MetLife posts cartoon-filled Superbowl commercial extras
Once again Mark Anderson is point man on all things the MetLife Superbowl commercial that featured over 75 different comic strip and Saturday morning cartoon characters. MetLife has posted four extra scenes. I’ve posted one below. Head over to Mark’s blog where he’s posted the other three.
Posted on: Feb 7, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Call for papers for Comics & Medicine conference
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk [...]
Posted on: Feb 6, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Superbowl commercial brings 75+ cartoon characters together
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of Peanuts to Saturday Morning favorites. Mark Anderson broke the commercial down to a near frame-by-frame rate to catalog all of the cameos – both official and unofficial. He spotted at least one credit error and [...]
Posted on: Feb 4, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 5 Comments
Interviewed: Ann Telnaes, Warren Bernard talk Ronald Searle
Animated Editorial Cartoonist Ann Telnaes and Cartoon Historian Warren Bernard were interviewed on the Bob Edwards Show about Ronald Searle who recently passed away last month.
Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
John Lara dies at the age of 57
Cartoonist and illustrator John Lara has passed away at an early age of 57. His cartoons appeared in many Southern California papers and nationally. Away from the drawing board, he served as master of ceremonies for the Brooks Street Surfing Classic and was a guest speaker for “Let’s Hook Up,” which referred to fishing in [...]
Posted on: Jan 25, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Lynda Barry becomes Wisconsin artist in residence
From University of Wisconsin-Madison: As part of her residency, Barry will offer four free public lectures about cartooning and writing featuring renowned guests Ivan Brunetti, Ryan Knighton, and Dan Chaon, with special guest Chris Ware. A full schedule is included below. Watch for public lectures starting on February 15.
Posted on: Jan 19, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Canadian NCS chapter visits children’s hospital
Cartoonists from the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be visiting the McMaster’s Children’s Hospital next Friday to draw cartoons for the children patients. Local cartoonists participating include Chapter Chair Mike Cope, Jonathan Mahood and Patricia Storms.
Posted on: Jan 12, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Mark Anderson launches rework of Andertoons.com
Mark Anderson, creator of Andertoons, has relaunched a redesign of his cartoon commerce site. The new site boasts of a better search engine, faster load times (upwards of 600%!), larger cartoons and a cleaner interface for finding the perfect cartoon. Mark has one of the best comic commerce sites on the web. If I were [...]
Posted on: Jan 6, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Ronald Searle exhibit opens tomorrow
In light of the recent passing of Ronald Searle Gallery Nucleus (Alhambra CA) is opening a special exhibit tomorrow featuring the great British cartoonist and illustrator. Gallery Nucleus is honored to present the world-renowned cartoonist and illustrator, Ronald Searle, for a special solo exhibition. Searle has been an influential figure in the cartooning world since [...]
Posted on: Jan 6, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Counting down to Success in Cartooning seminar
Just a reminder that we’re a few weeks away from Success in the World of Comics Seminar (February 25-26) in Vegas put on by the Tundra marketing genius Bill Kellogg and creator Chad Carpenter. If you didn’t attend the first you can read my notes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. [...]
Posted on: Jan 5, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Richard Thompson on Ronald Searle influence
If you ask Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson who were some of his greatest influences, he’ll mention Ronald Searle. After the news broke of Ronald’s passing yesterday, Michael Cavna asked Richard about his influence: Searle’s style was so powerful that any other artist who mimicked its effects was pretty quickly overwhelmed by it and [...]
Posted on: Jan 4, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
Bill Gallo named Daily News Sportsman of the Year
The New York Daily News has named one of their own as their News Sportsman of the Year. Bill Gallo has worked for The Daily News sports department since 1960. He passed away this last May. Daily News’ Filip Bondy writes: It isn’t hard, really, to understand why so many people adored Bill Gallo and [...]
Posted on: Jan 3, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comic history, Comments: 2 Comments
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