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‘Cartooning’ archive

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Jan. 21: 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. 21: A field guide to Canadians in winter (1)

In her sketch blog today, Tonia Cowan of the Toronto Globe and Mail presents a field guide on how to identify Canadians during winter. Click for a larger view: Cute. Tonia has a lot of fun in her sketch blog. Some of her entries are gags like you might see in a high-class magazine. Others are simply doodles she makes [...]

Jan. 14: Superhero-style illustrations of Green Bay Packers stars by Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller

Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller produced a series of full-page posters this week commemorating the Packers’ run at a second consecutive Super Bowl trophy. The series of pull-out posters began on Monday with receiver Greg Jennings, at upper left.       The poster starring Clay Matthews — bottom right — ran today. The motif is kind of [...]

Jan. 12: 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.

Jan. 12: Best take yet on the Mitt Romney “I like to fire people” comment

Politicians are always screaming that their comments have been taken out of context. They say that especially when they get in trouble for saying something stupid. Many times with folks like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, the comments were not, in fact, edited or taken out of context. Mitt Romney took a lot of heat recently for his “I like [...]

Dec. 12, 2011: Behind the Indiana Daily Student’s coverage of a huge basketball win (2)

Indiana University’s huge, last-second 73-72 win over No. 1-ranked Kentucky Saturday couldn’t have come at a better time for the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. The IDS — which publishes only on weekdays — had all day Sunday to work on the final edition before students bolted for home. So, what did they do? Not to mix metaphors, but they knocked [...]

Dec. 9, 2011: Your Geekazoid Friday laugh for the day

Comic book writer and artist Kerry Callen shows us what easily could have happened when baby Kal-El’s rocket crash-landed near Smallville, Kansas: Yep. Could have happened. In fact, that might have made for a much better Smallville TV series. I mean, John Schneider? Really? Kerry also has a fabulously warped take on the origin of the Batman as well: Coming [...]

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. 15, 2011: Brilliant ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ parody in the Boston Globe

Cartoonist Ward Sutton created a full page commentary piece for Sunday’s Boston Globe, comparing the administration of President Barack Obama to the to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of children’s books by Jeff Kinney. The “news peg”: The latest book in the series is released today. Click for a larger view: This is a downright brilliant observation. It [...]

Nov. 14, 2011: A look at two controversial magazine covers

Let’s take a quick look at two magazine covers that have stirred up a bit of controversy. One ran and one did not. — CHARLIE HEBDO First up: Charlie Hebdo, a satirical left-wing weekly based in Paris, France. You may have heard about this a couple of weeks ago. Charlie Hebdo announced that its Nov. 2 issue would be guest-edited [...]

Nov. 13, 2011: A look at Sunday’s Penn State football front pages (3)

Saturday marked the first Penn State University football game since 1949 that Joe Paterno wasn’t on the sidelines and the first since 1966 in which he wasn’t head coach for the Nittany Lions. This was traumatic to players and Penn State fans. Others, of course, were quick to point out that this wasn’t nearly as traumatic as what happened to [...]

Nov. 4, 2011: Geekazoid Friday: You can die as part of a Star Trek story. Wearing a red shirt.

As the Klingons say: Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam Or… Today is a good day to die! Especially if you’re only doing it in comic book form. On the front cover, in fact. IDW Publishing — creator of Star Trek comic books — is holding a special promotion for local retailers and their customers. They’re asking fans to write 300 words or [...]

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 [...]

Nov. 1, 2011: County GOP plays with Photoshop fire… and gets burned

UPDATE: The Loudoun County Republicans didn’t actually create these images. They just pulled them off the web and used them. See the note below. Serious judgment issues on the part of somebody, however, still apply… — A cartoon in a Halloween-themed Republican e-mail set off a firestorm of protests — even among Republicans — for depicting the President of the [...]

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.

Oct. 28, 2011: Geekazoid Friday: Kryptonite candy for Halloween

I can’t eat candy any more. If you can — and if you love Superman comic books — then try this for something to take to that weekend Halloween party. Enjoy! Thanks to Boing Boing for blogging this today.

Oct. 27, 2011: Thursday’s World Series pages… and cartoons

As expected, last night’s World Series game was a wash. A rainout. The Rangers and Cardinals will try again tonight. ________ GAME SIX Tonight, 8:05 p.m. EDT at St. Louis Rangers lead series, 3-2 — STAR-TELEGRAM Fort Worth, Texas Circulation: 151,753 The folks at the Fort Worth paper led page one today with a photo of pitcher Derek Holland gazing [...]

Oct. 24, 2011: The next two installments of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate’s graphic novel (1)

As we’ve mentioned before, one of my favorite small papers in the country — the 28,300-circulation Victoria (Texas) Advocate — is publishing a supernatural-themed graphic novel this month. Every Sunday, the Advocate runs two full-page broadsheet installments. Parts one and two ran on Oct. 9. Click for a larger view.   Parts three and four inserted Oct. 16.   Parts [...]

Oct. 16, 2011: Who is that mysterious stranger in Camelot? (2)

Do you get Prince Valiant in your Sunday comics section? We do. The Virginian-Pilot‘s new-and-improved comics are smaller than ever before these days, making it very difficult to read Prince Valiant. But we still enjoy it every Sunday. Which brings me to the strip’s new storyline. A mysterious blonde man appeared in the story this week. He appears what seems [...]

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