The Cartoon Movement has published a 20 page comic journalism piece by Sarah Glidden, author of “How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less.” The new piece is entitled “The Waiting Room” which looks into the lives of displaced Iraqis living in Syria, who now make up the largest urban refugee population in history.Sarah […]
John Read’s exhibit, “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages”, is heading to Boston in May. The exhibit will be free and be presented in the Boston Center for Adult Education (BCAE) beginning May 2nd. It has over 130 nationally syndicated Sunday comics that appeared in papers April 11, 2010. The exhibit will be in […]
I’ve often praised “Cul de Sac” because of Richard Thompson’s ability to recreate what it was like to be 5 years old.Let us now praise “Watch Your Head” because of Cory Thomas’s ability to recreate what it was like to be 19 years old.Most days, that makes for some funny stuff. I can look back […]
Ollie and Quentin creator Piers Baker has written a candid post about a possible future end for his creation. I am producing a really good comic here and my editor at King Features is delighted with the quality of my work but ‘Ollie and Quentin’ is not connecting with newspaper editors. My editor says there […]
Journalist Jonathan Tasini plans on filing a class action lawsuit against Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and AOL compensation for hundreds of unpaid contributors to the online publication. According to the Washington Post Tasini seeks $105 million.Tasini, in an interview, said HuffPost was engaging in breach of contract with its contributors because of an “implied […]
What a cool video. This is not the first animation of its kind, but it was a pioneering effort by Winsor McCay in 1911. The LA Times gives a bit context to how the animated film was conceived:McCay claimed that he got the idea for an animated film from flip books his son made. But […]
The upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is big news and no editorial cartoonist can avoid NOT touching on big news. So how are British editorial cartoonists approaching the topic of the big wedding?[Peter Brookes], who was last week named cartoonist of the year at the British Press Awards, admitted he had no […]
Not much to add to this Jen Sorensen cartoon. It’s not that the whole “hopey-changey” thing doesn’t seem to be working out. It’s the “let’s work together” thing that is seeming delusional. Obama is like the party to a bad marriage who hopes, if he just gives in to one more thing, it’ll all work […]
A rare Action Comics #1 featuring the first appearance of Superman has been found. It was stolen 10 years ago from the home of actor and comic book aficionado Nicolas Cage.From the Ventura County Star:It remained missing for more than 10 years until last month when a man found it in a San Fernando Valley […]
Last weekend was the 2011 MOCCA Festival in New York City. I’m going to cheat here and just link to Tom Spurgeon and Comics Beat who have posted better (and more time-consuming) write-ups, link logs and photos than I can.Looked like a great year.
The hubbub over last week’s revelation that The Village Voice asked its cartoonists to provide cartoons for “exposure” and not pay all the while running a color story on “If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t They Pay?” has caused the paper’s editor to issue as statement saying that they will now pay the contributing […]
I have a feeling this arc in Retail is going to be worth following.I sort of applied to work at Borders a little over a year ago, during the period I was out of work. I say “sort of” because I saw a poster at our local Borders saying they needed help and giving an […]
Stuart Carlson, on the new Bright Young Man of the moment.I heard Louis Josephson, CEO of Riverbend Community Mental Health in Concord, on New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” Wednesday, on the topic of cuts to mental health treatment funding. They do have the show archived, but it isn’t formatted to allow you to jump […]
It’s All About You (Tony Murphy) Watch Your Head (Cory Thomas) Candorville (Darrin Bell)
Staring on Saturday, Jonathan Mahood will be paying tribute to National Robotics Week with this comic Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog. It’s a natural fit due to the nature of the Bleeker character being a robotic dog that is also an iPod, cellphone, music player and computer.“That was a springboard,” the 42-year-old artist and writer said […]