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‘Comic strips’ archive

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Jan. 11: Your Friday afternoon belly laugh

For your enjoyment: three recent samples from Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen, who builds web comic strips with (fake) newspaper headlines. Funny stuff, once again. Find the Bad Reporter online archive here.

Jan. 4: Dilbert takes on online news (1)

Funny commentary today in the Dilbert comic strip on the state of online news. Dilbert, of course, is created by Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s online home here.

Dec. 2, 2012: Comic strip artist profiled on page one

Today’s Tribune of Kokomo, Ind., profiled a local cartoonist on page one today. Sterling Clark is the creator of a new adventure hero strip — you just don’t see many of those any more. Also, he happens to be a man of color, in a field that just doesn’t have enough minority professionals. And what’s more: The star of his [...]

Nov. 28, 2012: Edgy cartoonist protests cancellation by Boston alt-weekly

The sequence of events… 1. Karl Stevens — writer and artist of a graphic novel-like comic strip called Failure that’s run, in various forms, in the alt-weekly Boston Phoenix since 2005 — makes fun of a product sold by one of the paper’s biggest advertisers, Bud Light beer. 2. The paper cancels the strip. As Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein [...]

Oct. 7, 2012: Damn right

Boy, did Garry Trudeau get it right today. Find Doonesbury‘s home on the web here.

Oct. 5, 2012: The final word on the first presidential debate

The final word on Debate No. 1 of the 2012 presidential election season is in, courtesy of Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle. Funny stuff, once again. Find the Bad Reporter online archive here. Wait a minute… Correction: The real last word on the first presidential debate is this early Christmas Card, posted this week by [...]

Sept. 26, 2012: Your belly laugh for the day

Brilliant satire today from Bad Reporter comic artist Don Asmussen of the San Fransisco Chronicle. Find Don’s online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Bad Reporter: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores Charlie Sheen‘s nutty behavior The Osama bin Laden story Fake [...]

Aug. 23, 2012: Dilbert’s take on LinkedIn

I know the feeling. I use LinkedIn nearly every day. I’m just glad LinkedIn‘s recent site redesign didn’t affect the functionality of the site. Like Facebook‘s constant tweaking sometime does. Dilbert, of course, is drawn by Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s home on the web here.

May 15, 2012: Print should consider leveraging what print does best (1)

Stephan Pastis of the Pearls Before Swine comic strip takes on the New York Times: Funny stuff. Stephan pokes fun at it. But, y’know, he has a point. Comic strips and panels were invented more than a century ago at a time when newspapers were scratching and clawing to find readers. The Yellow Kid was nothing more than a gimmick, [...]

April 13, 2012: Here’s your Friday evening belly laugh

The latest from Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle: Genius stuff, as usual from Don. Find his online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores Charlie Sheen‘s nutty behavior The Osama bin Laden story [...]

Feb. 19, 2012: In web-related media business news this weekend…

More fun from the snarky, snarky mind of cartoonist Don Asmussen: Don works for the San Francisco Chronicle. Find his online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores Charlie Sheen‘s nutty behavior The Osama bin [...]

Feb. 10, 2012: ‘If you really hate someone… ‘

Randall Munroe of the web comic xkcd today covers the bane of existence for all type geeks: Randall was all over the death of Steve Jobs and the great East Coast earthquake, as well. xkcd updates three times a week. Find the strip’s home page here.

Feb. 3, 2012: Doonesbury takes on QR codes

Doonesbury took on QR codes Thursday: Doonesbury of course, is by Garry Trudeau. Find the strip’s online home here. Previous mentions of Doonesbury here in the blog: Sept. 17, 2008: “You’re being offered a buyout. You’re one of the lucky ones.” March 2, 2009: “About to scratch myself, stand by.” June 29, 2009: “No, thanks. I hear they’re dying.” Jan. [...]

Jan. 28, 2012: Your weekend belly laugh

The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Don Asmussen just keeps getting funnier and funnier. Brilliant stuff. Find Don’s online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores Charlie Sheen‘s nutty behavior The Osama bin Laden story Fake pictures [...]

Jan. 21, 2012: Don Asmussen’s take on the GOP primary and the cruise liner wreck

Funny stuff as usual from the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Don Asmussen: With just the Republican primary alone, Don’s had plenty to work with over the past few weeks: Find Don’s online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy [...]

Jan. 12, 2012: The future of advertising and media (1)

Forget everything you’ve read about the future of media and advertising. I saw this brilliant, brilliant cartoon today by Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. I can just about see this really happening… You saw it here first. Zach’s work is terrific. He posts daily. Find SMBC here.

Nov. 23, 2011: Calling all comic strip fans: Soon, you, too, can go Pogo (1)

Hitting bookstores right about… now… is a new collection of classic Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly. Published by Fantagraphics books, this book collects the very first of Kelly’s syndicated Pogo strips, starting in May 1949 and running through the end of 1950. Also included are Sunday strips from that same period and Pogo strips from the New York Star [...]

Nov. 2, 2011: The last word on the Herman Cain controversy…

…comes today from Don Asmussen. Brilliant. Don is the artist and writer for Bad Reporter, a regular online feature of the San Francisco Chronicle. Find the Bad Reporter web page here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores [...]

Oct. 31, 2011: The conclusion of the Victoria Advocate’s Halloween-themed graphic novel

For each of the past four Sundays, the Victoria Advocate — a 28,300-circulation daily in Victoria, Texas — has published two full broadsheet-sized installments of a Halloween-themed graphic novel written and illustrated by staffer Robert Zavala and using images of local folks as “actors.” The first two installments were published Oct. 9. Click for a larger look:   The next [...]

Oct. 30, 2011: ‘Dilbert’ takes on ‘digital media curation’

Boy, is there a lot of truth in this one. That’s today’s Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams. Previous times that strip has appeared here in the blog: Dilbert takes on creativity Dilbert takes on social media Dilbert takes on art departments Dilbert takes on aggregation Find Dilbert‘s home on the web here.

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