“Arthur”: The Hollywood Hug

COMMENTS (27)

• Obvious, stiffly drawn, and not terribly funny. As usual.

  Comment by Webster — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 11:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• These cartoons are powerfully unfunny.

  Comment by Jhizara — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it just me or would these political cartoons better benefit us readers if they referenced something a little more timely? Maybe this week would have been the week to create one surrounding the WMA layoffs? Or the Jon Peters book? Or well . . . anything more relevant.

  Comment by dvelopment — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How naive, who brings a knife to a gunfight?!

  Comment by Buck Zollo — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Seriously, can your cartoonist draw any more visual interpretations of old Hollywood cliches? Did George Burns crawl out of the grave and pick up a pen?

  Comment by Disgruntled Comic Reader — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• wow, these cartoons sure are… hard-hitting.

  Comment by jane craig — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Always fun in a room full of industry people.

  Comment by Jeong — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is the guy on the left Joel Silver?

  Comment by Dex — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ok I get the Joel Silver part — is the other guy the studio head that croaked on Entourage?

  Comment by silver — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 12:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eh. I’m thinking this is an experiment that is failing. Your site is topical N. The Cartoons are not.

  Comment by All Hat No Cattle — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Not funny.

  Comment by Eh — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• These cartoons are powerfully unfunny. Why are they on your otherwise current site?

  Comment by sharp as a blade — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Its only been, what, a decade since Joel Silver’s last big franchise hit?

  Comment by bronze — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This may have been relevant in 1986. And still not funny.

  Comment by max — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• using the same title, how about a cartoon of Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto 69′ing with each other as JJ Abrams controls them with marionette strings, and an arrow pointed at him that reads “Overrated Director.”

  Comment by Captain Corndog — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This happens to be a very talented and clever graphic artist. If you people bitching about his work ever come to Chi-town, You are gonna feel pain.

  Comment by Cullan — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• INNOVATIVE! Perhaps if I toss out some other cliche’s right here and right now, we can avoid seeing them!

  1) Casting Couch
  2) Box Office Congratulatory Ads
  3) Strategically picking (or moving) an opening weekend
  4) Cast being paid a lot of money and/or back end
  5) Production shooting outside California and/or overseas
  6) Actors as Waiters
  7) Hiring your maid/dog walker/chauffer as a writer/actor/producer
  Piracy

  Finger’s crossed people …

  Comment by ClearingStuffUp — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 1:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually, it’s quite befitting for Hollywood…and the knife speaks of back-stabbing for those of us who can’t see the correlation. I think the artist does a good job at showing how cruel and impersonal a person can be with a facade of a kiss or hug of admiration. Well done.

  Comment by T-money — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 2:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• can these cartoons be any less revelatory?

  Comment by monza — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 2:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Banal. At best,

  Comment by Jerry G — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 2:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. Merciless commenters.

  Can’t disagree, though.

  Comment by ada — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 3:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The other guy is the real Ari, right? Arthur, um, you will find something you are GREAT at one day.

  Comment by Buck Zollo — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 4:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I like Captain Corndog’s idea. Can we see this please?

  Comment by michael dobrofsky — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 5:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m still laughing!

  Don’t drop your cartoonist, Nikki.

  Best comment:

  How naive, who brings a knife to a gunfight?!
  Comment by Buck Zollo — May 22, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

  Those who’re pissed off about the cartoon, still haven’t gotten the knives outta their backs.

  Comment by Winston Smith — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I would tell Arthur not to give up his day job but his day job is being John Kerry’s joke writer so I don’t know what to tell him.

  Comment by JD — Friday May 22, 2009 @ 9:44pm PDT  Reply to this post