Michael Cavna reports on the recent ruling in California that denies the Shuster family a stake in copyright ownership of the Superman character. On Wednesday, the perpetual fight – now waged by the descendants – got its latest crucial plot twist: A federal judge in California has ruled that Shuster’s heirs cannot reclaim copyrights to […]
Awesome news for Baby Blues fans. A 20th anniversary treasury is due out next month. The collection, entitled “BBXX” contains “personal reflections and never-before-published essays, drawings, and photographs” along with almost 800 comics from the last two decades. The feature by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s won “Best Comic Strip of the Year” by the […]
Waterman Entertainment (executive producer for Casper, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Stuart Little) has announced that it has acquired the film rights to the comic strip Healthcliff from Peter Gallagher who produces the comic strip. The strip will be a CGI/live action film.From the press release: “Their track record is impeccable. Casper, Stuart Little and Alvin […]
Adam Zyglis made good use of the binder concept.And a few others came close, but the binder meme seems to me a pretty good example of what’s wrong with this whole group-participation form of presidential campaign: A lot of piling on over something of very little significance; a lot of straining over gnats and swallowing […]
Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist David Horsey was part of a State Department sponsored exhibit in the Ukraine where famous historical editorial cartoons and some of David’s contemporary cartoons were on display. In this video, David talks about some of the enduring symbols of editorial cartooning throughout history.
Fast Company’s Matthew E. May profiles Scott McCloud and how some of his theories of comics apply to the business world. And as for the “invisible art,” we learned that the magic and mystery of comics does not live in what is drawn. Rather, it is the “gutter”–the white space between the frames–that holds the […]
CNN’s Karin Caifa talks to Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis about editorial cartooning in 2012.
As Chris Baldwin notes over at the latest Space Trawler, the two of us went down to Elmira, NY, yesterday to research a children’s story we’re working on. And he’s right that the archivist at the Chemung County Historical Society is a rare resource. Rather than just trotting out the usual pieces and telling us […]
Tom Spurgeon, the editor/writer at The Comics Reporter, has donated a sizable personal collection of 1,300 mini-comics to The Dylan Williams Collection at the The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.From the press release: As soon as The Dylan Williams Collection was announced, Spurgeon answered the call for donations. “I admired Dylan […]
The Press-Telegram profiles The Pajama Diaries creator Terri Libenson who’s strip recently replaced For Better or For Worse. Libenson says pushing the envelope is “a part of the honesty of the strip, because Jill has a relationship with her husband regardless of having kids. “But like me … she’s trying to be everything to everyone, […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted a great account of his experience having brain surgery. He’s also posted a couple of remarkable sketches. In his words: Dr. Kalhorn counted off how deep he was positioning the first wire. When it got to where it’d do the most good he’d turn on the current […]
Phil Dunlap has decided to retire his strip Ink Pen. It was launched in 2005 and even optioned for animated film in 2006. Phil will keep the strip alive on GoComics with weekly strips.Regarding the decision to end his syndication run: Yes, Ink Pen will be ending as a syndicated daily newspaper feature, for all […]
This Frank Reynolds panel from Punch is one of the most beloved classics in the medium among, of course, those who identify with the poor fellow in it. As a weekly newspaper columnist for several years and now nearly three-year daily blogger, I have no patience for the “I couldn’t think of anything” column, in […]
Today’s Google Doodle (Google logo on its homepage) pays tribute to Winsor McCay with an interactive display of art reminiscent of McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland. Today is the 107th anniversary of the birth of the iconic strip.Michael Cavna gives us details of Google’s approach to the topic of Winsor McCay and a history of […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson went under the knife last Friday to have a chip implanted in his brain to alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Friend and fellow cartoonist Nick Galifianakis was there and fed fellow friend Mike Rhode updates on the progress and condition.You can read the posts in chronological […]