Industry news for the professional cartoonist
I know I was supposed to laugh at today’s Arctic Circle, but my response was “That would have been so cool!” I think, had Alex Hallatt had the drone say something like “Don’t pick your nose!” or “Put your gloves on,” she’d have gotten the intended response, but “Come home now!” unleashed a flood. A…
Mr. Fitz came along this morning as the third part of an odd bit of synchronicity, which is a fancy word for “coincidence” that assumes the cosmos does these things on purpose. To deal with the cartoon first of all, this is, unfortunately, something that will ring true with good teachers and probably won’t be…
Let’s start the week with a surprise: They still make Gravy Train. Well, I was surprised, anyway. Sherman’s Lagoon has been toying with this little dog shark for several days and it’s been a fun arc, but today’s stopped me, because I thought, of all the time-worn irrelevant references in comic strips, Gravy Train really…
“All this happened, more or less.” Publishers Weekly is reporting: Indie graphic novel house Boom! Studios announced plans to publish a graphic version of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, to be adapted into a graphic novel by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zaplana. The book will be released…
(Mo) (Non Sequitur) (Arlo and Janis) “Where’s your social consciousness?” Abbie Hoffman screamed, and then broke into giggles at the humorless politicos who decried anyone who dared to have fun while a war was going on. This three-way Juxtaposition sums up my current mood: I share Mo’s despair, but I agree with Kate…
Here’s the last episode of the Pajama Diaries, though, as she notes, you can relive the experience from the start by staying tuned to Comics Kingdom. And I hope, if you care enough to be here looking at comics, you do shell out the twenty bucks a year for full access to Comics Kingdom. Thanks…
A couple of Sunday funnies to start things gently. Zits made me smile partially for the portrait of a young teen finding a way to show off powers beyond his true capacity, and partially for the memory of doing the same thing myself. Not quite this. But at about 12 or 13, I had a…
That last panel of today’s Sherman’s Lagoon could be a poster. However, I appreciate the lead up, in which it becomes my fault that I didn’t notice your anguish without your having to say, “I’m in a crappy mood” or “Boy, have I had a lousy day.” Because why should you miss the chance to…
One of the facts of life for reporters is that the news is a 24/7 thing and someone is going to have to work on holidays. Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm reminds me of a favorite story. I have several favorite working-on-Christmas stories, because after you’ve run around and talked to the people at the…
A leftover from yesterday, this Pajama Diaries has been rattling around in my consciousness for a couple of reasons. One is that, as Terri Libenson brings the comic to a close — there’s only two weeks left — I’m going to really miss it but I suspect that she, like Jill, is doing a little…
Sally Forth specializes in bizarre takes on holidays, but they get special credit for last Sunday’s take, which kept me wondering what the hell was going on until the last panel. A lot of their weirdness relies on your being familiar with the characters, but this is an excellent standalone — anybody could stumble into…
Danae may be ahead of her classmates in today’s Non Sequitur, but they’ll follow soon enough. The notion that what’s said on-line stays on-line is nonsense. I remember, in about 2003, going to see a principal at an elementary school so rural (How rural was it?) so rural that you could see cows in the…
This Phil Hands piece is a good opener on a day when a power failure has delayed the process. It had nothing to do with weather but the lack of power is lack of heat in the house, which puts me in the mood. The police in Hands’ home base of Madison are, I suppose,…
Pat Bagley starts us off with a depressingly accurate look at things. The comment on the tax on services identifies this as a local comment on Utah politics, but it applies nationally as well. I suppose they might listen if they were more beholden to local voters than to corporate contributors, but an Amendment to…
Michael de Adder picks up on the news that Canada’s athlete of the year and the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year are both women. Tennis player Bianca Andreescu was the unanimous pick for Canada’s Lou Marsh Trophy, while women’s soccer hero Megan Rapinoe was chosen by SI for her courage as well as her…