From the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum:The family of the late Dick Tracy cartoonist Chester Gould has donated a substantial collection of original Dick Tracy comic strips and related materials to The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM). Gould wrote and drew Dick Tracy, one of the most popular and […]
“Well, hello everybody!”Great video of cartoonists back when they wore suits and were celebrities.
Political cartoonist and activist Aseem Trivedi says he’ll be the Aam Aadmi Party candidate for congress if the party offers him the ticket.From CNN-IBN: Riding high on its outstanding performance in Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is likely to field cartoonist-turned-activist Aseem Trivedi from Kanpur Lok Sabha constituency against Congress’ Sriprakash Jaiswal and […]
Ordinary Bill creator Will Wilson recently proposed to his long-time girlfriend in his comic strip and got it all on video as well. Spoiler alert: congratulations to both of them!
Vermont will appoint Ed Koren as their cartoon laureate on Feb 27. Ed is a long-time New Yorker cartoonist. He will succeed James Kochalka who was appointed in 2011. From Vermont Public Radio: Vermont is the only state to regularly appoint a cartoonist laureate; Alaska appointed a cartoonist laureate in 2008 but has not kept […]
Rob Rogers is first off the drawing board with this post-Super Bowl commentary, and I think it’s going to be hard to top. The flap over Coke’s commercial has pretty much shunted aside the fact that Cheerios not only brought back their interracial couple, but now with the news that the woman is pregnant. Apparently, either new […]
And speaking of the Angoulême comic festival, over 70 artists and illustrators have joined to protest one of the festival’s sponsors, SodaStream. SodaStream is a maker of a home carbonation product that makes soda, but the artists object to its “factory built in Israeli illegally occupied land in Maale Adumim” and alleged exploitation of Palestinian […]
A new Captain America Trailer aired yesterday during the Super Bowl. Looks more intense than the first.
Ecuadorian cartoonist Xavier Bonilla was censored by a media watch dog group for a cartoon he drew that the group called “harmful to President Rafael Correa”. From the Global Post: Xavier Bonilla, who produces cartoons for the El Universo newspaper, said he had been a victim an “abuse of power” following the move by the […]
Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was awarded the grand prix de la ville d’Angoulême at this year’s Angoulême International Comics Festival in France. The festival is one of the largest in the world. The prize honors an individual who has influenced the evolution of comics. The win also would make Bill president of next […]
I meant to put up a “new story” alert the other day when this arc launched at Pirate Cove, but it’s not too late to jump on board. That’s not an off-hand remark: Story arcs at Pirate Cove tend to go on for months and to become absurd and convoluted to the point where dropping in […]
Hats off to Terri Libenson for a fresh take on what is generally one of the lamest days of the year on the comics page.Granted, she’s riffing on the now-iconic movie rather than the over-promoted tradition itself, but I’m also giving her credit for an overall breakthrough: The new wrinkle for the “over-worked mom” theme […]
(Keith Knight) (Darrin Bell)Okay, gang, this isn’t about sports, though that happens to have been the venue, so, if you’re not a sports fan, stick with me.It’s about the difference between tee-heeing over some kinds of misbehavior while going apoplectic over something far more minor. Or, shall we say, the “shades of difference” involved.Here’s what […]
Thanks goes out to this week’s sponsor, Smith Micro. Smith Micro is a company with software geared towards artists. Two such products include Anime Studio and MotionArtist.Anime Studio is a great piece of software for animating your cartoon. They sent me a demo version of Anime Studio a year or so ago and I found […]
I am not particularly obsessed with age at the moment, despite having just hit the magical Sgt. Pepper milestone, which I noted the other day with some links to prufrockian thoughts of the past.Still, the issue of coming into the home stretch is there, and, while today’s Beetle Bailey made me laugh in a “there […]