Comic Riffs: The Washington Post


Posted at 10:23 AM ET, 12/03/2012

RICHARD’S POOR ALMANAC: GoComics.com to rerun Richard Thompson’s classic Post comic starting today
By Michael Cavna
GoComics.com to rerun Richard Thompson’s classic Post comic starting today.

By Michael Cavna  |  10:23 AM ET, 12/03/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Tags:  richard thompson, richard's poor alamanac, andrews mcmeel, the washington post style

Posted at 11:48 PM ET, 09/24/2012

‘MIKE DU JOUR’ DEBUTS: Mike Lester vows to ‘just be funny’
By Michael Cavna
Atlanta cartoonist Mike Lester vows to ‘just be funny’

By Michael Cavna  |  11:48 PM ET, 09/24/2012 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Tags:  mike du jour, mike lester, amy lago, alan shearer, washington post writers group

Posted at 11:40 AM ET, 03/02/2011

TOM TOLES: The Post cartoonist wins the 2011 Herblock Prize [UPDATED]
By Michael Cavna
The Herblock Prize is staying in town. A year after Politico's Matt Wuerker won the Herb Block Foundation's editorial-cartooning honor, The Washington Post's Tom Toles [right] has been picked for the prize, the foundation has announced.. Toles is the...

By Michael Cavna  |  11:40 AM ET, 03/02/2011 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  The Political Cartoon | Tags:  Ann Telnaes, Harry Katz, Herb Block Foundation, Herblock Prize, Matt Wuerker, Signe Wilkinson, The Washington Post, Tom Toles

Posted at 11:30 AM ET, 07/13/2010

CARTOON CONTEST: Today's the final day to vote for your pick
By Michael Cavna
The polling closes within hours and the outcome's still in doubt: Who will win the vote to be The Post's "America's Next Great Cartoonist"? There have been two rounds of challenges and a dozen celebrity critiquers. There have been...

By Michael Cavna  |  11:30 AM ET, 07/13/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  America's Next Great Cartoonist | Tags:  America's Next Great Cartoonist Contest by The Washington Post

Posted at 04:45 PM ET, 06/23/2010

Tony Murphy's comics-newspaper project hits pledge goal
By Michael Cavna
Tony Murphy's message to his comics donors: It's all about you! Murphy, creator of the Washington Post Writers Group-syndicated comic strip "It's All About You," wants to launch "a weekly comic-strip newspaper" called Coffee Talk. And today, Murphy announces...

By Michael Cavna  |  04:45 PM ET, 06/23/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  The Comic Strip | Tags:  It's All About You, Tony Murphy, Washington Post Writers Group

Posted at 10:45 AM ET, 06/21/2010

Defend That 'Toon: Does 'BARNEY & CLYDE' spark a billion laughs -- or bum you out?
By Michael Cavna
Here at Comic Riffs, every strip in The Post gets spotlighted for public scrutiny. So now that the Weingartens and Clark comic "BARNEY & CLYDE" has appeared on The Post's funnypages for a coupla weeks, it's time once again...

By Michael Cavna  |  10:45 AM ET, 06/21/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  Defend That 'Toon | Tags:  Barney & Clyde, Dan Weingarten, David Clark, Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Writers Group

Posted at 10:45 AM ET, 06/07/2010

POST HUNT: When a comic strip stands between you and $2K
By Michael Cavna
Gene Weingarten fairly warned us that his new strip, "Barney & Clyde," would make a conspicuous appearance at yesterday's 2010 Post Hunt in D.C. Hoo-boy, did it ever -- in large, glorious color. A prominently displayed "Barney & Clyde"...

By Michael Cavna  |  10:45 AM ET, 06/07/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  The Comic Strip, The Comic Strip | Tags:  Barney & Clyde, Dan Weingarten, David Clark, Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post Writers Group

Posted at 05:45 PM ET, 06/03/2010

WEINGARTEN: People who 'critique comic strips are anuses'
By Michael Cavna
"I have decided that people like me, who presume to critique comic strips, are anuses." Such is the self-realization -- perhaps even the tongue-in-cheek epiphany with an, um, surprise end -- of Post Magazine humor columnist Gene Weingarten. As...

By Michael Cavna  |  05:45 PM ET, 06/03/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  Interviews With Cartoonists, Interviews With Cartoonists | Tags:  Barney & Clyde, Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Writers Group

Posted at 06:10 AM ET, 03/24/2010

Post comics changes: Of Barney, Clyde & Gene (Weingarten)
By Michael Cavna
A coupla years back, I heard a rumor about my esteemed colleague Gene Weingarten -- whom I would refer to properly as The Post's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Humor Columnist, but I'm apparently legally bound to cut him a royalty check...

By Michael Cavna  |  06:10 AM ET, 03/24/2010 |  Permalink  |  Comments ( 0)
Categories:  The Comic Strip | Tags:  Amy Lago, Barney & Clyde, Dan Weingarten, David Clark, Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Writers Group