From the GoComics blog:The title of the blog post is “I JUST FEEL BAD THAT OUR LAWYERS ARE GOING TO MAKE HIM TAKE IT DOWN.” Not sure how serious Universal/Watterson would be about a take down order, but my interpretation of copyright tells me this would fall under fair use.UPDATE: Now that I think about […]
Bill Day, the former editorial cartoonist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, has been picked up by the Cagle Cartoons syndicate. Bill was previously syndicated through United Features which handed over all their cartoon properties to Universal Uclick this year. Bill will do three cartoons a week.Bill Day via Cagle Cartoons
Peanuts Worldwide and Iconix has announced they’re strategically partnering with several entities to expand the Peanuts brand and products deeper into the digital market. Here are a few of the partnerships and products slated to be released: Peanuts has partnered with Capcom to release a new video game for smartphones and tablets this fall. You’ll […]
Khalid Albaih, a Romanian-born Sudanese cartoonist currently living in Qatar, makes a simple point at Cartoon Movement.Or perhaps it’s not that simple.The current famine in southern Somalia, Southern Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia seems to defy responsible coverage and that’s a good starting point:Both photojournalists and editorial cartoonists have a limited stage upon which to make […]
From Stephan’s blog in which he reveals a failed attempted to knock off Jerry Scott to open more slots on the comic page.:Jerry writes the comic strips Zits (1,600 papers) and Baby Blues (900 papers). And newspaper slots are hard to come by these days. So I devised a plan. It began with a “family […]
Last week the Southern District Court of New York ruled against heirs of Jack Kirby in their suit to reclaim copyright for many of Marvel’s best known characters. The Comics Journal has a great piece on the differences between this case and the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster cases against DC Comics:Some legal observers were expecting Marvel […]
Profiled over at the Boston Globe are KC Green, Andrew Hussie, Jeffrey Rowland, Jeph Jacques, and Richard Stevens who have all gone professional with their webcomics.Webcomics were once seen as a new path to syndication. Comic artists would post their work online, hoping to attract a large enough fan base that syndicates would take notice, […]
The Glen Rock Patch posted a profile of Hy Eisman the current cartoonist for E.C. Segar’s Popeye.But the 84-year-old Eisman – just 2 years old when Popeye the Sailor Man debuted in the King Features comic strip “Thimble Theater” in 1929 – does more than just continue to turn out the weekly strip featuring a […]
This video was posted yesterday and highlights Bill Mauldin who was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame back in 1991. I’m unsure why it was posted just now, unless the TV station is going back and highlighting notable individuals in the Walk of Fame (that said, I’m sure to be in the Walk […]
Interesting piece over on Nuvo about former editorial cartoonist and now illustrator Stacy Curtis and friend Dave Windisch who have been doing screen printing and posters printing under the business name Mile 44 since 2004 for indie bands.Mile 44, as the duo is known, began printing in Chicago in 2004. After learning the craft from […]
Derf Backderf addresses the most important question about the Borders closing: Whaaa?I don’t get it.I get the cartoon. (Though you’ll probably need to click on it to get a legible sized copy) What I don’t get is the outpouring of grief over the closing of a crappy big box retailer that had aided in the […]
Bill Amend’s The Best of FoxTrot is steeply discounted over at Amazon right now. Regularly priced at $40, it’s now priced at $16.00. At 560 pages that’s like less than $.03 a page. Amazon notes that these are bargain books and as such “are new but could include a small mark from the publisher and […]
Tom Gammill, creator of The Doozies and winner of seven golden Doozie posts another Learn to Draw video this time with Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite. The two embark on a visit to the Ernie Bushmiller Museum.Cathy’s line about the pioneering cartooning sweat drops of Bushmiller is awesome.
An editorial cartoon by Sean Casey about the attack in Norway has some upset that his attempt to depict terrorists have slandered the whole Islamic community. He says the cartoon isn’t meant to point the finger at Muslims, but specifically terrorists. “There’s a pile of frigging skulls that they’re sitting on, drinking tea and reading […]
Two comic related big screen movies squared off this weekend and came up with a tie. Cowboys & Aliens and The Smurfs both earned $36.2 million. I saw Cowboys and Aliens on Friday night and thought it was a great adventure western mashed-up with a sci-fi. I’ve never read the graphic novel, so I don’t […]