Norm Feuti, creator of the comic Retail and the webcomic Gil has announced that his Gil comic has been picked up by King Features Syndicate for a launch in January 2012. You may remember Gil was launched as a webcomic back in 2008 about a little boy from a broken family. It was a bit […]
If you’re near Savannah Georgia on November 12th, be sure to plan on attending the SCAD/MAD public panel. Michael Jantze, The Norm creator and Savannah College of Art Design instructor, has announced that the Southeastern chapter of the National Cartoonist Society and SCAD are hosting a public panel of famed MAD cartoonists Sergio Aragones, Paul […]
It was pointed out to me that I’ve featured a lot of political cartoons lately. Well, the blog is about what comics and cartoons have struck me, and I guess I’ve been struck a lot by the political situation lately: The economy, of course, and also the nascent presidential campaign.And in particular the whole thing […]
Mike Smith tells me that he’s been rehired as a contract employee at the Las Vegas Sun. Last week he was one of 12 individuals let go from the paper in a cost reduction effort. He’s been their editorial cartoonist since 1983.
I’m not sure what happened in Connecticut that spurred Matt Davies to draw this cartoon, but I’m not going to Google for it because it really doesn’t matter. My understanding is that most states, and the FBI, are in a situation where their labs are simply not equipped to handle the flow of evidence. Procedures […]
Poor Cory. Got distracted by a long-distance relationship and blew his scholarship.Watch Your Head is a little like Theater Lab, in that you get to see things you wouldn’t see in the main stage productions and, however unconventional they may occasionally seem, they’re always interesting and worth checking out.Cory Thomas is willing to try things […]
College students with an interest and passion for cartooning please take note. The Jay Kennedy Scholarship application deadline is December 15. The annual Jay Kennedy Scholarship is awarded to a Junior or Senior enrolled in a 4-year college in North America who demonstrates talent and ambition in cartooning. The student doesn’t need to be an […]
The Gothamist reports that Abstract Sunday cartoonist Christoph Niemann will attempt to live-draw his first marathon. From the Gothamist: “It’s either the smartest or the most idiotic idea ever,” laughs Niemann. He wanted to tell a personal story-“but I realized I’m running out of stories, because my life isn’t that interesting.” So he signed up […]
I think I’m prepared to risk $200 on the theory that the universe is indeed undergoing some kind of fundamental shift when xkcd and I are on the same page on an issue of science, since I almost never understand the geeky math/science gags in this strip.I don’t understand science much beyond the general philosophical […]
A good read in the Washington Post about an illustrator legend:Sendak feels old, but happy, relieved to have escaped youth and all its worries. After the death of his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, and after triple bypass surgery, he continues to compose daily and is busy with a project about noses, the bigger the better. […]
As reported earlier, Forbes magazine will be printing a 60 page graphic novel detailing Steve Job’s introduction to Zen and its influence on his life and work at Apple. They’ve posted four more pages. Here’s their description of what was posted:The action takes place in the mid-1980s, after Steve left Apple and went on to […]
Pickles creator Brian Crane was featured in BYU Magazine. The site appears to be down for the moment, but luckily YouTube isn’t. Here’s a video “The Art of Making Pickles” which includes some very early versions of his characters.
The ToonSeum will open a new exhibit next Friday called “Overture: Looney Tunes Behind the Scenes” which will feature original art, character designs, model sheets, advertising artwork, animation pencil art, and comic book art of several headlining Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite […]
Matt Bors points out the critical role of empty rhetoric in the presidential race.”Creating jobs” is a nice topic because, not only do we have a lot of people out of work, and a lot of people working at jobs that don’t quite pay their bills, but we seem to have come to an agreement […]
Jeff Sonderman reports over on Poynter that the Wall Street Journal launched a Facebook app to allow “friends” to personalize news that show up on their wall. Jeff points out three interesting things: Facebook users don’t click on links that go to WSJ – everything stays in Facebook. WSJ’s app uses ads and allows users […]