From the Straits Times: KUALA LUMPUR AFP – A Malaysian political cartoonist known for skewering the country’s ruling regime was charged Friday with what his lawyer called a record nine counts of sedition, one of dozens of targets in a deepening clampdown on civil liberties.Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque – who goes by the pen name Zunar […]
If you didn’t buy The Art of Richard Thompson (and why didn’t you???), you can at least read the an excerpt from the interview between Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson and Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. BW: I?ve changed my mind about things–I think comics have gotten too sophisticated for their own good! […]
I really enjoyed RC Harvey’s obit on Roy Doty over at The Comics Journal. Doty, too, was unadulterated. But not silent. In declining health since suffering a stroke late last year, he died March 18, defiant, I like to think, to the very end. He was 93. He always scoffed at the idea of retirement. […]