“We had a thing, where there were four of us, I don’t know if we ever mentioned this, I would get together with Sam Gross, Bill Woodman… once a month we’d all meet at Sam’s apartment, and we would sit down and we would open the phone book— we’d get the yellow pages, and […]
Matthew Inman is suspending The Oatmeal production for the nonce Matthew lets fans know of the coming hiatus and why (scroll to the bottom): I am happy to announce that I am in development on my own animated feature for Illumination. In short: I got a movie deal. The good news: I’m making a […]
In the early 1940s Dr. Seuss, as an editorial cartoonist, was advocating for U.S. intervention in Europe, opposing the isolationists. A two year old article, showcasing Dr. Seuss’s cartoons against the America First crowd. hat tip to Matt Wuerker for bringing this back. (updated)
Epic, the digital reading platform and library for kids, is teaming up with Andrews McMeel Publishing, home to Big Nate and Calvin & Hobbes, to produce a line of children’s books. Under the new arrangement, AMP will publish print editions of Epic Originals digital books, a content line that Epic debuted in March. […]
Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy van Pelt and the other “Peanuts” characters, entered the 1990s as an elder statesman in American popular culture… On June 6, 1993, Schulz drew a comic strip that had little visual relationship to anything that had previously appeared in “Peanuts.” In three grim panels, the […]
Peter Brookes holds up the mirror with a cartoon so simple that I almost passed it by as obvious. But sometimes “obvious” is the best message, the clearest possible image, and Trump makes it obvious himself, and not only by adopting the “America First” slogan that our bund leaders and isolationists used when they […]