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RSS FeedArchive: October 18, 2009 - October 24, 2009
Playing the Palace: Hours back from Iraq, top cartoonists share tales of a USO tour
I'm sitting in a hotel bar-and-grille that's so close to Virginia's Dulles International Airport, the hotel's walls have flight-time boards that flicker like mood lighting in the lobby. The mood at my table is a bit more subdued. Until,...
By Michael Cavna | October 24, 2009; 9:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
A salute to Monty Python animation? This blogpost most assuredly is SPAM
The joy in celebrating Monty Python's brilliant high-jinks is not dead yet. All this week, IFC has been saluting the comedy troupe's 40th anniversary by airing the swell new six-part docuseries, "Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)"...
By Michael Cavna | October 23, 2009; 9:05 AM ET | Comments (0)
When the Incredible Shrinking Comic Reaches the Reader's Tipping Point
Henry Allen's patience is shrinking like a stamp-sized comic. Pica by evaporating pica, the funnypages are testing his will to read. He might find "Judge Parker" beautifully drawn, but it is Henry who will be rendering his decision to...
By Michael Cavna | October 22, 2009; 9:35 AM ET | Comments (16)
'Riffs Picks: From the Washington Dreadskins cartoon to Comics Volunteerism week, today's top contenders
Do not adjust your set, your settings or your funnypages. As you've probably noticed by now, volunteerism is running rampant in the comics this week -- and by that, we don't just mean the meddlesome Keane kids "drawing" "Family...
By Michael Cavna | October 21, 2009; 9:05 AM ET | Comments (5)
'Riffs Picks: From iPhone art to the 'Addams Family' obit, today's eye-catching images
THE RIFF: Taking care of cartooning's breakout hits... In comics, the '80s are remembered by many with a halycyon glow, thanks especially to a trio of beacons: the brilliant creative lights who launched the masterworks "Calvin and Hobbes," "Bloom County"...
By Michael Cavna | October 20, 2009; 9:35 AM ET | Comments (13)
Should 'Pearls' be cast before swine? Time to Defend That 'Toon
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE: Oh, Rat leaves his mark all right. (UFS)Enlarge Comic. Now that cartoonist Stephan Pastis is out of the country and otherwise preoccupied, haha -- something about visiting troops in the Persian Gulf and whatnot -- the...
By Michael Cavna | October 19, 2009; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (42)
