As many of you are aware last week I ran my annual donation drive with a goal of raising the equivalent of $7.25 (minimum wage) for the work I do here on the blog. When the dust had settled my readers donated the equivalent of $4.77. A bit shy of the goal, but it surpassed […]
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiled Jeff Kinney about the success of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I think this admission is a life lesson for all of us. “I always think of myself as a cartoonist who couldn’t crack into newspapers,” he said recently by phone. Kinney created the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” […]
This last weekend was a rare event at the Savannah College of Art and Design. SCAD brought together several of the cartoonists from MAD Magazine: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., Nick Meglin, ?Duck? Edwing, Sergio Aragones, Sam Viviano and Tom Richmond. The AP did a story covering the event with the angle of […]
Mark Anderson (Andertoons) has scanned and posted several panels from Bil Keane’s 1966 book Jest in Pun. Bil was the master of Pun.