Laugh Tracks

Animated Pooch Café!

Check out these animated Pooch Café strips, posted on YouTube by RingTales.com. (Via Alan Gardner of the Daily Cartoonist.)

RingTales has also posted a series of Cul de Sac animations:

So what does everyone think about animated comic strips?

Video: The Argyle Sweater on new greeting cards

From Universal Press Syndicate:

Beginning April 1, Recycled Paper Greetings (RPG) introduces an exclusive collection of cards featuring the comic panel The Argyle Sweater that will be available through mass retailers, drug stores and specialty stores nationwide. Included in the April launch are 12 birthday and just-for-laughs card designs. The Argyle Sweater is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

Here's a video featuring The Argyle Sweater creator Scott Hilburn talking about the new card line:

 

And in case you missed it, here's an animated The Argyle Sweater cartoon that was created to promote the new book:

 

New Comic: The Doozies!

What can we say about The Doozies that hasn't been said countless times in the strip's near-70 years of existence?

Everyone knows the strip follows the antics of Dean Doozie, a lovable boob, who has an understanding wife and an adorable daughter. Is there anyone on earth who isn't aware that the strip was created in 1939 by Flaude Gammill, and that it helped popularize the phrase, "a real doozy?" You would have to look under quite a few rocks to find someone who hadn't heard that The Doozies is now being drawn by Flaude's grandson, TV writer/producer Tom Gammill (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, SNL), who has recently added such innovations as characters playing video games and women wearing pantsuits.

Well, we'll tell you all of that stuff anyway, despite the fact that Tom Gammill made up all of those historical Doozie facts in a shameless attempt to drum up interest in this brand new, completely original and hilarious strip (but he really is a TV writer/producer for all of those shows, and really has a grandfather named Flaude). You can just pretend like you already knew, since you were about to do that anyway.

The Doozies is the latest addition to GoComics.com.

Here's Tom on YouTube, with Lesson One of his video series "Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill":

And for a few more Tom Gammill comics, visit Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts website and click on the "Don't Let This Happen to You" cartoon ad on the lower left. Then buy another copy of all of Handey's books, of course.

Time Capsule: Cartoonists in 1982!

Check out this "Weekend Magazine" news segment featuring Garfield creator Jim Davis and the late, great Doug Marlette, among others. It originally aired on WAGA in Atlanta in 1982:

(Thanks to Tom Spurgeon)