week King Features Syndicate released an iPhone, iPod Touch app for their DailyINK subscription service. Today, they’ve released the iPad version of the same app.The app, technically is a single app that runs in both small screens (iPhone) and larger screens (iPad) – so if you have an iPad and downloaded it last week, […]

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has been invited to speak at the TEDx Warwick conference next spring in England. TED stands for Technology, Education and Design and invites thought leaders from around the world to give a 18 minute “talk of their lives” talk. The smaller TEDx events are much smaller and regional with a dozen speakers. […]

Sherman’s Lagoon creator Jim Toomey will deliver more than 3,600 individual letters from Aquarium of the Bay visitors, asking for international bans on shark finning, to NOAA Assistant Administrator for Fisheries Eric Schwaab in Washington, DC today.“Promoting awareness of shark conservation is not an easy task. A single shark-related incident anywhere in the world will […]