Today marks the end of Stephanie Piro’s Valentine’s Day Countdown which she started at the first of the month.

Fascinating story over in the Telegraph about how much information we consume and produce. The growth in the internet, 24-hour television and mobile phones means that we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986. But that pales into insignificance compared with the growth in the amount of information […]

Episode entitled, “Refi Redo.”

The Oregonian sent Slowpoke creator Jen Sorensen to Montana “to enjoy a few days of skiing and the small-town atmosphere.” She returns with a graphic travelogue of her experience.

DreamWorks Animation SKG has announced that it has secured the rights to bring Berkeley Breathed’s kid’s book, Flawed Dogs, to the big screen. Berkeley will serve as executive producer on the project, which DreamWorks Animation’s head of development Alex Schwartz and development executive Damon Ross are overseeing.Flawed Dogs tells the fabled tale of a dachshund […]

  Okay, yesterday I dumped on strips that do the “hubby forgot” gag. But this Bug is a funny “hubby forgot” gag. And they’re not married. (See Panel Four, above)Anyway, I’ve still got that stupid song stuck in my head. If I can complain about a song I like, I can praise a comic theme […]

Edge City wins big points for not doing the traditional, seemingly mandatory “I bought you candy but then I ate it”  strip or the equally ubiquitous, equally tiresome  “Hubby forgot the holiday” strip.On the other hand, this is really, really, really an infectious earworm for anyone under 70, since it refers to one of the […]

The editorial pages are awash in cartoons featuring the Sphinx and the pyramids, and references to this or that great revolutionary moment, but this simple John Cole panel sums up the prolonged confrontation and the futility of Mubarak’s resistence. Sometimes, there’s no need to reach for the profound symbols, and often that reach exceeds the […]

Comic Alliance reports that a translated version of a 50 years old comic book relating the non-violent civil disobedience movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. was distributed throughout Tahrir Square in Egypt by the American Islamic Congress. The group advocates peace and civil rights through non violent means.From Comic Alliance: In a recent newsletter to […]

Very cool, rare look inside the studio.

Fun fan made short by Disney animator Robb Pratt.Only wish there was more.

Sometimes I like “Between Friends” because it provides a comic insight into women’s lives. Sometimes I like it because it provides a comic critique of women’s lives. Other times, both.Susan obsesses over what she ought to be doing and seems incapable of just letting life unfold. There’s always something missing, and it’s her fault. She […]

Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man, responds to the sketch-comedy show “Portlandia” – a parody of the people of Portland, OR on the New Yorker’s Cartoon Bank Blog. Shannon currently lives in Portland.My barista is ignoring me. He has his reasons. He wants me to see that his service industry job is beneath […]

Perhaps not as dangerous as going to Iraq, the effort is no less important. Ten members of the National Cartoonists Society will be heading to San Antonio, TX the first week of March to draw cartoons for soldiers and their families at Brooke Army Medical Center, the Audie Murphy VA Hospital and The Center for […]

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is running an exhibit of Berkeley Breathed’s work entitled “From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed.” Along with the exhibit, the museum and IDW (who published the Bloom County: The Complete Collection) will be printing a limited edition, 96-page catalog featuring original artwork from Bloom […]