Deadline.com is reporting that movie and TV mogal Jerry Bruckheimer is working to create a half hour live action comedy sit com based on Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits comic strip. Donald Todd, who was the co-creator, executive producer of the ABC comedy Samantha Who? is the writer-producer for this script.
Sunday night’s The Simpsons had an unusual opening. It had the normal intro with the family crashing into the living room to watch TV, but the opening extended into a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. Very much a hand bitting the hand that feeds it […]
Dog Eat Doug has been off on some fantasy excursions lately, which are fun enough to make the strip worth keeping up with, but it came back home today to its roots as a strip about a dog and a baby. And a very good home it is indeed, when simple, appealing art mixes with […]
Slash Film is reporting that a live action feature film is in the works for Bil Keane’s Family Circus. The film rights are held by 20th Century Fox and Walden Media. Deadline says Fox and Walden competed for the rights with several other studios, but beat them out with a seven figure deal against their […]
The tri-annual Festival of Cartoon Art hosted by the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Library and Museum is sold out according to this year’s organizer Jenny Robb. The festival begins this Thursday and runs through Sunday. Featured speakers this year include: Steve Breen, Brendan Burford, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Tom Gammill, Matt Groening, Bill […]
Last Sunday’s Non Sequitur that didn’t feature Mohammad was replaced in several metro newspapers including the Washington Post. The Post’s Ombudsman Andrew Alexander interviewed Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller and tries to explain why his paper opted not to run the cartoon. Still, Style editor Ned Martel said he decided to yank it, after conferring […]
I was kind of surprised that Columbus Day got so little play in the comics today. Normally, it is cause for a spate of drawings of sardonic Indians making witty New Yorkeresque observations about the new people in the neighborhood.Maybe it’s just as well.But, as today’s Frazz points out, it does put us one-up on […]
By happy circumstance, Mutts was perfectly positioned to take advantage of King Features Syndicate’s decision to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month by having all their cartoons this Sunday be pink. I love Patrick McDonnell’s Herriman-like artwork, and the fact that he refuses to employ any new technologies, which he discussed in the profile I did […]
There’s been a long and convoluted exchange over at the Daily Cartoonist — producing more heat than light, as these things tend to do — about what a political cartoon ought to be, with the impetus having been a blog posting by Daryl Cagle about how to create the kind of political cartoon that newspaper […]
I swear I’ve written that headline before. This time the cartoon was published at Eastern Michigan University and depicts several individuals in KKK garb standing around a tree with a noose hanging from a branch. The caption reads, “Honey, This is the tree where we met.” Students, particularly African American students, found the cartoon offensive. […]
Zulkiflee Anwarul Haque’s, better known as Zunar, may have the ban on his latest two books lifted. Malaysiakini.com, his publisher, has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge the ban on two of his books. The publisher maintains that the books are collections of work that has already been published. MKINI contended that […]
There was a time when “Sesame Street” was funny and exciting and as much fun for parents as it was for kids. And then, first, they decided that the exciting part made it too hard for the kids to absorb the lessons, so they slowed it down and ditched all the fast-counting sequences with the […]
A failed GOP candidate is suing nine journalists for $1 million each and has named The Journal News editorial cartoonist Matt Davies as one of the nine. The suit alleges that the nine journalists “defamed his character, ruined his reputation and caused him emotional distress.” Russell, who has run for Congress five times, including his […]
Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and the graphic novel “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” recently spoke to the 11th annual Stonewall Lecture recently spoke to the 11th annual Stonewall Lecture at Dartmouth College. The topic was creativity and community and she addressed how her work was about a community but part […]
Sunday Press Books has announced that will be offering Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland on the iPad. The series will be introduced with a free mini-book preview, Little Nemo in Christmasland.Sunday Press owner Peter Maresca sees the iPad as a viable platform to display the giants of American comics. As former creative director for […]