I thought I was being sneaky. I am building out a new section of the blog called “The Water Cooler.” Think of it as a blog posts about any topic that might be of interest to our community that may/may not be related to cartooning. Many-a-times I come across something bizarre or cool and want […]
Members of UK’s Pirate party can vote in pirate attire. Westminster Council?s Nigel Tonkin, who has been organizing elections for 35 years, has been commenting to the BBC on the do?s and don?t at the polling station. He confirmed that party insignia and emblems are not allowed, but that Pirate Party voters are free to […]
There’s a bit of buzz floating around about a rumor that AT&T made a deal with Apple to keep the iPhone exclusive with them until early 2011. In any event, during the course of negotiations, AT&T agreed to offer Apple a deal on bandwidth rates for the iPad 3G in exchange for a 6 month […]
During Jay Leno’s monologue, he showed a screen shot of alleged New York Times Faisal Shahzad’s Facebook account. Under “Members Of” you’ll find “Team Coco” a reference to fans of Conan O’Brien. Way to go Leno.
I finished the John and Anne Hambrock interview yesterday. As always a great podcast in the can for Tom Racine. The trio discussed John’s nomination as Best Newspaper Comic strip and a detour discussion on recent movies.
The momentum toward digital publishing continues with Google entering in the eBook market. Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing about its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish Google Editions in the marketplace by allowing users to access […]
A couple of book announcements that have caught my eye: Darby Conley’s is coming out with a Get Fuzzy new collection called “Treasury of the Lost Litter Box: A Get Fuzzy Treasury” Kieth Knight will release his first collection of The Knight Life. The book is entitled, “The Knight Life: “Chivalry Ain’t Dead”” And lastly, […]