Received a note that the San Francisco Chronicle is moving to a full color daily comics. The paper let readers vote on which strips should run in color first. The top vote getters were: Pearls Before Swine, Doonesbury, Bizarro, Lio and Non Sequitur. I’m not sure I understand why the paper is announcing it’s moving […]
Bill Hinds, creator of “Cleats,” also has a long-running feature, “Buzz Beamer,” in SI For Kids and is half of the team that produces “Tank McNamara.” Cleats is my favorite of the three because I spent enough time coaching youth soccer, and being a sports parent in general, that there are few of his characters […]
The Omaha World-Herald announced in yesterday’s paper that they are bringing back two of the 13 dropped comics after more than 1,000 readers complained. Starting today Non Sequitur and Hagar the Horrible return to the funny pages.Regarding how the decision was made on which comics to drop, the editor wrote: I set a goal of […]
Newsarama is reporting that DC Comics has replaced their “local outside counsel with Los Angeles “Super Lawyer” Daniel Petrocelli.” Time Warner’s decision to bring on such a high-profile litigator as its new outside counsel would seem to signal that the company does not expect a settlement with the Siegel family in the foreseeable future. It’s […]
Nemi is a Norwegian cartoon by Lise Myhre that presents a younger, sometimes darker perspective than the bulk of what is on the comics page. Of course, it isn’t really on the comics page in the US. This link is to a British magazine that tends to be a little spotty in its updates. Consider […]
Shrek Forever After will open the Tribeca Film Festival in April. This will be the fourth DreamWorks Animation film featuring the world’s most famous ogre, but the first ever released in 3D. Mike Myers returns as the voice of Shrek. Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas are also coming back as the voices of […]
The Denver Post has dropped 21 comics today and picked up one. The Post picked up all of the Rocky Mountain News’ comics last year when the paper folded. After 18,000 people responded to their survey, the following comics were dropped: The Argyle Sweater Speed Bump Cornered The Flying McCoys Loose Parts Pot-Shots Prickly City […]
The Daily Plitiken printed an apology for running the Mohammad cartoon along with other Danish papers in a show of solidarity after the New Year murder attempt on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. But not all are happy with the apology for reasons you might not expect. Politiken said that it was apologising for the offence caused […]
Two years after being pulled from the South African network line-up, Jonathan Shapiro’s (“Zapiro”) satirical puppet show will finally hit the air tomorrow night. The show was set to air in 2008 and the pilot was partially funded by the SABC, but the network pulled the show before it could debut citing “sensitivity of viewers.” […]
Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder has announced that his television show based on his former comic strip will be returning to the small screen on May 2nd. His announcement was posted on his twitter account. Hey folks… Boondocks coming back May 2nd! (We swear!) Please follow @boondocksBTLG for the latest info and updates.
Mark Mayerson, noted animation historian and an instructor at Sheridan College, has written on the movie Avatar and motion capture in general.In what we would all acknowledge as typical animated films (Snow White, Toy Story), animation is production, not post-production. In films that have animated elements added (Jurassic Park), animation is done in post-production. This […]
Shortly before beginning this project, I asked a comics exec what the copyright issues might be, though I assumed it was fair use. He replied that, while it was technically a gray area, it would not be the kind of thing anyone was likely to really get upset over.Well, if I used Richard Thompson’s “Cul […]
Having been a business writer, I both laughed at and admired this “Arlo and Janis” when it ran more than a decade ago. Today, it’s even more obvious that we were cruising along on stuff that nobody could explain because they didn’t really understand it themselves. In fact, in this Frontline program, one of Bernie […]
Okay, today’s Frazz may be TOO subjective a choice. For those who have never lived in the northern reaches of civilization (as Jef Mallett and I both have), ice fishermen really do periodically float off into the bay. For some reason, ice fishing is an obsession, and they get out there as soon as the […]
It’s been a long day, most of it on generator power with no Internet connection, so I didn’t get to the funnies until about 12 hours after I normally would have. I don’t know if that makes a difference or not, but I had a couple of witty strips picked out that really told some […]