Posted on: October 31, 2013

Wired magazine has an interesting article on the limits of facial recognition and what the art of caricature could teach those trying to make computer recognition possible. Ben Austen talks to caricature artists Stephen Silver, Jason Seiler, Roger Hurtado, and Court Jones. ?I don?t care how many wrinkles there are around the eye or if […]

For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]

Last week I announced major changes for The Daily Cartoonist in the coming year. With that announcement was a mention that I’d be using Indiegogo to run my mostly-annual fund-drive. I launched that campaign today. You can head over there now to see the awesome incentives that have been provided by friends of the blog. […]

Charles Mcgrath of The New York Times profiles Art Spiegelman about his new exhibit “Art Spiegelman?s Co-Mix: A Retrospective” in the Jewish Museum in New York City. The show, ?Art Spiegelman?s Co-Mix: A Retrospective,? is actually the fourth retrospective of his work in less than a year. ?You?ve heard of the Great Depression?? Mr. Spiegelman […]

Entertainment Weekly has a fantastic cartoon by Sergio Aragones to guide readers through MAD Magazine’s history. It so detailed, they had to provide the digital equivalent of a magnifying glass. Fantastic stuff. Be sure to check out out.

Let’s start in Denmark today. Well, in Scotland. But with a Danish story.Here’s one of HJ Ford’s illustrations from Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina,” from “The Yellow Fairy Book”:  And now we’ll go to Denmark.Or, the US. But it’s imported: And that’s Wumo, a newly syndicated strip that Michael Cavna writes […]

The New Orleans Advocate has announced that it has hired editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman away from Newsday. Here’s Walt talking about his decision to return to Louisiana, where he used to work for the Times-Picayune prior to moving to New York. ?A few years ago at a Tulane art fair, I purchased a brass skeleton […]

I haven’t seen this pop up on my wall yet – mostly because I have classy friends. International Business Times touts that its popularity is on the uptick. Cool, isn’t it? This Bitstrips app is a Facebook mobile app that is lending its Facebook users a cool sketched avatar. It allows the users to turn […]

Comic Book Resources is reporting that DC Comics is leaving New York City for Burbank, California:In a letter to employees from DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson provided to CBR by DC, the executive writes, “I can confirm that plans are in the works to centralize DCE?s operations in 2015. Next week, the Exec Team will […]

The children’s book that is number one target of banning in America is going to be a feature animation film by DreamWorks Animation. Hollywood Reporter reports DreamWorks Animation has signed Rob Letterman to direct a film adaptation of the children’s book Captain Underpants. Nicholas Stoller was tapped to write the script for Captain Underpants. Rob […]

The latest X-Men movie opens May 23rd in the US.

Today we roll out the big guns, and big in a couple of ways. First of all, they are large format books, which allows you to see the artwork pretty much as the artist intended.Second, they are big guns in that we’ve gone from “Oh, this will be fun! Thanks!” stocking stuffers to serious “Oh […]

Actor Johhny Depp is slated to host a documentary about legendary artist Ralph Steadman. The film is entitled For No Good Reason.From the synopsis: Johnny Depp pays a call on his friend and hero RALPH STEADMAN and we take off on a high-spirited, lyrical, raging and soulful journey discovering the life and works of one […]

Writer, cartoonist Tim Kreider pleads to those in the creative fields to just say no to requests to give away their work for free in exchange for exposure. So I?m writing this not only in the hope that everyone will cross me off the list of writers to hit up for free content but, more […]