Today is Batman Day. How or when or by whom that was declared, I don’t know, but HBO Max has something nifty to celebrate the occasion. I’m listening to it now.
Category: Cartooning
Peanuts Every Payday
$36,000 for a 1966 Peanuts Sunday original? How about $360,000? The Daily Cartoonist reports it’s the highest price paid yet.
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/09/14/signed-schulz-sunday-peanuts-sets-auction-record/
Mike “Race” Pence
The shocking, yet not surprising, stories from the final months of Trump’s term in office continue to surface.
Being able to paste in a YouTube URL and have a Colbert video appear is quite a change from 15 years ago. Back then I had analog cable TV being captured by an ATI TV Wonder card.
I edited using a very old version of Pinnacle, then had to convert to FLV, because Flash was the only available streaming video format. The process was labor intensive and extremely time consuming, and it ended in a 320×240 video that was uploaded to the site via FTP. Painful!
What hasn’t improved since then? Dealing with WordPress problems.
Try and Try and Try Again
Second New Yorker submission in a row. I’ve never even been a finalist, and I was happier after giving up. Why am I doing this to myself again?
P.S. I tried thinking up a caption about an out-of-body experience, but nothing came to me. I’m hoping somebody was more successful exploiting that angle.
Try and Try Again
It’s been a long time since I last entered a New Yorker caption contest. I won’t be surprised if the winner is a reference to coins in couch cushions.
They Got Pogo
I recently joined a Zoom call with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. They presented a virtual tour about their current exhibit on Walt Kelly’s classic Pogo comic strip, which you can now enjoy seeing here. Professional cartoonists providing commentary include Garry Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, and Bill Watterson.