Michael Cavna of the Washington Post has a lengthy-but-fascinating profile of Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson on his Comic Riffs site, for which he interviewed Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and several other people who know what they are talking about.Fascinating but lengthy. You don’t have time to […]
Each Wednesday, For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston has been posting a video podcast where she shares with her fans a little peak into her world as a cartoonist and creator of the Patterson family. Below is the latest on the topic of why Lynn decided to bring a new character into the […]
Back in March I told you Mark Buford was heading across the pond for some engagement and while there he met up with a cartoonist group called Cartoon Country. While there Mark was interviewed for their podcast. That podcast has now been posted. Enjoy.
For $.99 you can upload your face and put it into a Dilbert or Garfield cartoon that you can then send to others. From USA Today:“We like to say that we’ve always viewed Dilbert as the first social media brand,” he jokingly explains. “These strips were among the first forms of entertainment that were being […]
In the wake of nationwide municipal elections, South Africa’s Jeremy “Jerm” Nell provides a reminder that not everyone lives in a place where a smooth-running election is traditional.Which means life is getting harder for the nation’s political cartoonists. President Jacob Zuma’s threatened lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro for defamation seems to have drifted off into the […]
Animation Magazine reports that the Fox network is launching two new animated series this fall. The first is entitled “Allen Gregory” and is described as “the adventures of the world?s most celebrated seven-year-old going to school with normal kids.” The second show is an animated version of the 2004 indie film “Napoleon Dynamite.” The animated […]
Fox Entertainment has announced that Seth MacFarlane is going to resurrect the classic TV animated series The Flintstones. According to Deadline.com the series will begin production this fall with a 2013 premiere on Fox.The Flintstones will be produced jointly by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros Television. Dan Palladino (Gilmore Girls) and Kara Vallow […]
The revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger cheated on his wife 10 years ago isn’t changing production plans for the Governator animated series. From Hollywood Reporter:“It doesn’t affect this movie,” Cry Macho producer Albert Ruddy says of the unfolding Schwarzenegger scandal. “We’re shooting Aug. 24; we’re in serious preproduction now. It hasn’t affected our sales. It’s going […]
It was yesterday. It was 25 years ago. That’s “yesterday,” dammit.”The Elderberries” is one of a tiny sub-category of strips that have improved under new management. It was successful but creatively a bit nondescript until about four years ago, when creator Phil Frank entered the last stages of cancer and Corey Pandolph was called in […]
I figured it would be only a matter of time before Tundra marketing guru Bill Kellogg branched off and began representing other comic strips. The new syndicate launched Monday and is called Ink Bottle Syndicate and represents eight strips: Tundra (Chad Carpenter), That Monkey Tune (Michael Kandalaft), Sunshine State (Graham Nolan), Holy Molé (Rick Hotton), […]
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has announced he’s bring back his strip – at least as a monthly comic collection. According to Comic Book Resources, Frank took Liberty Meadows on hiatus in 2004 after issue #36. He published a single issue in 2009. Two years ago he signed the rights for the strip to Sony […]
Brian Anderson, the creator of Dog Eat Doug has announced that he’s working on the release of a novel and accompanying webcomic entitled “The Conjurers.” On his blog he writes:As most of you know, I’m hard at work on polishing up the pitch for the novel. At the same time I am also working on […]
The Adventures of Tintin is set to hit theaters this December. The 3D motion capture movie is produced by legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Posters (see below) have been released as well as the trailer. Tintin is based on the be French comic by Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907?1983). It is one of […]
Editorial cartoonists love to take a familiar symbol and adapt it to express an opinion. Weeping Statues of Liberty have become a snide inside joke about lazy, sentimental dreck, after the scores of them drawn in the wake of 9/11. Justice peeking under blindfold is another graphic cliche, while some other cartoonists don’t seem entirely […]
Kurt Westergaard is on trial in absentia in Jordan. That’s not news. What I did find interesting in this Copenhagen Post article was the admission by many in Jordan that the case is nothing more than theater. Speaking to Middle-Eastern news-site The Medial Line, Jordanian attorney Usama Beitar, himself a former member of the “God’s […]