Phil Dunlap has been doing little character profiles for his Ink Pen crew from time to time, and I don’t have any doubt that they are fillers, for which purpose they are better than just throwing in a lame joke, but, on the other hand, it’s hard to consider any of them a potential […]
Brad Mackay has posted what he believes is an early art contest submission by Art Spiegelman when Art was approximately 15 years old. This is a pretty great find. Recently Montreal cartoonist Rick Trembles was combing through a stack of old CARtoons magazines he nabbed from a flea market and spotted a winning submission to […]
Marvel comics artist (and Eisner Award nominated series ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’) Skottie Young is testing the waters of digital publishing. Like most internet strategies – the idea is to cut out the middleman (Apple, Amazon, etc.) and sell directly to the public. After a week of selling a digital version of his book […]
The new comic Reply All by Donna A. Lewis’ debuts in February through Washington Post Writers Group. Jewish Times profiles Donna. Enter Lizzie, the “star” of “Reply All,” a new comic strip scheduled to debut on Monday, Feb. 28, through the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate. Penned by Baltimore-born cartoonist Donna A. Lewis, “Reply All” […]
This came news to me as I was under the impression that Japan loved their anime and manga regardless of moral biases. From The Comics Journal: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s successful passage last month of legislation targeting manga, anime and video games for vaguely defined “morally offensive” imagery has been recorded in this column, as […]
Other Red Carpet is reporting that Will Smith wants to remake the musical “Annie” and feature his 10-year-old daughter in the title role.
Rob Tornoe reports that editorial cartoonist John Trever is retiring from the Albuquerque Journal after 34 years. You’ve been drawing political cartoons for the Albuquerque Journal since 1976, over 30 years. What made now the time to pull back? I guess I should feel guilty, giving up an editorial cartoonist’s position in this environment, but […]
Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was reprimanded in court for exclaiming, “He’s just a cowardly liar, a terrorist!” Westergaard was attending the trial of Mohammed Geele who was arrested for trying to break into Westergaard’s residence with an axe New Years Day. Geele told the court that he was merely trying to frighten the artist.Mr Westergaard […]
If you remember, back in October I reported that an Idaho middle-school teacher Steven Kutzner had plead guilty to possessing cartoon child porn – including images of characters from “The Simpsons.” Sentencing has been set and Kutzner will spend 15 months in prison, supervised release for three months and participate in sex offender treatment.Idaho Statesman […]
Bug is a relatively new (the archives go back to October, 2009) webstrip that is suddenly generating a lot of buzz. It’s simple and anarchic and thoughtful, which seems to be a trend in strips that generate buzz.I came across it on a list of new strips being considered for some kind of Lucite plaque, […]
The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center will host a new Herblock exhibit entitled From Crayons to Cartoons on Jan. 22. Also featured are former Ledger Independent cartoonists James Mulcahy and John Van Meter. Herb Block worked at the Chicago Daily News before going to the Washington Post in 1946. He worked at The Post under five […]
The ToonSeum is offering a very unique Valentine gift package. They’ve partnered with Church Brew Works for a night of beer tasting and drawing lessons. The more I think about it, I see the brilliance of it. It works for both sides. The men can say, “Honey, let’s take a drawing class to enrich our […]
Entertainment Weekly reports that DreamWorks has signed Robert Downey Jr to voice Mr. Peabody – the genius dog that appeared with Sherman during the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.The cartoons were created in the late 1950s and ’60s, but remained popular for decades, though they may have fallen off the radar for those under 30. The […]
I usually don’t see these types of articles during the non-presidential elections, but The Washington Scene is looking at how editorial cartoonists are caricaturing House Speaker John Boehner. Interviewed: Mike Lester, Taylor Jones, AAEC President Steve Kelley, Chris Weyant, Mike Peters, Steve Brodner and Ann Telnaes.Aside from getting their readers to recognize Boehner, many cartoonists […]
If so moved, learn more at the Journalist Assistance Fund. Sri Lankan cartoonist and political reporter Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared almost one year ago today. He was last seen leaving the Colombo offices of the political Website Lanka eNews, where he worked, late on the evening of Sunday, January 24, 2010. No one has heard from […]