When I first heard they were doing a movie based on the beloved “Where The Wild Things Are” children’s book, I was very skeptical that it could be pulled off. The book is so short compared to the amount of material that would be needed to create a feature film. Surely certain creative license would […]
For those infrequent times where you need to mail something through the post office, you will soon be able to use stamps featuring Matt Groening’s The Simpsons. The stamps, which were designed by Matt himself, will go live next Thursday. Each year, the U.S. Postal Service receives 50,000 suggestions for stamps and only 20 of […]
Today’s Zits by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman had Jeremy posting a picture of his mom on Wikipedia under the word ‘humiliation.’ Sure enough, some Zits fans have uploaded a copy of today’s strip to the publicly editable encyclopedia – though it is flagged for deletion.
The Village Voice suspension of all syndicated comics for one quarter may be stretching into two. According to Tom Tomorrow’s blog, an alt-weekly cartoonist contacted the Village Voice regarding the freeze: I had said we would review syndicated cartoons after the first quarter, so wanted to get back to you. Sadly, the results were disappointing, […]
NRC Handelsblad reports that famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is out of hiding (but still under police protection) and has done 26 illustrations for a new book collection of columns written by a fellow Danish columnist Lars Hedegaard. Kurt says that there was “no intention to depict the so-called prophet,” but that people could always […]
» Michael Cavna talks to Scott Kurtz and Darrin Bell about Twitter and cartooning.» Garfield creator Jim Davis has a nice write-up in the Daily Record about his 30+ year career doing Garfield.» The Nevada Appeal writes about Pickles creator Brian Crane after picking up his strip received 80% of the vote in a recent […]
RingTales, the company co-founded by Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, has launched a new iPhone/iPod Touch app featuring their animated New Yorker cartoons. Unlike other cartoon iPhone apps where cartoons are viewed sequentially, The New Yorker Animated Cartoon iPhone App allows you to shake the phone to randomly show a new set of cartoon […]