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July 20, 2011: Going to the San Diego Comic-Con? Keep an eye out for Paul Horn

Former San Diego Union-Tribune news artist and illustrator Paul Horn is preparing for yet another crazy week at the San Diego Comic-Con. A 1991 graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno, Paul spent a year as an illustrator for the Daily Sparks Tribune of Sparks, Nev., before becoming assistant graphics editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal in 1990. He moved to the [...]

July 12, 2011: When grammar freaks get freaky (1)

A very funny cartoon today from Randall Munroe of the web comic xkcd: The cartoonist adds: The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it’s virtually guaranteed to be well written. Find the xkcd web comic home page here. Thanks to Melissa Umbarger of the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record for pointing this out tonight via Facebook.

May 18, 2011: Best take I’ve seen yet on the Schwarzenegger story

This was posted today by Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle on his Bad Reporter web comic page. Sheer brilliance. Find Bad Reporter here. Previous times I’ve shown you 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 [...]

May 12, 2011: Victoria (Texas) Advocate comic panel teaches lessons in history you didn’t know (1)

Have you ever wondered just how the hell Joe Biden got elected? I have. Until now. A new illustrated feature on the Victoria (Texas) Advocate web site explained it to me. Check it out: The 13th Amendment, allowing for the popular election of senators, is ratified. Before, senators were chosen through a combination of monkey paws, magic potatoes and goat [...]

May 7, 2011: Your Saturday morning belly laugh

Courtesy of Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle and author of the Bad Reporter online comic strip. I just wrote about Don and his work on Thursday. Read more here. Find his web page here.

May 5, 2011: Don Asmussen has the final word on the bin Laden story

And, as usual, the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Bad Reporter cartoonist knocks it out of the hidden compound. If you’re not reading Don Asmussen once or twice a week, then clearly, you’re a terrorist-loving, commie pinko Oakland Raiders fan. Find him here. And bookmark that, please. Previous times I’ve shown you Don’s work: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean [...]

April 7, 2011: Laugh for the day

If you didn’t see Monday’s Zits! comic strip, check this out. Zits! is by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman. Find it online here.

March 4, 2011: The definitive word on Charlie Sheen AND Khadafy

As he has so many times recently, Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle has the very last word on both the overhyped Charlie Sheen story and the Moammar Khadafy story. The weirdest thing about this gag? I’d actually like to see it happen. Sheen probably could use a little counseling from an experienced leader like Khadafy. And it would [...]

Feb. 17, 2011: The definitive word on the bankruptcy of Borders bookstores

Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle has done it again. Even before the story is cold, he’s managed to get in the definitive last word on the financial problems of Borders bookstores. Brilliant stuff. Just brilliant. I’ve posted Don’s Bad Reporter comic strips before. Look here and here and here and here. Check out his online archive here.

Jan. 13, 2011: For your consideration…

As he does on so many issues, Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle gets the last word on the political tussle over the Tucson shootings: Brilliant stuff. I’ve posted Don’s Bad Reporter comic strips before. Look here and here and here. Check out his online archive here.

Oct. 16, 2010: Saturday jollies with Don Asmussen

Are you guys  regular readers of Don Asmussen‘s Bad Reporter online comic strip? You should be. Consistently, he puts out funny, funny stuff. Every bit as good as the Onion, if not better. Comparing the Chilean miner rescuse to a claw games? Genius. And after a week in which we all laughed at the Gap’s logo debacle, how you could [...]

Sept. 28, 2010: Ten reasons to hire a journalist… in cartoon form (1)

Last year, Jill Geisler of Poynter wrote an open letter to prospective employers, giving ten reasons why a former journalist would make a great hire in nearly any line of work. A year-and-a-half later, Patrick Garvin — of Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union — decided to dust off Jill’s column and see if he could add anything to it by adding illustrations [...]

Sept. 27, 2010: The final word on the Katy Perry/Sesame Street incident

Don’t bother to tell me anything else about this story. I now know all I need to know, thanks to Don Asmussen‘s Bad Reporter comic strip: Don exercises his funnybone for the San Francisco Chronicle. Find the Bad Reporter home page here. Find the strip’s archive here. I posted a selection of Bad Reporter excerpts as few weeks ago. Find [...]

Sept. 14, 2010: Dilbert takes on social media

The Dilbert comic strip this week takes on social media. Click either of the strips below for a larger view. Here was yesterday’s strip, lampooning the way companies want to embrace the power of social media, but don’t trust it yet: And here is today’s installment: As always, funny stuff from Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s official home on the web [...]

Sept. 4, 2010: Headlines you might have missed

Headlines from the past month or so that you might have missed: These howlers are from Don Asmussen‘s online comic strip, Bad Reporter. Find it here at the web site of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Sept. 2, 2010: Chicago Tribune cartoonists in action, c. 1931

Check out this incredible “documentary” — more like a promotional film, I think — called From Trees to Tribunes. It starts out with the Chicago Tribune‘s illustrators and editorial cartoonists and moves directly into the paper’s stable of comic strip artists: At the risk of stating the obvious, this film was shot 79 years ago. Just amazing. I sure hate [...]

July 16, 2010: At your local post office, starting today: Calvin and Hobbes

Don’t settle for stamps that show birds or flags or presidents or anything like that. The next time you send out a letter, slap one of these on the envelope: Oh, yeah. The late, great Calvin and Hobbes. This is just one of five “Sunday funnies” stamps released today by the U.S. Postal service (click for a larger look): Read [...]

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