Laugh Tracks

Tramp Steamer Entry #3 (sorta inappropriate, so don't click if you can't handle innuendo)

 

The link has a better resolution. http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=csfiq&uc_full_date=11540101

-JG

from Ted Rall

Tramp Steamer entry #2

Here's the second entry into the "Tramp Steamer" proposal, this is from JC and I like the absurdity of this one. It sounds like something I might say in a company meeting if a light fixture had come lose from its bolts and hit me on the head ... which is tentatively scheduled for next week.

Check out more of JC's stuff at  http://www.walking-upright.com/

-JG

Weekend wrap-up 3/30/09: Public Service Announcement

The GoComics administrators would like me to make a public service announcement warning people NOT TO HUNT IN THE WOODS NEAR LIO'S HOUSE. 

That being said, I'd love to see a video of this contraption, which I'm imagining as operating similarly to the AT-ST Walkers found in the Star Wars Trilogy (although with even cooler sound effects)

I thought this was cute. I've found more than one mouse in my living area over the years and usually wind up just going back to sleep. Finding out it's a small one is always something of a relief, and a good enough excuse not to do anything. Finding a little human going through my fridge would be pretty frightening, though. 

Last but not least...yesterday's Argyle Sweater was originally supposed to run last year, but after the sudden collapse and euthanization of Eight Belles at the 2008 Kentucky Derby, everyone decided it would be better to wait on this one. Now that we've had 10 months to dry our eyes a bit, here it is. 

Unfortunately, comics imitate life in the sense that there's not always a happy ending. Even on Sundays. 

Check back in all week for more scintillating tidbits of life in the comics industry fast lane right here on the good old editor's blog. 

-LW

David Fletcher ... first across the finish line.

Thanks to David Fletcher for being the first to submit a cartoon with the phrase, "I thought I was on the fo'c'sle of a tramp steamer." Very nice.

David be sure to give us a link where we can see more of your work.

The offer still stands ... you include the phrase in a comic. I'll post it here.

-JG

Pooch Minus Poncho

 

Over at the Pooch Cafe blog, a fan took the liberty of applying the "Garfield Minus Garfield" theorem into the Pooch Cafe world (more examples at Paul's blog). Frankly, I don't want to live in a world without Poncho, so while I appreciate the effort, I cannot endorse it.

-JG

Some solid financial advice for cartoonists

Thanks to Bill A. for the head's up.

Nickelodeon Mag Comics Awards Winners: Garfield, Calvin and Bone!

The most famous feline on the comics page was the big winner in the first ever Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards. The award for Favorite Comic Strip went to Garfield, by Jim Davis, which beat out finalists Calvin and Hobbes, FoxTrot, Peanuts and Mutts.

Take heart, Calvin fans: While he missed out on the Favorite Comic Strip award, Calvin didn't go home empty-handed, winning the Best Hair in Comics award. (Not bad for a kid who's been enjoying retirement for more than a decade.)

And lastly, Jeff Smith's Bone won the award for Favorite Fantasy Graphic Novel. The entire Bone series, originally published in black and white from 1991-2004, was reprinted in color by Scholastic Books' graphic novel imprint, Graphix. The first nine issues of the color series have also been re-released in a series of comic apps produced by Uclick for iPhone and iPod touch.

-uclick

Nickelodeon Mag Comics Awards Winners: Garfield, Calvin and Bone!

The most famous feline on the comics page was the big winner in the first ever Nickelodeon Magazine Comics Awards. The award for Favorite Comic Strip went to Garfield, by Jim Davis, which beat out finalists Calvin and Hobbes, FoxTrot, Peanuts and Mutts.

Take heart, Calvin fans: While he missed out on the Favorite Comic Strip award, Calvin didn't go home empty-handed, winning the Best Hair in Comics award. (Not bad for a kid who's been enjoying retirement for more than a decade.)

And lastly, Jeff Smith's Bone won the award for Favorite Fantasy Graphic Novel. The entire Bone series, originally published in black and white from 1991-2004, was reprinted in color by Scholastic Books' graphic novel imprint, Graphix. The first nine issues of the color series have also been re-released in a series of comic apps produced by Uclick for iPhone and iPod touch.

Read the story from Universal Press Syndicate here.

Richard's Poor Almanac

   

Richard's Poor Almanac buy here

Two-time NCS strip of the year nominee, Richard Thompson, recently let it slip in conversation that his gorgeous and hysterical book collection of his Washington Post feature "Richard's Poor Almanac" had sold out. Do yourself a favor and do whatever you have to do to get your hands on one.

The foreword (above) is by UPS' own two-time Reuben and Pulitzer prize-winner, Pat Oliphant. And keep that in mind that Pat does not throw around praise easily or readily ... so it's all the more of a feat.