The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) has announced it is transferring all its assets to the Society of Illustrators. From the press release: Commenting on the transfer of MoCCA’s assets, including its permanent art collection and the MoCCA Fest name, Society Executive Director Anelle Miller observed, “The Society of Illustrators has a long, […]
Michael Cavna talks to Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney about the three movies based on his hit books – the third book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days opens today in theaters. MC: Three films in, what?s most enjoyable and most challenging about making them now? JK: I think the most […]
Today’s Rudy Park reminds me of a guy named Bob whom I worked with, back in 1972. You have to realize that, 40 years ago, the veterans had not yet learned not to tell their stories, and both Bob and Dan, a Marine recently returned from Vietnam who was a bartender at the restaurant, would […]
Finding Nemo will be back in September and Monsters Inc. in December as Disney/Pixar re-releases the films to theaters in 3D. From Cinema Blend: When the 3D release of The Lion King ended up being a huge hit last year, Disney immediately sprung into action and announced that they would be re-releasing a number of […]
Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaqur, better known as Zunar, did not take long to voice his displeasure with the recent ruling by a Malaysian court that said his 2010 arrest for sedition was lawful, but the continued confiscation of his cartoons was not.Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has the full statement released by Zunar. The fighting words part: […]
Another great post on the art of cartooning from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo – this time on the lost art of hand lettering comics: I draw ?Tina?s Groove? with an ink brush and black india ink. I letter the word balloons with a pen nib dipped in the same ink. Hand-lettering my comic strip […]
Synchronicity happens all the time, but this … holy cannolli …This week’s arc at the Piranha Club:… and meanwhile, over at Deflocked …Here’s the breakdown – Deflocked (which often has fairly long arcs) started the ice cream truck sequence on July 16:… but the notion of an ice-cream-truck-ambulance-crossover only came up today.Meanwhile, Piranha Club, which tends […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury, which has a cast of characters number over 50, was named after and built around the character Mike Doonesbury, but this week’s story-line has some wondering if Garry is passing the title character role to Alex – Mike’s daughter. In reality, Garry tells me that the story-line isn’t meant to be an […]
I reported a month ago that Universal Uclick President Lee Salem was relinquishing his title as editor and focusing more of his time to the business side of the syndicate. Michael Cavna talks to several high profile cartoonists who have worked with Lee for their comments on his impact on their work. Cartoonists include: Bill […]
From All Things D: The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily?s plans. The move comes 18 months after the tablet newspaper?s high-profile launch, and a little more than a month after News Corp. announced plans to split itself […]
This Jim Morin panel isn’t exactly the best comic of the day. For one thing, it was the company’s COO, not CEO, who kicked off this whole kerfuffle.But it’s still about the only Chick-fil-A comic that makes a coherent point without relying either on purposefully misreading the facts or on reinforcing the initial bigotry. This […]