In Shannon Wheeler’s cartoon, a woman who’s standing in an office doorway is addressing a man seated behind a desk that’s floating several feet in the air. Her mouth is open pretty wide, so I won’t come down too hard on anyone who submits an entry that ends with an exclamation point. I will, however,…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Moby-Dick
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at Moby Dick cartoons. For the most memorable fictional character in Western literature, there are many worthy candidates: Hamlet, Heathcliff, Huckleberry Finn, to pluck a few names from a…
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Best Seller Spotlight: Wiley Miller
Why is Wiley Miller such a big seller on CartoonStock? In part, it’s because he is a big seller everywhere — Wiley is the creator of the popular Non Sequitur comic strip, syndicated to over 800 newspapers in 20 countries. While I wouldn’t usually quote directly from Wikipedia, they’ve done a good job explaining his…
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