The LA Times interviews Joe Sacco on his latest book “Footnotes in Gaza” Joe is credited as inventing the genre of cartoonist-correspondent. In this book he investigates the massacre of 275 Palestinians in 1956 by Israel during the Suez Crisis. All the ingredients were present for a violent denouement. It came, according to a United […]
CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port their textbooks to upcoming iPad. Announced on Wednesday, the agreements were made with ScrollMotion, a company that develops the iPhone e-reader app Iceberg Reader and works with publishers to digitize their books for the mobile […]
Animated news reports that last weekend Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time. It has taken in $601 million to Titanic’s $600 million in domestic receipts. Titanic is still #1 when adjusted for inflation, but Avatar’s forecasted take-in is between $650 million to $700 million. When including Worldwide sales, the […]
Delta College president Jean Goodnow has apologized to the for the hurt and disappointment caused by a cartoon that ran in the campus newspaper which painted the city of Saginaw MI as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon has prompted outrage from several community leaders and prompted a community forum that included the […]
I reported earlier that Up was nominated for Best Picture – something rarely done for an animated film. I briefly mentioned it was also nominated in the Animated Feature Film category. What I did not mentioned was the other contenders which include: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of […]
Chris Lamb author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States” will be the guest speaker to open a new editorial cartooning exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. The exhibit explores “the significance and impact of political caricature by comparing images […]
Tom Racine interviews Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues in his latest podcast. Topics include “working with his old friend and colleague Jerry Scott, and their interesting and frustrating journey into television animation!”
The Chicago Tribune is responding to reader complaints about the illegibility of some if its comics by increasing the size it runs several of those comics. Two features, The Argyle Sweater and Bliss will be enlarged by 15% and Baby Blues, Blondie, Cathy, Classic Peanuts, Dilbert, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse, Frazz, Hagar the […]
Penny Arcade webcomic creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik and business partner Robert Khoo have been honored with the Ambassador Award in the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. The award recognizes individuals who have “helped the game industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better game community from within, or by reaching […]
Glowing praise from Universal Uclick’s John Glynn to Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller who celebrates 10 years in syndication with Universal. Wow. 700 papers, multiple books, best-selling calendars and critically lauded graphic novels later … Wiley remains on the top of the game. A master illustrator whose line work is nonpareil and whose writing can […]
Planet Pixar reports that Pixar’s “Up” has been nominated for Best Picture – only the second time an animated feature has been such nominated. The Pixar film is pitted against “Avatar”, “The Blind Side,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglorious Basterds,” “Precious” and “Up in the Air.” “Up” has also been nominated for […]
Former Republican Eagle editorial cartoonist and Red Wing MN salesman Craig Livingstone has announced that he’s running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate. Livingstone said he would focus on bringing jobs and commerce to the district and the state. The 58-year-old also said he would work to rein in government so it keeps pace […]
Eddie Pitman has launched a webcomic graphic novel called Red’s Planet. I knew about the launch, but admit that I dropped the ball on any sort of deserving mention until Tom Richmond posted this review: Eddie may have a long list of accomplishments but his first love has always been comics, and when he started […]
Talk about drawing under pressure.Hat tip to Mike Lynch and Mark Anderson
Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli scores an email interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Readers became friends with your characters, so understandably, they grieved — and are still grieving — when the strip ended. What would you like to tell them? This isn’t as hard to understand as people try to make it. […]