Sad news from Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker: Ed Fisher, who drew cartoons for The New Yorker from 1951 to 2000, died the other day, at age eighty-seven. Ed, on the other hand, did?all told, he contributed over seven hundred cartoons. Bob has posted several of his favorite Ed Fisher cartoons. The […]
Universal Uclick editor Lucas Wetzel pulls a few of his favorite comics that reference the late Roger Ebert.While I could go on expressing my admiration for Roger and the joy de vivre with which he approached his life’s work, instead I’d like to pull a few classics from the GoComics vault to show how much […]
Salon looks at the reclusive nature of Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson: Some say that the “recluse” is an endangered species, but to my knowledge, there’s still one artist who is keeping the idea of the private public figure alive: Bill Watterson, writer and illustrator of the beloved comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes.” Depicting […]
King Features has posted a Question and Answer with Bill Bettwy, the creator of the new launched strip Take It From the Tinkersons.Q: Is there a character that most resembles you and your personality?Bill: Hands down, Ted. I didn?t intend for Ted to resemble me, but I have been getting that a lot from my […]
We’re well intaward season. The nominees for the Glyph Comic Award have been announced. The winner will be announced on May 17 at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia. The nominees are: Story of the year The Call, Steve Broome, writer and artist KOBK, C. J. Johnson, writer and SMACK!, artist […]
Not sure how many years Jonathan Mahood has been using his strip Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog to promote National Robotics Week, but he’s doing it again this year. The weeklong series runs April 6-14.From King Features:This time, Karl takes center stage as he and the gang eagerly participates in all the week’s fun robotic-themed festivities. […]
The Atlantic Journalism Awards has announced their finalists in the 2012 competition. In the category of editorial cartooning, the nominees are: Bruce MacKinnon (The Chronicle Herald – Halifax, NS) Michael de Adder (The Chronicle Herald – Halifax, NS) Sean Leslie Casey (Cape Breton Post – Sydney, NS)
Earlier last month, Adam Brown, animator for Comedy Central?s Ugly Americans, animated one of Bill Watterson?s Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strips with really good results. You can read about it on my earlier post, but unfortunately the video has gone “private”. The blog Geekologie found this kid’s room all Calvinized. Nicely done.But now someone took […]
From the Arizona Republic:Hamway said that since an Arizona Republic article about the looming deadline was published March 23, at least one large donation has come in, putting fundraising above the minimum goal of $75,000. Hamway said the fundraising effort also was helped by coverage of the fundraising effort in other media. Manya Long, daughter […]
King Features has launched a new strip to newspapers called Take It From The Tinkersons created by Bill Bettwy. The press release says it launched in over 50 papers. The strip is centered a family named The Tinkersons. Here’s the write up from KFS: Bill Bettwy’s Take It From The Tinkersons is a contemporary daily […]
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has been busy interviewing cartoonists of late. He just posted an interview with one of this year’s Reuben Award Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Rick Kirkman. Rick is the co-creator of the strip Baby Blues.Listen to the interview: Bob also interviewed Nate Fakes, creator of Break of Day. Nate is […]
Disney/Pixar has announced it will create a sequel to Finding Nemo called Finding Dory for a November 2015 release. Finding Dory will once again star Ellen DeGeneres. According to the LA Times, the story will set off the California coast about a year after the Finding Nemo story. If you ask me, Dory stole the […]
IDW will release a new Artist Edition collection for Jeff Smith’s Bone series. No date is set yet, but it will be 144 pages and printed at the size of Jeff’s original art (12×7). Also Jeff announced that he’s starting a webcomic set in prehistoric times called, “Tüki Save the Humans”. No launch date on […]
Comic Book Resources used Women’s History Month to highlight female creators in the industry. Creators included: Becky Cloonan, Danielle Corsetto, Joyce Farmer, Marjorie Liu, Ann Nocenti, Trina Robbins, Louise Simonson, and Noelle Stevenson.It’s an interesting series wherein the artists talk about gender roles in comics, gender gaps, and abortion, anger and Underground Comix.
Arsalan Iftikhar, a senior editor at The Islamic Monthly, opines that there are essentially five reasons why artists draw the Prophet Muhammad: The moral of the story is that people will continue to draw cartoons of our beloved Prophet in the future whether we like it or not. For these reasons, it is important for […]