The current issue of Charlie Hebdo is a special about The New Censors. (Google translation) AlterNet looks at French humor on the fifth anniversary of the horrible terror attack: Before 2015, about 40,000 people read Charlie Hebdo each week. Given that many hundreds of thousands declared “je suis Charlie”, most were clearly not regular […]
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and will hit theaters early next month. https://youtu.be/4loOtFz–J0 Today Disney released the official trailer (above). Here The Oregonian previews the movie, shot on location in Portland, Oregon.
Newspaper comics readers might notice something different in their papers when browsing the funnies. The space where Jill Kaplan, a Jewish mother and wife living in Ohio with her family, experienced everyday life but with a humorous, modern twist in “The Pajama Diaries” for about 14 years will be replaced with panels of another adventure. […]
THE spoof magazine, MAD itself, got spoofed by Madison Magazine. From Madison Magazine: We’ve gone MAD! Don’t think we haven’t heard the whispering behind our backs from people who don’t take our monthly publication as seriously as we do: “Madison Magazine? More like MAD magazine!” Well, to those folks we say: Your wish has been […]
On occasion an old comic strip, which can be linked to current world events, will go viral. Also on occasion the comic is fake. Real or Unreal? Such is the the question regarding a recent, low-res Calvin and Hobbes strip that has flooded the internet. Snopes has confirmed that it is an actual Calvin and […]
I remember reading some swashbuckler in which, at the very start, the roughnecks who wielded broadswords were complaining about Frenchmen who fought with light foils, which they felt were not manly in that they didn’t deal death in great, slashing blows but with small, sneaky thrusts. It must have been Rafael Sabatini, because Dumas was […]