Category Archives: Cartooning & comics

Cartoon: The Minimum Wage Versus The Earned Income Tax Credit

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Ampersand

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like | 28 Comments

Email From A “How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil” Reader

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Ampersand

After Emerald City Comic-Con, I received this email from Kelley, who bought both Hereville and How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil from me at ECCC. This is the kind of email that really makes a cartoonist’s day, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics | 7 Comments

Follow-up: Orson Scott Card “Superman” story put on indefinite hold

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Ampersand

Last month, I posted about the controversy over science fiction writer (and member of NOM board of directors) Orson Scott Card being commissioned to write a couple of Superman stories for DC Comics. The cartoonist slated to draw the stories, … Continue reading →

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I’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ampersand

I’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend, sharing a table with autobio cartoonist Becky Hawkins and her shoulder angel. We’ll be at table R-06 in Artist’s Alley; if you’re in Seattle, please come and say hi.

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Why I Oppose The Petition To Have Orson Scott Card Canned By DC Comics

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Ampersand

So DC comics has hired Orson Scott Card, a famous sci-fi author, to write a couple of issues of Superman. Orson Scott Card is also an activist who has said that “gay rights is a collective delusion,” and has called … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues | 26 Comments

Cartoon: Copyright Vs. Shakespeare

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Ampersand

This cartoon was inspired by a Huffington Post article by Jennifer Jenkins, in which she quoted Judge Richard Posner: What happens if these underlying sources are copyrighted? As Judge Richard Posner pointed out, “Romeo and Juliet itself would have infringed … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc. | 19 Comments

Some Things I’ve Read Or Seen Lately

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Ampersand

Django Unchained If the idea of an action movie featuring a former slave bloodily blowing away dozens of white slavers appeals to you, then this movie won’t disappoint. I loved it. It was extremely well-done popcorn, well-filmed and well-acted, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics I Like, Popular (and unpopular) culture | 9 Comments

Barry Interviewed on KBOO Radio Today

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Ampersand

[Updated: Time is 11:30am, not 11am. I'll update the post with a link to the archive once I've got it.] Me and cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee will be interviewed on KBOO at 11:30am pacific time today. We’ll be talking about … Continue reading →

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Publisher’s Weekly on Hereville: “one of the most original and comically endearing heroines to come down the pike in a long time.”

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Ampersand

Publisher’s Weekly has posted their starred review of Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. (Note: some spoilers ahead, although not more than you’d get from reading the back cover.) Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg is as disheveled, prickly, competitive, and impulsive as … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Hereville | 4 Comments