With the release of the “Monsters Inc” prequel, “Monsters University” next summer, Disney/Pixar has rolled out an official Monsters University website that has all the typical content of a real university: news, a store, information for students, faculty, admission, campus life, etc.Monsters Inc. is one of my favorite Pixar films and I’m looking forward to […]
South Jersey Times profiles Lio creator Mark Tatulli and his upcoming book, “Lio: There’s a Monster in My Socks” “I actually created Lio for adults because I knew there weren’t that many kids reading the newspaper anymore, so I wrote it as a throwback for our generation,” he said. “But then I found out that […]
The Star-Ledger profiles Hy Eisman, cartoonist for both The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye (Sundays). Despite penning two of the most famous comic strips in history, the cartoonist lives in relative anonymity. A neighbor who had done work on Eisman’s house discovered, to his surprise, the cartoonist’s name on the wall of the Popeye museum in […]
One of the attendees of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was Mike Cope who has uploaded 240 photos he took of the event. It?s worth a gander and a mental note to make sure you attend the next one. By the reports I’ve heard from those who went, it was a great event.
An Afghan cleric has offered $300,000 for anyone who kills the producer of the anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims,? that has angerd the Muslim word and another $100,000 to the person who kills the French cartoonist who drew caricatures of the prophet Mohammed that recently appeared in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. I have yet […]
Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of This Modern World is alerting fans and readers that the Village Voice is no longer running his cartoon. In a blog post he explains that the six month suspension of cartoons in the chain’s newspapers is now in its fourth year and had it not […]
Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was recently arrested and released for sedition for drawing cartoons “insulting” Indian national symbols and emblems, has agreed to be a contestant on an Indian reality TV show called Bigg Boss. The show, much like American show Big Brother where in contestants live together in a secluded home and then […]
Michael Cavna talks to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis regarding his strip’s success and the state of comic strips.Stephan: ?We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats,“ continues Pastis, bemoaning the state of the industry. ”Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.”
Voice of America reports on the shift in editorial cartooning. And by shift I mean a future with no staff jobs.
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial cartoonist Frank Cammuso was one of the 115 employees told they will no longer have a job with the paper after January 31 when the paper drops to a three-time a week printing schedule on February 1. Frank has been with the paper for 23 years. He was gracious enough to answer […]
Interesting story from the Deutsche Welle about how the Belgium government is working to promote comics. The country was a comic powerhouse decades ago spawning notable cartoons like Tintin, The Smurfs, and Spirou. Today, most of the big Belgian comic book publishing houses have been bought up by multinational companies. And the country’s comic strip […]
J.D. Crowe, the editorial cartoonist for the Mobile Press-Register (AL), has a new job. Yesterday the The Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, The Huntsville Times, The Mississippi Press dropped to a three times a week printing schedule. Luckily J.D. will be able to continue drawing political cartoons, but his scope has changed a bit as he […]
Callan Berry, a student at the University of Montana, is “drawing fire” according to a report by the local NBC station. The cartoon points out the irony of mandatory sexual assault prevention classes required of all students.Callen says: “I’m a satirical artist. My point was to satirize the feeling on campus towards PETSA… which is […]
Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry and former Dilbert Head of Licensing Jeanette Smith will be teaching an online course on creating great characters for comics, novels, or animation. The course, entitled “Building Character: How to Cash In On Your Characters Without Losing Your Soul” is divided into three 2-hour classes. The course begins October […]
On the Facetrack creator Bill Holbrook has released a music video featuring his character Dethany, the Corporate Goth. Bill wrote the lyrics where were set to music by Dave Ridarick, Susan Holbrook Ridarick. Performing the song are the members of the band Ol Blue (Stephen Roy Carlisle, John Johnson, David & Susan Ridarick and Andy […]