Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management company, 9eArt+, of retaliating against a female employee who reported a rape at the 2024 event and criticizes the festival’s organizers (FIBD) for not only resisting efforts to […]
Warming up with the whole “saddest words” thing over at Candorville.Lemont is moving to Canada to be with his girlfriend in Vancouver, whose name, as far as we know so far, is simply “Vancouver.” They met on-line and he’s been up there to visit her.Once.I’d love to be a romantic, but, boy oh boy, I’m […]
Tom Tomorrow holds forth on the new, social-media driven news cycle.Parts of this cartoon are excellent, parts are very much open for criticism.For one thing, I think he needs some new clip art to indicate hipsters, because the folks in that initial panel wouldn’t know Snapchat from Snoop Dogg, and, if they know about something, […]
Deflocked nails my current working situation, because telecommuting does lead to becoming a bit, well, casual.I had to buy a white dress shirt last week and the good news was that I remembered my neck size, but my sleeves were two inches short and so I couldn’t shoot my cuffs like a well-dressed fella should.Fortunately, I […]
(Norm 4.0)(My Dad)I particularly liked this Norm, because my interest in cartooning came from my dad, who was not a professional cartoonist but did the family card each year. This is one of my favorites and, yes, I was the youngest of three at that stage.The cast became larger over the years. This card marked […]