July 25, 2010

“America’s greatest quadriplegic, recovering alcoholic cartoonist” (prev.) has died at 59. John Callahan drew irreverent cartoons (some too irreverent – scroll down), created one cartoon series for kids and another for adults (plus animated versions of many of his comics), wrote and performed songs, and collected his hate mail. He was a local celebrity in Portland, Oregon, the subject of a Dutch documentary and an unlikely role model. “The odor of mortality (was) hard to avoid around Callahan,” and now it has caught up with him.

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September 22, 2008

Okay, Talk Like a Pirate Day is over, and the On-and-Off-Line-Comic World’s reaction has been rather underwhelming. Even Devil’s Panties showed a lack of swashbuckly enthusiasm. Irregular Webcomic, which has something like a two-year buffer, remembered the date this year. Medium-Large injected a dose of disturbing modern reality. Pearls Before Swine brought us a croc pirate (with obvious results). Cow and Boy not only had a character who got it wrong, but ran the strip a day late.

In other comicality, Bruno the Bandit has achieved a comics crossovers that may have been even too bizarre for Medium-Large. Savage Chickens proved once again that nobody can sell an old joke like Tommy Tofu. And the deeply pun-centric Get Fuzzy has come up with a trifecta – punny, nerdy and put-downy from the usually-just-annoying Bucky Katt.

Meanwhile, in real life, the endeavor to use Comic Press to give this Comics Blog a unique look has fallen into so many complications (including thoroughly fubarred navigation) I may have to pull the plug. So if this looks any more “unique” in the next few days, it’s just in transition to something less unique.

September 19, 2008

So much to catch up on, from the highlights to the lowlights, but, hey, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties and me liveries and me spleenies! To think we just got over <a href="http://www.ryanestrada.com/"Talk Like Ryan Estrada Day. The Savage Chickens have been piratey all week, and you know this is one meme that’s going to be all over every known part of webcomicland, so stay tuned for updates. Maybe I can kill two birds with one cliche by showing which comics have walked the plank, then jumped the shark.

September 4, 2008

It’s coming together… the 950 pixel-wide format for the DailySurf “strip” is set up, the Funnypaper Les mascot is ready (I took David Willis’s blogger and literally turned his frown upside down), and some of there were some entertaining things happening in the big syndicate sites…
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