Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon visits The Center for Cartoon Studies as a guest of their Industry Day. He reports his observations of the school and visit in White River Junction, Vermont.* the senior studios were fun. Every second-year student gets one, in an older building with cryptic notes about not setting foot into any room […]
Steve Greenberg is launching a new comic strip centered on Baby Boomers. The strip is called Boomerish and will debut in the April issue of “Life After 50.” Lead characters, The strip will follow Dylan and Ronette Groover as they deal with such issues as their changing bodies, their social ideals, the economy, dealing with […]
Business Week has picked up The Joy of Tech and is now running the webcomic on their website, iPad and in their weekly magazine. This is a real thrill for us, as we are big fans of the magazine and its tech coverage, and with a circulation of over 917,000, we’ll be reaching a lot […]
Here’s the run down of April Fools day related comic pranks that I’ve found so far. John Glynn announces the Calvin and Hobbes Live Action MovieThere’s a bit of Daddy?s Home in Scary Gary and a bit of Scary Gary in Daddy?s HomeMichael Cavna reports that Disney outsourced Toy Story 4 to a Taiwanese studio. […]
Washington City Paper reports the second edition of a new commuter paper is in circulation in the DC area. The paper, “Magic Bullet,” carries comics and sequential art. This issue features more than a dozen artists, so it’s lot more than “not Archie.” There’s Rafer’s own “Nightmare the Rat” strip, starring a demonic Mickey-esque rodent. […]
From Hector over at TheAnimationBlog.com:Disney/Pixar has revealed that the 2012 sequel formerly known as Monsters, Inc. 2 will be officially titled Monsters University. No word yet on whether or not Billy Crystal and John Goodman have signed on to reprise their roles, but it is expected they will be back.Hector also reveals the general plot […]
Brian Walker, comic authority and historian is releasing a new book entitled, “The Comics: The Complete Collection.” Looks like a great book. That bit of gone and long ago would not be news to Brian Walker, son of Mort Walker, the cartoonist who created “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois.” What he doesn’t know about […]
GoComics.com has announced that comics running on their Comics Sherpa comics will do an April Fools Day switcheroo in the same vein as the now infamous Great April Fools’ Day Comics Switcheroonie back in 1997. Visit the Comics Sherpa portion of their site tomorrow to see which artists switched to which strips.The Great April Fools’ […]
Interesting story out of The Washington Post about a 14 year old Brazilian boy who is a regular fixture in the Sao Paulo Journal doing editorial cartoons. At Folha de Sao Paulo, or the Sao Paulo Journal, tradition holds that politicians exist to be skewered, whether they are the regional bosses in Brazil?s outback or […]
Stan Lee has teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to create an animated TV show and comic book about the actor’s post-governor life. The animated TV show and comic book, being co-developed by no less a superhero authority than Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee (pictured, right), won’t be out until next year, but this week EW offers […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has announced the winner of the 2011 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. Diana Huh, a sophomore at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is this year’s recipient. Diana Huh, is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she studies history. Huh was chosen from over 100 […]
Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man, has inked a three-book deal with Boom! Studios and Boom! Town. The three books include a graphic novel written by Simon Max Hill entitled “Grandpa Won’t Wake Up (due out this fall)”, a sequel to his rejected New Yorker cartoons collections (first collection sold out last year), […]
Dan Perkins, best known as Tom Tomorrow, has announced that his strip is leaving Salon.com as of today where it has run since the mid-90s to run his work on the Daily Kos and also serve as that site’s Comic Editor. He notes that as the newspaper industry contracts, there hasn’t been an inverse expansion […]
Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? Daniel Leanard, from Wheaton IL, is attempting a similar thing with Charles Schulz’ Peanuts except he’s removing the fourth panel instead of removing a character.You can see the results on his Tumblr.
Pixar’s feature film “Brave” is slated for next summer release. EW.com has posted the first look at some of the concept art for the project. This is how EW describes the movie:Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen […]