With Paul Karasik, Karen Evans, Stephan Pastis, Liza Donnelly on Mary Petty, a raft of cartoonists in the Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest, and the Florida Agricultural Department will define “cartoon.”Inkpot AwardsThe Vineyard Gazette reported that local cartoonist Paul Karasik has received an Inkpot Award: “It’s hard to catch me by surprise, but in this case, […]
Ask A Cartoonist: Where Do You Find Inspiration?James Allen: “Mark Trail stories are inspired, initially, from actual news stories.” Bill Holbrook: “…the process is a mystery to me even after all these years.” Alex Hallatt: “I always gain inspiration from walking, especially uphill…” (??!!) For the full responses from the above, and more, go to […]
I’ve mentioned this before, but GoComics is now featuring “Origins of the Sunday Comics,” selections from a history of the same being compiled by Peter Maresca and, as GoComics says, available in “all of their full, broadsheet-sized glory in the new book from Sunday Press: Society is Nix, Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the […]
If God were a computer, undoubtedly, He’d blow up the world, because that would be the “answer.” — Phil OchsWell, God isn’t a computer and so there are other, more nuanced and compassionate answers to the problems of the world, but, so far, as Rob Rogers suggests, the most promising pontiff since John XXIII is […]
Tim Eagan points out the obvious in Deep Cover, and I don’t know why he bothers.I don’t know why I bother to pass it on.I’d say that Jesus spent half his ministry criticizing religious hypocrites who quote Scripture to explain why they don’t follow Scripture, but that wouldn’t be true.At least, I don’t think it’s […]