Growing up in remote Nova Scotia, Kate Beaton may not have a wealth of comic art surrounding her, but as you’ll read below, she found inspiration from a variety of sources. And that foundation has served her well as she’s become an award winning cartoonist, children’s book author, and non-fiction graphic novelist.For those not familiar […]
There’s nothing all that new if you take Guto Dias’ cartoon in the broad, overall sense. Both graphic and literary artists have had to leave creativity aside when entering the commercial arena, and if some leaks in, it generally gets committeefied into pap before anybody in the public sees it.But the advent of AI is […]
Start with a curiosity before getting into heavier topics: Francis, in which Brother Leo is a fool in the classic, Christian sense.I liked the Latin mass, both because liturgy should inspire a little awe, and because of its universality. I went to mass in Switzerland in 1965, as the mass was being divided into parts […]
Let’s start with the silly and work our way down to the Meaningful. I think the joke in today’s Buckets is that Greg Cravens draws the two characters as eight-year-olds, but the people actually having this conversation are 50 and older, and work in the front offices of Marvel and DC.Which, as I understand it, is […]
I was a bit coy yesterday about the whole Bill Watterson/Stephan Pastis thing because, at the pre-dawn hour when I was cobbling it together, the story still seemed confined to the insider sites and I didn’t want to spoil the surprise for people who had missed the reveal.About 30 seconds later, it was all over […]