The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The idea of some radioactive biological substance brings to mind Peter Parker who gained his super spider abilities by being bitten by a radioactive spider.Experts say that any […]
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 […]
Once again Mark Anderson is point man on all things the MetLife Superbowl commercial that featured over 75 different comic strip and Saturday morning cartoon characters. MetLife has posted four extra scenes. I’ve posted one below. Head over to Mark’s blog where he’s posted the other three.
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific […]
The Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are the animation industries highest honor and was held last Saturday. This year the Best Animated Feature went to Rango.Here are the official results:Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) – Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations […]
Some in conservatives circles are using an historical propaganda cartoon used in a Iowa classroom as rhetoric to end “the government monopoly on education” because it supports the teaching of communism. The cartoon contrasts capitalism and communism (above) and depicts individuals in capitalism as shackled and their money going to rich, fat bosses while those […]
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon to Lian Amaris. A quick tweet to Lian and a response back confirmed that that the cartoon was used without her knowledge and compensation.Mike writes:If someone puts one of my cartoons on their Facebook page […]
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing.His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House will […]
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk […]
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of Peanuts to Saturday Morning favorites. Mark Anderson broke the commercial down to a near frame-by-frame rate to catalog all of the cameos – both official and unofficial. He spotted at least one credit error and […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]
Amazing. Rich Burlew has raised nearly half of a million dollars through Kickstarter to reprint out-of-print collections of his webcomic Order of the Stick. The project has over 6000 supporters who have contributed anywhere from $10 to $5000. The fund drive will continue until February 21st.
Interesting observation by Slate who looks at the 18 times Daffy Duck gets shot in the face within the three “Hunting Trilogy” Looney Tunes shorts.Between 1951 and 1953, legendary animator Chuck Jones directed his “Hunting Trilogy,” three short Looney Tunes that are among the classics of the form. The premise of each short is simple: […]
Two weeks ago Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis launched an iPad app called Only The Pearls – a 250 best of collection with audio commentary, interactive features and 22 videos of Stephan acting like an egotistical “ass#%$*” (his description, not mine. Okay, maybe I inserted the word egotistical). There’s something troubling about the app […]
Comic historian Bob Harvey takes a look at the history of the serial comic strip Mary Worth. The version of history that inspires this diatribe claims that Martha Orr, a niece of Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Carey Orr, started the comic strip that has always been dubbed the first soap opera strip. But she didn’t […]