Posted on: August 14, 2014

Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price posts a few photos and impressions after a visit with legendary cartoonist Mort Walker’s studio?

The link of the day goes to Charles Apple of the Los Angeles Register who created “A quick illustrated look at the history of classic newspaper comic strips“. The graphic above is a small piece of it. The timeline starts in 1895 with The Yellow Kid and continues to 1997 with the launch of Zits. […]

From the Variety: The project has been in the works for several months with Fleischer Studios, owner of the Betty Boop charater, partnering with Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic ? which performed the animation for ?The Lego Movie? ? on a music-driven hybrid animated comedy. Producers are Zareh Nalbandian and Jason Lust from Animal Logic […]

Former Journal Gazette (Ft. Wayne, IN) editorial cartoonist Dan Lynch has passed away at the age of 67. According to his paper, he suffered a stroke in 2001 that took away his ability to draw and write. He would have been about 53 at the time.From the Journal Gazette:?Dan had (what I thought was) a […]

A lot of tributes have been posted regarding Robin Williams. I found this one of Robin presenting an Oscar to legendary animator Walter Lantz.

Most staff editorial cartoonists churn out several editorial cartoons a week. Depending on the paper, they might have other tasks – draw/judge a caption contest, produce an animation, community speaking engagements, graphic journalism, etc. It’s always interesting to see the unique ways the paper uses the cartoonist outside of the normal 5 cartoons a week.The […]

I hadn’t heard of the film until this morning, but the imagery and style of the animation has me intrigued to seer he movie.

This weekend box office numbers are in and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles knocked out Guardians of the Galaxy for the top grossing film (domestically $65 million). That was good enough for producer Michael Bay who announced he’ll make a sequel for a 2016 release date according to Hollywood reporter.From Hollywood reporter: Heading into the weekend, […]

Interesting post by Daryl Cagle wherein he essentially draws the same cartoon twice – once during the Israeli blockade of Gaza (2010) and recently regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict. Only subtle changes were made in the cartoon depicting Israel, but the latter one is getting much more attention:Here’s the one drawn a few years ago: And […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers is taking some heat from Jewish groups around the US for a cartoon he drew depicting Gaza in a jail, surrounded by missiles and Israeli soldiers with one of the soldiers asking “Why do they hate us so much.”Andrew Kidd, editorial page coordinator for The Oakland Press wraps up […]

LAST night was the final day of the Stephan Pastis, Bill Watterson Pearls Before Swine strips auction. The final numbers are pleasantly high. Combined the three strips raised $74,000 for Parkinson’s Disease research.Here’s the final numbers for each strip:$35,850 $21,510 $16,730 A big thanks to Bill, Stephan, Chris Sparks and all the behind the scenes […]

Salt Lake Comic Con organizers essentially shrugged off the cease and desist letter from San Diego Comic-Con and so SDCC has filed a suit against the fledgling comic con. At issue is the use of the phrase “comic con” with no hyphen. SDCC owns the trademark for “comic-con” and believes Salt Lake Comic Con is […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in San Francisco October 9–11. The event is being called “Satire Fest” – using the same acronym as San Francisco. For those interested in attending (or won’t miss it for the world), the program line-up has been posted. Subjects hit on a variety of […]

The three Pearls Before Swine strips that ran earlier in June that set off an internet wide speculation whether famed Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was contributing artwork (he was!) were auctioned off last night. The combined value for all three strips was $41,000. Below is the break down of each strip.$11k $19k $11k […]

From the One Million Moms 1MM will defend our Savior because He is Holy! Adult Swim is obviously not a family network, and this program is set to air later in the evening when children should be asleep, but that is no excuse. Adult Swim has crossed the line by belittling the Christian religion with […]