Category: The Others

Nov 16 2008

An important MySpace bulletin about Obama.

My favorite bulletin writer on MySpace, Jones, posted an alert today that I wanted to start a viral reaction to: Date: Nov 16, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: Obama is a Muslim Body: I meant to get this out there a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay.

Nov 11 2008

How many minority and women cartoonists are in the LA Times?

Blondie comic book cover

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 ...

Nov 08 2008

Doonesbury predicted an Obama victory. Quel surprise.

Credit: G. B. Trudeau / Universal Press Syndicate. It was a week ago that all the papers threw up their hands in mutual pretended concern that Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury did his Nov 5 strip early, predicting Barak Obama for the win. How to handle this delicate situation? Most papers decided to take the "risk" and run ...

Nov 07 2008

Cartoonists that give a crap.

I wanted to give a shoutout to two extremely talented and funny syndicated guys that work for a cause, and yet don't get all preachy. And note the word funny, which most certainly does not describe most syndicated strips. Both of these guys aimed many of their cartoons this fall in support of Proposition 2, ...

Oct 26 2008

Is Doonesbury hipper than me?

Hmm, maybe not.  I've recently been accused of not being a hipster, so I'm a little sensitive these days. I don't usually read Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau. I do like it, think it's extremely clever, but I regularly read only a handful of comics.  (list to be divulged at another time.) But for some reason, I ...

Oct 21 2008

I finally found a comic strip about kids that I like – Cul de Sac.

You may have noticed that I didn't have a blogroll that included other cartoonists. Until now. Richard's first book, Cul de Sac. However I noticed a long time ago that blogs who have the courage and selfconfidence to link to others, grow fat and plump. One of the early blogs I went to, Manolo's Shoe Blog, is ...

theme by Themocracy