(Hotel Fred) (Blabbing Baboon)An interesting juxtaposition this week as Roger Landgridge shuts down Hotel Fred, a daily project he explains in this final installment, while Richard Marcej re-starts “The Blabbing Baboon,” his daily graphic journal, which had gone dormant while (spoiler alert) he took on a temporary position that involved a killer commute.On a superficial level, the […]
Start with a fun one, from Piranha Club, where Bud Grace has been expounding on the pleasures of cruise ship vacations. For my part, you don’t have to exaggerate to make me not want to take one of these trips, though I’d be willing to book passage on a freighter, which is a thing you can […]
Fun Home, the Off-Broadway adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Off biographical graphic novel, has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards.From CBS News:“An American in Paris” and “Fun Home” topped this year’s Tony Awards nominees with 12 nods each, followed by “Something Rotten!” with 10 and “The King and I” with nine. The best musical nominees “Fun […]
It’s kind of flattering to see my numbers take a small but noticeable dip during the Reubens, which are going on in San Diego as we speak. I guess.The flattery part, I mean. I’m quite certain that the cartoonists are gathering. And for those of us who can’t be there, Ruben Bolling has profiled some […]
Roz Chast has just dropped a very good cartoon into our laps, a preview of her graphic memoir, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant,” which will be released in May but is available for presale.Here’s a snippet of that significantly larger sample from the New Yorker, which you should definitely go read.A good narrative […]
The College of Charleston stands to lose about $52,000 in state funding because lawmakers dislike that the college is assigning Alison Bechdel award winning graphic novel and memoir Fun Home to incoming freshmen. Alison’s book delves topics such as sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide and dysfunctional family life.From the LA Times: South Carolina’s the State […]
(Nick Anderson) (Pat Oliphant)(Paresh Nath)Anybody got a solution to this?I’m certainly not backing off from my previous gratitude that Russia stepped in to defuse the chemical weapons issue, whether it golly-gosh just happened or was a quiet agreement between Russia and the US.But the utter lack of improvement since in any other respect also makes me willing […]
I don’t have a lot to say about Julia Wertz’s cartoon-filled narrative, “The Fart Party’s Over,” and it’s not a short read, so I’m going to explain why I’m sending you there and then … well, then I’m just going to send you there.It’s very compelling, it’s very well done, and I don’t know if you’ll […]
Dylan Horrocks posted a link to this comic on Facebook, with the brief message “Read this comic by Pat Grant right now. Just read it, OK? Now. (you won’t forget it, ever)”I’m tempted to just say “I agree” and sign off, but I’ll take things a little bit further. However, any substantive commentary on the piece would […]
A chilling internal monologue as Sarah Laing gives us a peek behind the curtain and lets us watch as she is browbeaten by a disembodied Katherine Mansfield, who is not only utterly dismissive of her talent but surprisingly au courant about the artists who could – any of them — do a much better job.(I […]