When I was in Algeria recently I gave an interview to the Echorouk (the Sunrise) newspaper. The interview, as it is posted in English on the Echorouk site is so crazy that I thought I shouldn’t let it stand without a response. The Echorouk is the largest newspaper in Algeria and possibly the whole Arab [...]

My friend Jeff Koterba, the brilliant cartoonist at the Omaha World-Herald, is releasing his memoir Inklings next week, and to help celebrate it’s release, he’s holding a cartoon contest.

One fun thing about being an editorial cartoonist is that I sometimes get invited to strange places as a cartoon celebrity. I just finished a week in Algiers at their second annual comics festival. Algeria is a huge country, a former socialist member of the Soviet block and a former French colony in North Africa.

I just arrived in Algiers for their Second Annual Festival International de la Bande Designee (FIBDA) - the Algerian Comic Con. I seem to have arrived at an unusual time, when their soccer team is on the verge of qualifying for the World Cup finals, for the first time in 24 years. They [...]

Here’s an update from October 4th.  If you happen to be at the Algiers Comics Festival, this is where you can see me:
Oct 13 (time TBD): TV appearance on Bonjour Algerie (morning talk show)
Oct 15 @2pm: I’ll be on a panel discussing Comics and the Cinema discussion with Etienne Schreder, and Djilali Biskri at the Esplanade [...]