Kevin Kallaugher neatly explains what’s going on. It is a riff, of course, on one of the absolute classics of The Far Side, which was followed by a second take, both of which adorned the bulletin board in my kitchen until they were quite yellow and curled, or possibly until I moved, I forget which.And […]
The inaugural Salt Lake Comic Con has set the record for the largest opening comic con in the nation with over 90,000 tickets sold for the three day event. 70-80,000 were estimated to have attended Saturday alone stretching the convention center to capacity and requiring the fire marshal to limit entry. That action barred even […]
Luann Cartoonist Greg Evans and I are roughly of an age, and there is always, at the age we are roughly of, the nagging doubt about how much the world has changed and how much is just you getting old.Some of it is the inevitable process of aging. There genuinely is a mosquito ring tone […]
Back when Ellen Degeneres was a standup, before she became a skinny white Oprah, she had a gag in her act that went, “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”It’s not just a great joke, but it’s a […]
Comic Book Resources interviews Diesel Sweeties creator R. Stevens about his strip and his latest themed book collections. This year, Stevens has teamed with Oni Press to begin releasing “Diesel Sweeties” in book form. The first volume, on sale now, is “Diesel Sweeties: I’m a Rocker, I Rock Out.” The book, to quote the description, […]
From Deadline.com: Turns out the Walt Disney Company really does own the rights to the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee, at least according to a federal judge today. U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez Thursday granted with prejudice Disney’s motion to dismiss Stan Lee Media’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit superhero copyright suit. In his 11-page order […]
Having mixed thoughts about the announcement of this new service called Oyster which hopes to do to books what Netflix did to movies – a flat monthly fee for unlimited access to a vast collection of books. As a reader, this excites me as I spend more time in books these days than I do […]
From the Huffington Post: Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” is due out in theaters in nine months, but that apparently hasn’t stopped Pixar chief John Lasseter from tinkering under the film’s hood. According to a report from Disney blog Blue Sky Disney, “Good Dinosaur” director Bob Peterson has been removed from the project. No replacement has […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced last month that he was buying the Washington Post for $250 million. He’s been making the rounds at the paper talking to staff about his plans and vision. But this caught my eye: The Bezos plan for the news organization he has agreed to buy for $250 million centers on […]
Two Batwoman authors have left DC Comics after executives denied a possible wedding between the Kathy Kane character and her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer.From the Atlantic Wire: “We’re both heartbroken over leaving, but we feel strongly that you all deserve stories that push the character and the series forward. We can’t reliably do our best work […]
Couple of quickies before we get to the hard core issue of the day:Two minds with but a single thought: This pairing ranks as one of the more odd coincidences I’ve seen on the comics page lately, since I haven’t seen anything about bananas in the news or rocketing around social media. I’m kind of […]
Back in July, editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker announced that he was voluntarily stepping away from his staff job that he’s held for the last 21 years with Florida Today. Jeff cited the need to reduce workload and spend more time working on the comic strip Dustin that he co-created with former Times-Picayune editorial cartoonist Steve […]
Mr. How-to-draw-cartoons author Christopher Hart is interviewed by Bob Andelman about his new book Manga for the Beginner Midnight Monsters: How to Draw Zombies, Vampires, and Other Delightfully Devious Characters of Japanese Comics. The video also features him demoing how to do it.
Here in my backyard I’ve watched in amazement as the first Salt Lake Comic Con was announced and a nearly daily announcement of big names in comics who were scheduled to be here. For its inaugural event, they’ve scored an impressive line-up that includes Stan Lee, William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward, Henry Winkler, Dean […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury hiatus has been extended until November. Garry cites that the demands of writing and producing his new show Alpha House has forced him to push back the return of the daily strip. The Sunday version resumes this weekend. In a letter to newspaper editors Garry writes: I have hit the wall. This […]