Official Press Release:Dynamite Entertainment, under license from King Features Syndicate, returns Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, and The Phantom to comic books, and all under the Dynamite publishing umbrella. The Last Phantom was previously announced to ship this August with Alex Ross at the creative helm, Scott Beatty scripting and Eduardo Ferigato on art in […]
Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey is celebrating 60 years with series of events and special strips.From the press release: The world’s most recognizable Private and funny pages icon Beetle Bailey salutes 60 years of military mirth and mayhem with a seven-month long celebration honoring the comic strip’s diamond anniversary. Beginning this month, a series of Beetle […]
Joe Murray, creator of Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life and Cartoon Network’s Lazlo’s Camp has raised over $18,000 from direct funding through Kickstarter to start a new animated series called Frog in a Suit for a new website/portal he’s creating called KaboingTV.com. The site is envisioned to be for independant animation projects.Describing his project and need […]
Ted Rall, Matt Bors and Steve Cloud are leaving for Afghanistan the second week of August for one month. Rall writes: I’m leaving for Afghanistan the second week of August. I have three goals: Go to Taloqan in Takhar Province, to revisit the place where I spent much of the fall of 2001 during the […]
A 55 year-old doctor named Raymond Adamcik was arrested for allegedly groping a woman while dressed up in a Captain America costume. The story gets richer than that if you can believe it: Adamcik approached a woman while holding a burrito and began to talk dirty. He then reached his hand between her legs and […]
There’s a report from Pajiba.com that claims that a live-action Dilbert movie is in the works. In 2007, Moviehole reported that Chris Columbus (Stepmom, Mrs. Doubtfire, the two weakest Harry Potter films) had snatched up the about-to-lapse film rights to Scott Adams’ Dilbert, possibly with an eye toward directing. That was the last that the […]
I get this feeling that Hilary Price has never quite grown up, and I think that’s a very good thing. With all the celebrities and others who write children’s books these days, it’s good to know there’s someone out there who understands that there’s more to being childlike than just making up silly words and […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston’s book Farley Follows His Nose is a candidate for two Canadian literary awards. Farley Follows His Nose is a candidate for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for the most distinguished book of the year. “Distinguished” is defined as marked by conspicuous excellence and/or eminence, individually distinct […]
Paul Jon, the creator of Fort Knox has created a unique series of strips to commemorate Memorial Day and the anniversary of D-Day. Paul’s strip for Sunday depicts the Knox family reading a book with a picture of the troops landing on Omaha Beach. The scene is drawn by illustrator Norman Felchle. Then on Monday, […]
Scott Nickel has posted another in his 20 Questions series with an interview with Molly and the Bear creator and Pixar artist Bob Scott. 3. You’ve worked at Pixar for about a decade. How did that come about, and is it, in fact, the coolest job in the world? Yeah, almost 11 years. Boy, that […]
Tom Spurgeon: So with the finale for the television show Lost rapidly receding into the background, the reaction to the show suggests the question: what are the best “final episodes” in comics history? Like television, some of the best ones weren’t official finales, or didn’t quite take. With that general caveat in mind, here are […]
The AP is reporting that Mexican cartoonist Gabriel Vargas passed away yesterday at the age of 95. Gabriel was the creator of La Familia Burron – “one of the greatest representatives of the golden age of Mexican comics” and an “undeniable reference point for the nation’s popular culture” according to the The National Council of […]
Jim Meddick’s Monty is exploring one of the great rural activities, cow tipping. Cow tipping is a lot more exciting than snipe hunting, but sometimes the snipes hide under the sleeping cows as they stand in the fields and then you can combine the two activities, and that’s fun, too, as long as you watch […]
Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who was assaulted two weeks ago during a lecture on free speech, has been reinvited to speak at the same University. “The department (of philosophy) has reached a wise decision. Lars Vilks must be allowed to hold his lecture,” Uppsala University vice-chancellor Anders Hallberg said in a statement Tuesday. “Violence […]
Some unsolicited promotion for Tom Richmond: Tom has posted several original sketches of the cast of “Lost” that he’s selling off. Excellent thinking and timing, Tom – striking while the iron is hot. While you’re perusing the caricatures, read his review of the series finale. One of the better reviews out there.