From the editors @ Universal Press Syndicate

Please Welcome Our Newest Comic Launch, "Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time Traveler"

I was going to try and ruse you and tell you that this was the next strip we were launching, but I couldn't do that to you, we've gone through too much for me to play with your emotions like that. It is, however, a delightful Tom the Dancing Bug installment of an old Super Comix Fun Pak.

-JG

 

Congrats to U/U's Tony Auth on his Pulitzer Prize-finalism ...

 ... and to Editorial Cartoon winner Mark Fiore (ex-uclicker/sfgate.com) and co-finalist Matt Wuerker (Politico).

-JG

When Comics and Reality Meet

So there I was minding my own business at the Royals game yesterday when between innings they did this sort of "Wheel of Fortune" thing with a guy in the crowd. The clue (which I've no idea what they call on the gameshow) is effectively two nouns connected by a common word. And so it was ... on the amazing HDTV scoreboard: (You get all the letters flipped in the puzzle that contain R-O-Y-A-L-S.

S A _ _ Y    _ A _ A R

_ _ _

_ _ R R _ _ L _

Can you get it? Do you care? Is it vain to color your hair a blue-ish gray?

-JG
 

Look there! In the midnight sky!

 

Oh, my goshness! It's a bloodthirsty demon with poor taste in headwear come to devour us all! Make peace with your respective deity and say your goodbyes for tonight we die!

 
Ha. Sorry, I did that. I hope I didn't scare you too much. I just know how hard it is to get your attention. I want to take a moment to talk about something that matters, but first let me ask you an important question. Aren't you tired of bowing down before the tyranny of inferior hosiery? 

What if I could release you from those cotton and arcylic bonds?

Because I've just been introduced to a new type of sock. A sock made for the bumping and grinding of the 21st Century. A sock designed for performance, whether it's in the boardroom or the bedroom.  That sock, friends, is Toby Robot Satan sock. Made from a space-age polymer, Tony Robot Satan sock stands for everything that's right in this world: support, comfort and tingling your calves.

I suggest, nay I demand, you get your Toby Robot Satan sock today. I did. *And I've never been happier. Shop here now

-JG

* Not true, I met Alfons Ribeiro once and that's still #1. Sorry for deceiving you.

Pixels

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.

Thanks to Samuel Mullen for the link.

-JG

Tom Toles on Bloggingheads

(full video here!)

from Bloggingheads.

-SW

Lio cake: This tastes funny

 
Saw this on Mark's Facebook page ... Lio fan Ramon Caro dishes the sweet, sweet truth.

-JG

Let's celebrate 10 Years of Baldo, why not?

 
Congrats to the dynamic duo of Hector and Carlos. I can't believe it's been ten years. My goodness.

Check it out.

-JG

 

Our Editorial Cartoonists Accomplish Great Things

Well hello there! Where have I been, you ask? Well, do the words "Emmett," "Kelly" and "Museum" mean anything to you? I thought so.

This is actually relevant to the news I have to share, as Emmett Kelly's original dream was to become an editorial cartoonist. (I am not making this up. This is something my father read about while I was inspecting the small train that went around a little track and played circus music.)

While I've been off poring over paintings of sad clowns and fascinating circus posters and costumes, our editorial cartoonists have been busy!

Bit of News #1:

Ted Rall has successfully raised funds to return to Afghanistan.

Bit of News #2:

Donna Barstow has won the Editors' Award in the Council for Secular Humanism's Free Expression Cartoon Contest.

Congratulations to them both!

And now, for your viewing pleasure, Emmett Kelly on "What's My Line?"

-SW

Oliphant

This ran in March of 2002 ... still poignant. Only one newspaper The Record (Troy, N.Y.) had the courage to run it. And Pat has a client list in the 300-400 range. 

Congrats to Pat on his 30th anniversary with U/U. 

I had the pleasure of touring his Sante Fe studio last year. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Oil painting, sculpture, illustration ... I was and am in awe of his talent.

-JG