Category: Cartoonists

That’s What I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout!

andertoons1 Comment

Daryl Cagle launched 200 editorial cartoon RSS feeds.

WOW!

I’d like to elaborate, but that’ pretty much says it all.

Just for fun, I checked Comics.com for feeds. Nada. Zippo. Zilch.

GoComics.com? Kinda.

At first I was sort of excited with the RSS symbol in my URL bar:

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Clicking it and adding it to my feed reader, I was still hopeful:

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But then, bitter disappointment. The actual feed content (highlighted in orange) is just text. It’s not even a link as far as I could tell. I had to click the feed’s title (underlined in blue)…

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…to get to the cartoon in my browser:

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Sigh…

Let’s compare that with Cagle’s Clay Bennett feed:

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I clicked on the 6/1 cartoon and got:

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Yep, cartoon right in the feed. As it should be. And some nice stuff at the bottom of the feed to boot.

Even better, click the cartoon or the title and you get:

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Oh yeah, that’s the stuff.

Syndicates, you’re already way behind here. Time to take a chance and get some real RSS. Trust me, you’ll be happy you did.

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SpotTube? YouSpot? SpotSpot? (Dang My Feeble Brain!)

andertoons

OK, I was gonna be done until Monday, but when something like this comes along, you have to blog about it right away!

Cartoon compatriot Mark Heath has posted the very first Spot the Frog Radio Play! Check it out below:

You also need to go buy the new Spot book, “It’s Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee.”

Toupee

Go. Now. Buy.

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FWOOSHSH SPLOSH GALOOOM FSSSH

andertoons2 Comments

Ran across The Don Martin Dictionary a while ago, and with the Mad’s Greatest Artists: The Completely Mad Don Martin on the way, I’m glad to have such a comprehensive resource at my command.

Plus it’s a heck of a lot of fun!

Some examples:

  • “SHKLIZORTCH” – Water Squirting Out Of A Telephone Handset – MAD #231, June 1982, Page 31
  • “TOOMP, FWOP, FWIFFFFFF” – Car Hitting Inflated Man,Who Bounces Into The Air Continuing To Inflate – MAD #255 June 1985 Page 27
  • “FURSHGLURK” – Yecch Monster Dropping Into Giant Toilet – MAD #164, Jan 1974, Page 32

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2007 Reubens

andertoons11 Comments

Congrats to all the winners!

Now some thoughts:

  • Bill Amend (Cartoonist of the Year) – Totally deserved it and then some. In a world of so-so stripping, Foxtrot has always been top notch.
  • Tom Richmond (Advertising Illustration) – The guy wows me in every respect: art, blogging, Batsuits, and the fact that he could break me in half.
  • Drew Dernavich (Gag Cartoons) – It was an impressive group this year. Were I Drew I’d still be dancing a jig.
  • Carla Ventresca (Greeting Cards) – As I get more and more into cards, I see more and more Carla. And now this… I’m going to sob quietly in the fetal position for a while.
  • Hilary Price (Newspaper Panels) – Hooray, hooray, HOORAY to one of the best cartoonists in the biz!

Additional thoughts:

On the NCS site “…the winners of the NCS Division Awards are boldfaced”

Winners

They added an asterisk to help out, but it still took me leaning way into my largish monitor to read the winners. How ’bout a bigger font and or/italics?

(OK, this isn’t Reubens related, but it’s on the news page. Will somebody please replace this pixelated scrawl?!)

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Also, if someone doesn’t post some new video of someone else winning the Reuben, I’m going to scream. Nothing against the Greg Evans vid, but it’s four years old; it needs some company.

And the Silver T-Square – I’m not going to comment on whether or not the McGarry boys deserve the award, but I will say that giving it to the children of a recent NCS president might appear inappropriate.

All this being said, I do sorta miss having gone this year. Carousing with Lynch, hobnobbing with gobs of cartoonists, cumberbunds… Maybe next year.

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