Posted on: January 8, 2014

Funny video snippet from For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston during a 1995 Festival of Cartoon Art talk. The question she tries to answer in 2 minutes is if comics are art.

Proving again why some celebrities should have to take classes and be licensed to have a Twitter account, Shia LaBeouf tweeted a photo of his next project entitled “Daniel Boring” with the hashtag “#original”. What might have been a really, really, really bad attempt at humor is blowing up (again) because “Daniel Boring” and the […]

I don’t know what to call this Zach Weinersmith strip (of which this is only the first panel), because it looks like Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip but it’s over at Matt Bors’ The Nib site, and there’s a different strip up today at SMBC. So I guess it’s an exclusive for the […]

Graham Nolan, who has been the artist behind Rex Morgan MD for 14 years has stepped away from the strip to concentrate on other projects and has passed the duties to Terry Beatty. Terry has been the artist for King Feature’s The Phantom since January of 2012 and he’ll continue to draw the iconic feature.Terry’s […]

What a great tattoo by Russian tattoo artist Alina Fokina.

Lego has produced a Lego set replicating The Simpsons home. It’s 2500+ pieces and features the Simpson family and Ned Flanders.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has been invited to give a “last lecture” at Stanford at the end of this month. It won’t be Garry’s last speaking engagement ever. The annual lecture is a tribute to Stanford Law School Professor Harry Rathbun who gave a yearly “last lecture” for two nearly decades. Garry’s speech is entitled, […]

Entertaining five minute piece where Bizarro creator Dan Piraro recounts the process of creating a comic in the pre-digital era.

 First, the weather:I would note that neither Rick Kirkman nor Jerry Scott live in a part of the country that actually sees much of what I would call “cold weather.” We’ve been grazing 20 below (Note to overseas readers: that’s F) this past week, so today’s Baby Blues is a nice bit of timing.On one […]

From the LA Times: DreamWorks Animation SKG is premiering its first computer tablet, one that will teach kids how to be their own animators. The Glendale-based creator of the “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” movies has partnered with El Segundo-based Fuhu Inc. to create DreamTab, billed as a state-of-the-the art tablet designed for kids. […]

The New York Times reports that Colleen LaRose, AKA Jihad Jane, who plotted to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, has been sentenced to 10 years. The woman, Colleen R. LaRose, had faced the possibility of life in prison, but Judge Petrese B. Tucker accepted a government request to reduce the sentence, because of her cooperation […]

Great news from Comics Alliance: Rocky and Bullwinkle have had a few comics series to their names over the past few decades (often with the two characters? names transposed in the title), from publishers including Dell, Gold Key, Charlton and Marvel. But never before have the characters gotten a series with the creative pedigree of […]

I just looked at the list of top grossing movies in 2013. Interestingly five of the ten have some sort of connection to comics, graphic novels, animation or comic books. Rank Title 2013 Gross 1 Iron Man 3 $408,992,272 2 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $400,088,390 3 Despicable Me $367,860,095 4 Man of Steel $291,045,518 […]

Matt Bors, who edits The Nib, over on Medium, has announced a new line up of regular cartoonists for 2014. Cartoonists include: Liza Donnelly, Rich Stevens, Ruben Bolling, Emily Flake, Brian McFadden, Zach Weiner, J.J. McCullough, Tom Tomorrow, Jen Sorensen, Scott Bateman, Erika Moen, Ryan Pequin, Ted Rall and Shannon Wheeler.And wait – there’s more… […]

A near 30 minute interview with Michael Ramirez on his conservatism and cartooning.