Posted on: December 6, 2011

They took over Halloween. Why not Christmas too?Via Robot6

Steve Meyers of Poynter is now reporting that Jeff Staher has been suspended “indefinitely” until the paper can conduct an exhaustive investigation.On a related note, Michael Cavna has talked to Robert Mankoff who is giving Jeff the benefit of the doubt.“My guess is Stahler came up with the idea completely independently,” Mankoff told Comic Riffs. […]

Indie Wire reports that a second TinTin movie is already in the works before the first has yet to open here in the U.S. It seems like the domestic success or failure of ‘Tintin,’ which doesn’t open on our shores until December 21st, isn’t even a factor at this point – they’re moving forward whether […]

Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ”Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute at […]

Eisner winner Shannon Wheeler recently took a trip to Portugal for a comic festival. He took a sketch book to record his trip that would start in New York City. His trip is being chronicled over on The Comics Journal. Day two is about his trip to the New Yorker office.

The Washintonian profiles Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten who is also co-writer of the comic strip Barney & Clyde.Weingarten may also be the best writer in American journalism. He?s the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing twice, once for the violinist story and once for a story about parents […]

Francesco Marciuliano is at his best this time of year, when his penchant for incisive bad taste becomes a delightful antidote to the cloying sentimental dreck that, really, is equally bad taste only more cynically applied.And Medium Large, his almost-always-funny blog, is currently featuring a riff on the Peanuts Christmas specials that was originally posted […]

Yesterday’s editorial cartoon by Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler has a striking similarity to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress (see both below).I asked Jeff for a response to which he’d only say, “my only explaination [sic] is that it’s a coincidence.”This is the second coincidence this year. Last March, one of his […]

CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over another. […]

Dylan Horrocks has created this faux-Tintin cover as an auction item for a crowd-sourcing effort to send freelance journalist and fellow Kiwi Jon Stevenson back to Afghanistan for another look at the situation there, where New Zealand has SAS forces stationed.Of course, it’s brilliant of him to riff on the current interest in Tintin, whose […]

One good thing about Newt Gingrich moving into the forefront of the GOP Nomination Extravaganza is that he inspires more incisive commentary.As has been noted before, others in this college of clowns have been so ridiculous that they left cartoonists with nothing to work with. Cain, Perry, Bachmann and such were like the pathetic, deluded […]

One of the problems with making “Cul de Sac” the CSOTD is that Richard Thompson can contain an entire rant within, in this case, five panels. He leaves me little upon which to fulminate.But not today.In the real world, I edit a publication for middle-school students which often contains book and movie reviews. There is […]

Sean Pitts profiles Orlando Sentinel editorial cartoonist Dana Summers about his sketch to color process .Dana also does the Bound and Gagged comic strip.

From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves:“While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the strip, […]

Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the […]