From the first “Could this be Obama’s Katrina?” to the “Now that we’ve told you night after night how bad this is, how bad do you think it is?” polls, I’ve been wondering what people expected the president to do about it, other than tell BP to clean up their mess.Now, thanks to Tim Eagan’s […]
This was the opening movie shown at the start of the 2010 Reuben Award night in Jersey City – a take on “The Godfather”.Featuring in order of appearance: Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Jeff Keane (Family Circus and NCS President), Jerry Scott (Baby Blues, Zits), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats), Mark Tatulli (Lio, Heart of […]
In the same vein as Garfield minus Garfield, Jeff Ocean has created a sample of Calvin minus Hobbes. He concludes that unlike Garfield Minus Garfield, Calvin without Hobbes is “sad.” I won?t be posting any more of these. They?re too sad. If any brave soul wants to take up the project, a la Garfield minus […]
The LA Times reports that Technicolor is making a move from just being a Hollywood service company to a content creator and has teamed up with Berkeley Breathed to create a TV series based on his book Pete & Pickles. The Times notes that children’s animation is unpredictable. Sarnoff said he was taken with Breathed’s […]
WOWIO, Inc., a website that allows users to share and use digital media content, such as eComics and eBooks announced they have acquired the webcomics community DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. Following last week’s acquisition of social networking site WEvolt, the acquisition of DrunkDuck will expand WOWIO’s existing library of content available for viewing, as well […]
“The Explainers” was (and is) a classic collection by Jules Feiffer that featured multi-panelled cartoons of suburbanites endlessly explaining themselves. There is a fair dose of that in “Between Friends” on a regular basis, except that Sandra Bell-Lundy is much more direct in letting out the hot air in all these explanations.I suspect — which […]
The Doozies creator Tom Gammill has posted another one of his videos – this time of him trying to get a seat the Reuben Awards. Video includes appearances by Jenny Robb, Cathy Guisewite, Kim Scott (Jerry’s wife), Sally Lazarus, Mell Lazarus, Jennie Schulz and Stephan Pastis.One of Tom’s best productions yet.Hilarity continues in the second […]
Anyone know why this same newspaper has shown up in so many different TV shows?
Regarding Bizarro creator Dan Piraro, Tom Heintjes writes, Creatively restive, Piraro also produces fine art, some of which uses the Catholic imagery that he was exposed to at parochial school. Yet after 17 years of deadline-mandated creativity, Piraro has refused to coast or repeat himself, and his peers in the National Cartoonists Society have acknowledged […]
Editorial cartoonists Clay Bennett (Chattanooga Times Free Press), Bill Day (United Features Syndicate) and Chan Lowe (The South Florida Sun-Sentinel) were named finalists in the the 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards – a regional journalism competition in 11 southern states. The winner in this category will be named later this summer.
This Loose Parts gag wouldn’t work if the bears were in the water helping him catch fish, or showing him how to do it better. Although there are other internship experiences that could be translated into different gags — like him coming out of the woods with a roll of toilet paper saying, “Okay, I’m […]
The Sun Sentinel’s Chan Lowe was honored in two of this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ South Florida chapter categories. Chan won first place in the editorial cartooning category and second place in the blogging category for affiliated blogs. Regarding his cartooning, the judges wrote, “Chan’s cartoons were like a seasoned prize fighter. They hit […]
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs during the All Things Digital D8 Conference. A live blog transcript published on Engadget caused a stir when within the transcript it was unclear whether Jobs had called Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore a liar and trying to get his 15 minutes of fame […]
Insipred by the Marmaduke’s jump to the big screen, last week we entertained which comic strips we would like to see make the jump. The Vancouver Sun went one step further and assigned Hollywood actors they see best playing in a Calvin and Hobbes, Hagar The Horrible, Dilbert, The Far Side, Andy Capp, or Archie. […]
Foxnews is reporting that famed Danish Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is retiring. Westergaard says he hopes his retirement might help “lower the terror threat” against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper where he has been working for the past 27 years.