The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year.From Michael Cavna:The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million […]
Thomas Nast, the founding father of modern editorial cartooning, has been nominated to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, but one influential and vocal group is taking issue with the nomination. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, “an Irish-Catholic fraternal organization founded around the principles of Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity” says that Nast was a […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnson has been producing a volume of video podcasts (59 so far). It’s a trove of information for all things Lynn Johnson, her strip, and cartooning in general. If you’re in the earlier stages of a career in comics, there is a lot of good information on her […]
Rich Diesslin has kicked off his annual The Cartoon Days of Christmas for the ninth time. Everyday the site posts holiday related cartoons today through January 5th. Participating cartoonists include: Larry Miller, Ron Morgan, Sean Boley, Dale Hunt and Rich himself.
The British film archive discovered an episode of “Hungry Hobos” – an animation short by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks dated 1927. It features the Oswald character which is considered by most to be the prototype of Mickey Mouse.Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain’s biggest independent film libraries, said he […]
Nice insight into a recent cartoon by Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich over on Michael Cavna’s blog:“I’d come up with another idea,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist tells Comic Riffs not three hours after his sudden pivot. … “Thankfully, my editor didn’t think it was my best effort and told me,” […]
Cool video found by Mike Lynch of Winsor McCay screening his first animation “Gertie the Dinosaur” to his fellow cartoonists. Mike writes:What was it like when Winsor McCay screened his animated film GERTIE THE DINOSAUR for his New York Tribune cartoonist pals? Allan Holtz shares this article from the February 23, 1914 Tribune. The film […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday exhibit will be opening in the Toonseum in Pittsburgh on December 9. The exhibit brings original cartoon art all drawn for the same Sunday (April 11) in 2010. ToonSeum Executive Director Joe Wos says he had to narrow the exhibit down to comics that run locally or he thinks should […]
Congratulations to Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power of MyCage fame for getting their Santa vs Dracula graphic novel funded through Kickstarter. They raised just over $10,000 of their $9,500 goal with 242 donors.
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has written about his experience working with ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham to create a new character for his comedy routine. The new character is AJ, the son of Achmed the Dead Terrorist.Early in the summer of 2010 I received a call from some gentlemen out in LA who represented world-famous […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has kicked off their annual donation drive. All donations are tax deductible and there are other options of support such as in-kind donations.
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby.If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the Jack […]
Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) was featured on the Carson Daly show during the Carson Daly show. Here’s his clip:
Sorry, all. Have a funeral in my extended family that I am attending today.Hope you’re Thanksgiving weekend was great. I’ll be back tomorrow.UPDATE: Looks like I have a few minutes before I head out of town, so I’ve thrown a couple of stories up.
Sad news from Daryl Cagle: You?ve been with the Denver Post since 1975. What are you looking forward to most with the free time you?ve just given yourself? My wife, who is still working, asked me how I was going to spend my days. I said, ?Three words: Turner Classic Movies.? She was not amused. […]