Last Sunday’s Doonesbury used quotes by President Bush back in 1967 while the young Bush was a senior at Yale regarding frat hazing (branding students with a coat hanger). Trudeau tries to tie President Bush’s current stance on torture to his hazing days. The branding, which was exposed by the Yale paper, was first covered […]
The Courier News has announced that it will begin running Stephan Pastis’ strip Pearls Before Swine starting Monday. An unusual rat and pig take center stage in Pearls Before Swine, a daily and Sunday comic strip from United Feature Syndicate that will be featured in The Courier News starting Monday. Technorati Tags: Comic strips
Chris Lamb, author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons”, has written an article in Editor and Publisher that criticizes the Tribune Company for laying off its cartoonists and how that affects journalism. The Tribune Company, the Chicago-based media corporation, continues to do its part to gut journalism as a vital […]
While there have been a great deal of articles predicting the coming demise of the newspaper industry, there are also those who also see the industry in a great position to successfully transition to the new world of news dissemination. The San Diego Union-Tribune has an article that says when you factor in the growing […]
Daryl Cagle and Brian Fairrington have released their latest book “The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2006 Edition”. The book is 256 pages and can be purchased from Amazon for about $10. Technorati Tags: Editorial cartoon books
While slightly off topic for this site, Berenstain bear co-creator, Stan Berenstain, has passed away.
There have been a few blog postings regarding some of Ted Rall’s cartoons being a bit too offensive of late. Not wanting to link to a personal ranting blog, I’ve not touched the subject. I did run across this blog who, while still being a personal blog, does a good job of documenting the reaction […]
A Mobile County school board member is on trial for driving under the influence and his attorney has filed a motion to move the trial out of the county because: Briskman said there have been numerous “negative” stories, editorials and, in particular, editorial cartoons in the Mobile Register that “portrayed (Thomas) in a light that […]
The Hartford Courant has a great article on Eric Shansby, who at age 17 was asked to illustrate Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten’s Below the Beltway column. It’s been two years and Shansby is now at Yale and still working with Weingarten. Weingarten tells it differently.”After I talked to his high school journalism class, […]
The A.V. Club has a good interview with Boondocks creator, Aaron McGruder about taking his comic strip to the small screen. Some of the questions he answers go into the process of taking his strip into television, American politics and government and handling the public eye. AVC: Do you feel like the comic strip is […]
Time magazine has a good article on the two Los Angeles museums showing a large 900 piece exhibit on the history of American Comics that I reported on earlier. Says John Carlin, curator: When I started doing research, I felt this was a lost continent. Comics are one of the most important forms of artistic […]
AZ Daily Star Cartoonistist David Fitzsimmons will be speaking to the Arizona Association for Economic Development on December 20th. Registration is $20.
Scott Adams has posted on his blog that he is looking for help to complete a Dilbert strip. It’s 8 am, Saturday, Pacific Time, and I need help writing one line of Dilbert dialog. Dilbert is at a sales call explaining how his company’s product fits with the technology of the other company. I need […]
Today would mark the 83rd birthday for Charles Schulz. The Peanuts creator died in 2000.
The Tribune Company is getting criticized from within as Kathleen Parker of the Orlando Sentinel writes that as the parent company is trimming down the newsroom, so goes the soul of the newspaper. She also defends the value of an editorial cartoonist on the staff of a newspaper. If only they would listen. Parker, who […]