I went to Marty Murphy's memorial service on Monday at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This is only the 2nd funeral I've ever been to since I've been a grownup, and my first time at this famous cemetery. We signed in and met Marty's sister and nephew, and some people said some nice things about him. ...

I like games. I'll play them for a long time. But I don't like games with no rules at all, because it's only fun if I can learn the rules and play better. By this, my 2nd blog, it's apparent that Google is better at games than I, and believes that too much SEO knowledge ...

"Now I'm confused. Is that a black hole, or the maws of AIG?" Cartoon ©D. Barstow 2009 NOTE: My political cartoons for Slate have all been moved to The Opposite of Wrong, where I skewer all the cartoons! Who doesn't love a cartoon bashing AIG, the worst insurance company of all time? And there's a ...

OOh, great dustup on Time Magazine's list of Best Editorial Cartoons of 2008! You'll have to decide for yourself if they made the right decision, and if these cartoons are the BEST - I started to really study editorial cartoons just this year, and they don't seem great to me, but I am not one to ...

I wrote the post below last February in my Griffith Park Blog. It's a popular post, so I thought cartoon people would like to take a look at it, too. I just couldn't believe this article in the LA Times and many other papers today. But for one day.  this Sunday, nearly a dozen cartoonists of color ...

"I just told him to pack his bags, get out, and send me large checks." Of course, this is a New Yorker cartoon, or SHOULD be a New Yorker one. Tell it to Mankoff. This is for the Illustration Friday topic of PACKED. I guess divorce isn't very funny, is it? Probably why I don't have many ...