Comics Alliance reports that in a blog post entited, “1 down, 534 to go” Travis Corcoran, the president of Heavy Ink (online comic book retailer) rejoiced in the shooting in Tucson, AZ that injured Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others including a federal judge. He writes on this blog that it was unacceptable […]
United Media is premiering Dude and Dude today on Comics.com. The strip is by Keith Poletiek about the eternal question of why we can’t all just get rich by sleeping in, flirting with “the honeys,” and hanging at the beach. But while most people eventually succumb to the pressures of “real life,” the two twenty-somethings […]
Not sure how to gauge who was first to post/publish a cartoon reaction to last weekend’s deadly shooting in Tucson AZ that injured Congress Woman Gabrielle Giffords. There are two staff cartoonists in Arizona Steve Benson at the Arizona Republic and David Fitzsimmons so we’ll start with them first: This is David’s first cartoon: See […]
Last night was the debut of “Bob’s Burgers” on the Fox Network. The Boston Globe gave it a favorable write-up: “Bob’s Burgers” has a more sharply offbeat sensibility than its more pop-culture rooted Sunday night neighbors, veering between absurd, endearing, and crude – which fits with the avant stand-up stylings of folks like Schaal and […]
Here’s the run down of the latest changes in the comics that newspapers are running: The Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY) is publishing a local comic described as a Doonesbury-esque strip on “local issues, politics and events regarding the Adirondack Park.” It’s called Parkview. Runs for 10 weeks. Here’s a preview of the first. Here’s a […]
Saturday, I posted a response by Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons regarding that day’s shooting in Tucson that has placed Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital, killed a federal judge and five other individual. David, moments after the shooting on CNN said in part: “The right in Arizona, and I’m speaking very […]