Posted on: May 14, 2019

 Animator vs. Cartoonist: Drawing Looney Tunes Characters From Memory.The gang tries to draw Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Marvin The Martian from memory. How well would -you- do?A BuzzFeed Video.      

 In the beginning, there was “the word.” And then Ben Franklin added cartoons to your favourite newspaper. It is 265 years ago this month that the then-loyal British citizen Franklin published an edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette with a woodcut print of a snake cut into segments with the caption, “Join or Die.” It was […]

Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.)   The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972 (Vol. 11) Paperback   Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974   30 Years Of Matt   Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1947-1949   We Are […]

The Los Angeles Times has a feature on the seven books that aren’t Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” to give to graduates.From the piece:Most college graduates weren’t even born when the last “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip was published in 1996, but it’s never too late to dive into Watterson’s magical world. 

I wish I thought Mike Thompson were kidding a little more about this.Not that it’s 100 percent accurate: So far as I know, you won’t see goats and chickens wandering around the streets in Tehran. One of the oddities of Iran is that it has modern, Western-facing cities but the people out in the country […]