Posted on: March 18, 2013

Hagar the Horrible and Raising Duncan cartoonist Chris Browne shares his cartooning tips in this video created by Ken Alvine.

Cartoon Brew has a sliver of insight into a bit of animation history. Famed animator Chuck Jones was to do a special with Walt Kelly’s Pogo. But the project went south.“How did you ever okay Chuck’s Pogo story?,” Ward Kimball asked Walt Kelly shortly after the special aired on TV. “I didn’t, for Godsake!,” Kelly […]

Last week reports gathered that Chicago Public Schools was going to pull Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis after some questioned its appropriateness for seventh-graders. According to Robot 6, the Chicago Public Schools CEO has decided that the book should remain in the schools, but not be used as material for seventh graders. After directing principals […]

A few weeks ago, I featured some papal cartoons and observed that the new pope was going to be elected by the same people who had elected the old pope (yes, yes, under the guidance of God, but the same God who had guided the election of the old pope.)And further that this isn’t a […]

The Flying McCoys call out the Flaming Eejdits. Good on yez.I can’t tell you how much I hate St. Patrick’s Day. But I can tell you that Patrick’s official color is blue, not green, and that, until fairly recent years, his feast day was kept in rather subdued terms in Ireland. They’ve since learned from the […]

The word came across on Twitter yesterday and spread from there: The Chicago Public School system was banning Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis, and had ordered all copies hunted down and confiscated.I passed an early link along to my granddaughter, a high school junior whom I have been corrupting with comics for several years now. […]

Break of Day creator Nate Fakes is gearing up to produce a 200 page graphic novel called Don Giovanni. It’s a take-off from the opera by the same name, except his story takes place in a trailer park and features a bunch of 8-year-olds.

I get press releases from Smith Micro from time to time. It seems like they’re always releasing something new every month or so. The last email is for a new product called MotionArtist. It looks like a simpler version of Adobe Flash but made specifically for those who produce comics. For those of you who’d […]

Tom the Dancing Bug, with such a complete takedown of Scalia’s comments during arguments for the Voting Rights Act case that I’ve got little to add, except that I hope we get a couple of SC resignations after the current session, or at least before we get a change in the White House.Early would be […]

I missed the announcement last December that Robert Ariail had won the Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. The National Press Foundation has posted his acceptance speech.

This year’s Harvey Awards ballot is now available to comics professionals. Ballots are due May 6th. This year’s Harvey Awards will be presented Saturday, September 7th as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con.If you’re old school, you can download the ballot and send it via the post office.

When Richard Thompson retired his award winning comic strip, Cul de Sac, last year the one hope I had was that a complete collection would be released at some point. I’m happy to learn that such a collection will be released later this year.You can pre-order now on Amazon.

Andrews McMeel has released a series of videos featuring Lincoln Peirce talking about his strip Big Nate.

Daryl Cagle coined the term “Yahtzee!” for those times when several editorial cartoonists come up with the same gag simultaneously, the most egregious example being the 30+ “Weeping Statues of Liberty” that popped up on editorial pages September 12, 2001.Those, of course, came from a lack of wit, but there are more intriguing examples, and […]