Matthew Inman, the creator of The Oatmeal, has received an email from a lawyer representing Funnyjunk threatening to file a federal lawsuit for defamation if Matthew doesn’t remove all mention of FunnyJunk from his website AND doesn’t pay the lawyer $20,000 by today (letter written June 2). The backstory to this bizarre twist goes back […]
The Team Cul de Sac auction came to an end last night. I can’t help but think Chris Sparks, the team organizer, is genuinely pleased with the results. Collectively the auctioned raised over $47,000 (minus fees, etc.). The most watched item was Bill Watterson’s oil painting of Petey Otterloop which sold for $13,145.00.You can view […]
The Paris Review interviewed long-time MAD Magazine writer Dick DeBartolo about his long career starting in 1962.As you watch a movie, are you keeping count of the gags and writing ideas down? Yeah, and after I see the movie, I write a whole outline of it, and then I go through it again and I […]
Malaysia cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque (AKA Zunar) says he has no intention of obeying the recent declaration by the Maylasian Election Commission banning caricatures from this year’s election.Zunar speaking to the Free Malaysia Today:“Cartoons are legal in Malaysia. Nobody said that cartoons are illegal…Who is the EC to decide whether [political cartoons] are serious or […]
Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson has created a iBook of his best 100 business cartoons and is selling it through the iTunes Book Store for $.99. The book is entitled, “The Andertoons Book of Business Cartoons.”
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) was asked to create a cartoon to celebrate the 175th anniversary of The Baltimore Sun. He’s posted his cartoon on his blog with the comment, “I choose to create something that celebrated the proud tradition of editorial cartooning at The Sun over the decades. I hope the tradition continues for another 100 […]
Just a friendly reminder to anyone interested in participating in The Cartoonist Studio’s latest contest. This first contest (a related second contest launches later this summer) kicks off on Monday the 11th for public viewing, but starting tomorrow entrants can start uploading their cartoons. This contest requires participants to publish two single panel politically themed […]
Andrews McMeel, the parent company and publishing company behind Universal Uclick, has announced that they will be releasing a paperback edition of “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson in November. The paperback set will contain four-volumes in a slip-case and contain every Calvin & Hobbes cartoon published during the 10 year run of […]
Ed Stein, who drew editorial cartoons for ever 30 years at the Rocky Mountain News before it closed in 2009, has decided to retire from editorial cartooning. He drew his last cartoon on May 31 (above). For over 10 years he drew a local comic strip called Denver Squares for the Rocky Mountain News and […]
The BBC reports that a rare 1932 Tintin comic book cover was auctioned off in Paris for a record 1.3 million Euros ($1.6 Million US).The Tintin in America cover, hand-drawn by Belgian writer and illustrator Herge, broke the record – set by the same item in 2008, when it sold for 764,000 euros. It shows […]
King Features comics editor Brendan Burford talks to editorial cartoonist and Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters about his career and family.Brendan: Do you ever sit there and take stock of all of the accolades. Does this validate your career, having been recognized by your peers and by judges? There are baseball players that […]
Jen Sorensen created a 4-page comic entitled An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance. Head over to Kaiser Health News to view the whole series.Great cartoon, Jen.
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Malaysia’s Election Commission has announced that it is banning caricatures during the next general election.From Free Malaysia Today:According to a Bernama report, Wan Ahmad said that the 2011 Sarawak state election saw “too many” examples of “inappropriate” political caricatures. “The election is a serious matter and we cannot […]
The Birmingham News, the Press-Register in Mobile, and The Huntsville Times are moving to a three-day-a-week-in-print schedule. The Press-Register is home to editorial cartoonist J.D. Crowe.J.D. writes on his blog:Through this blog, Facebook and Twitter, we’re practically mutual online stalkers already. If I’m part of the new configuration, I guarantee you, we’ll be even more […]
Starting today, you can buy five different Forever Stamps featuring Flik and Dot from “A Bug’s Life”, Mr. Incredible and Dash from “The Incredibles”, Nemo and Squirt from “Finding Nemo”, Woody, Bullseye, and Jessie from “Toy Story 2” and Wazowski and Sulley from “Monsters, Inc.” (2001).