Jeffrey Weiss, the religion reporter for the Dallas Morning News, wondered why Tom Batuik made no mention of religion, prayers, god or faith in the story-line of Funky Winkerbean character Lisa Moore’s death. End-of-life is when people and their loved ones often confront their spiritual beliefs. But not a single strip mentioned God, clergy or […]
Charlie Hall drew and editorial cartoon for the Barrington Times (RI) and created a wave of upset readers. The cartoon is described as: In the first panel of the cartoon, a high-school student is being harassed by others for urging her peers not to drink. A girl tells the student, “Yea, if WE want to […]
Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batuik is well into this book signing tour to promote his new book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. According to the Akron Beakon Journal, his first book signing in Akron brought out over 400 people. The book, which is printed by a small press […]
The Billings Gazette added four new features earlier this year: Pickles, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy and Baby Blues and now they have added Pearls Before Swine and Prickly City to their line ups. To make room for the new features, they have dropped B.C. and Mallard Fillmore. Additionally, the paper has announced that it will […]
The Kansas City Star takes a look at Pat Oliphant, who at age 72, has no plan to retire and has released a new book entitled: “Leadership: Cartoons & Sculpture From the Bush Years” which as you can read from the title, contains cartoons and photos of sculptures of George W. Bush. Regarding caricaturing politicians […]
Back in June, I told you that the Miami Herald was holding a contest called the “Great Cartoonist Search” to find a local cartoonist to create a cartoon that reflects South Florida. Over 155 cartoonists submitted and over 11 thousand votes were cast. Jim Morin, the Herald’s editorial cartoonist was one of the judges that […]