Saturday, March 30, 2013

Tony Hendra's "The Final Edition"

Steven Heller in The Atlantic.


Comedy vet Tony Hendra's latest venture, The Final Edition, like its competitor The Onion, parodies newsgatherers and world events to make very-real points.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Great 1978 New York Times Parody

From The New York Times archives.


The modern standard for fake news was set in October 1978, with the publication of the one and only issue of Not The New York Times. It was a pitch-perfect replica, spiritually and physically. At that point, the actual newspaper had not been published for two months because of a strike, and the Internet did not yet exist.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

I Wish I'd Drawn...(23)

... this wonderful cartoon by Michael de Adder.


Michael is also a finalist in the editorial cartoon category for the 67th Annual NCS Reuben Awards.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Dave Gibbons 'Whaat' art challenges Lichtenstein's dubious 'legacy'

John Freeman from Down the Tubes.

"Whatt" by Dave Gibbons, after Irv Norvick

Watchmen artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons was interviewed on a recent BBC TV documentary about the Pop Art painting 'WHAAM!' by Roy Lichtenstein, which is currently on show in a major retrospective at Tate Modern, London.

Gibbons was probably the only dissenting voice in the documentary, critical of Lichtenstein's appropriation of comic art In some of his 1960s work - and has now created a piece of art honouring the original comic panel by American artist Irv Norvick that inspired 'WHAAM'.

Monday, March 25, 2013