FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: Funding cuts for Michigan schools
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Once again, the adult population fails its children.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Once again, the adult population fails its children.
Pencil Dreams (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tim Harries is a cartoonist and someone who I know and can call a friend, although he lives (with his loverly wife) in Wales, having a social beer together never happens as we are just geographically too far away from each other. Anyway, I am a BIG fan of Tim's work and greatly admire and respect his wonderful talent. The other week I purchased his cartoon book 'Never say Dai' and he very kindly also...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our friend Rob Tornoe just sent us his most recent cartoon for Press of Atlantic City , where he is cartoonist in residence. We always like to see what you're working on, Rob. Love this.
Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
We have a reading about a boat trip and a book about a heroic dog tonight, and then three other, more intriguing events. Martin Limon reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop from his book G.I. Bones , which is about a ghost , a red-light district, and the army. Also a missing girl. It is fiction. The Central Library is hosting an event from Jack Straw Writers. The Washington Center for the Book co-presents...
Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s no secret that Nvidia and Intel are having a dispute over chipset licenses. Now it seems like Nvidia is getting a little fed up with the whole situation . On a new Nvidia website called “ Intel’s Insides ”, you’ll find a series of editorial style cartoons with some sharp criticisms of chip maker Intel. The cartoons take aim mostly at Intel’s legal woes, which...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New Delhi, Nov. 6: The Supreme Court today issued a contempt notice to activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan for remarks accusing a judge of ignoring a potential conflict of interests and awarding mining leases to a company in which he held shares.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Cartoonist: Fahed Al-Khamaisi Source: Al-Iqtisadiyya, Saudi Arabia, November 4, 2009 ... November 6, 2009, 2:49 pm
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Damn. Now they’re even controlling the spiders. Watch CBS News Videos Online A store employee in Odessa, Texas was shocked when he found a spider web resembling the Star of David in the back room of the store. Come to think of it, it’s really nothing new. From Nazi Germany: From the Soviet Union: From a Palestinian cartoonist:
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Obituary:Mustafa Mahmoud (1921-2009) Born to chooseBy Mustafa Mahmoud Mustafa Mahmoud passed away on Sunday at 88. A controversial figure during the second half of the last century, Mahmoud was famous for his popular TV series that combined nature with religion, and also endeared himself to millions of the middle and lower classes for his charity work. In 1979 he built a mosque in Mohandessin that...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Balraj’s lines and words have a reputation for their cutting quality
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In 1975, cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Stuart Hample had the bright idea to take the luckless, lovelorn, philosophical persona of Woody Allen—then famous for what the aliens in Allen’s Stardust Memories would later call his “early, funny films”—and turn it into a daily newspaper strip. Amazingly, Allen agreed, and even offered to provide Hample with...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
§ Chris Butcher finally gets around to the most perfect example of three-act structure in three panelsever accomplished, Evan Dorkin’s classic “The Moron Bomb.” § Chris Mautner interviews Eddie Campbell in advance of next week’s COMPLETE ALEC: A: I don’t feel that I’m telling my ‘life story’ as though I have done something interesting that everybody...
Journalista (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
“How nice for you. I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t really care. I know lots of people do, though, and that’s why there are now something like 100,000 apps out there for that platform. If you couldn’t compete in the direct market, what makes you think you’re going to stand out in the [...]
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In his blog entry " Is a Cartoon War Developing Over Depiction of Southern Workers? " cartoonist Rob Tornoe provides the background about two time Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey 's recent cartoon (above) for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Horsey’s cartoon is a reaction to Boeing choosing South Carolina for its second manufacturing line for the 787 Dreamliner...
sans everything (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated is one of the most exciting books of the year. I reviewed the volume for Bookforum, which can be found here. On the Inkstuds radio program, I engaged in an extended conversation on the book with Paul Stanwood, an English professor at the University of British Columbia. You can [...]