Laugh Tracks

Dylan Williams' Bill Blackbeard interview

Dylan Williams has posted a wonderful tribute to Bill Blackbeard, the comics historian who passed away last month. Williams includes a lengthy published interview with Blackbeard, and it's a great read. 

How movies are made

I will be seeing this this weekend...

 

Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of "Fast Five"

via Slate

Can you guess this cartoonist?

Tough call because it's an old photo. For reference this snapshot was taken just before the Reubens last year. The socks pulled high is a dead giveaway. 

Not that Jersey Shore needed improvement...

      

(warning: there is some vulgar language)

via the internets at large

Wedding! Royal Wedding!

See the collection of editorial cartoons about the Royal Wedding here!

(cartoon by Signe Wilkinson)

Rare Peanuts -- more auctions

http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7033&Lot_No=92167

Ted Rall WILL draw an editorial cartoon about anything you want! *

If I win, I'm going to have him draw about a misunderstood syndicate editor and how people should appreciate him even if he can be too proactive sometimes because he really does have a good heart and maybe if you'd ever be nice to him you'd see he has a lot to offer. And maybe if you just said "hi" instead of going out of your way not to walk by him, he'd stop leaving all that smelly cheese in the office refrigerator. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Have-Ted-Rall-Draw-Political-Cartoon-Just-You-/150596899441?hash=item2310465271&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_544wt_1141

* You do have to win the auction

Sometimes I wish my name was Steve

and sometimes I wish I had $799. 

http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=256796&start=36&page=157

 

 

 

 

Herblock Prize winner Tom Toles profiled

 

Politico.com has a great piece on Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tom Toles, who will be honored Tuesday with the Herblock Prize. Toles talks about being dragged into editorial cartooning by Douglas Turner, his editor at the Buffalo Courier-Express:

 

“I said ‘No, I don’t want to do that,’” Toles recalled. “‘I don’t have the skills. I don’t have the interest. I don’t have the knowledge.’ That seems like a pretty good case, right? Three disqualifiers.”

 

But Turner wanted him to try it anyway, so he did. “I kept trying to get out of it. Hated it. Just hated it. And I was pretty bad, in my opinion. But he just kept at it and at it and at it.”

 

Read the whole piece on Politico.com.

If it's Tuesday I'm still talking about Portal

...but not playing it. Why am I not playing Portal 2 right now? Oh yes...work. via the Hairpin