Alan Gardner

Another character from the Marvel Universe is hitting the big screen.

Mark Buford, creator of Scary Gary, will be in the UK next week and while in Brighton he’ll be visiting with a cartoonists group called Cartoon County. They’ll record the visit in their podcast. I’m not 100%, but mindlessones.com appears to be where they post their podcasts.Enjoy the trip, Mark. Remember to drive on the […]

I mentioned this earlier this week, the comic strip Zits is in teen texting and driving story-line this week. The story I referenced ran in USAToday, but it’s popping up in several media outlets nationwide. Here’s a news report with telephone interviews from Zits creators Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott about the story-line.

Mike Lynch reports that a new Jerry Robinson documentary is in the works.

Charles Brubaker found this 4 minute slice of a Jim Henson film of The Wizard of Id.

The official trailer of the new “Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown” film is now available. I wrote about this back in February and how the Schulz family worked hard to keep this film true to the other Charlie Brown movies despite not having Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez.Here’s the trailer.

I guess after spending $65 million, the pressure is on to keep the showing going – or in this case – just get the show opened. But as Michael Cavna reports a fifth performer has been reported. This time it’s T.V. Carpio who was injured in a battle scene. She’s out for two weeks.

The Syracuse New Times has lengthy piece on Dan Reynolds, his comics, and his growing involvement in his community.While he’s nationally known and has his share of followers in Central New York, many of those followers don’t realize he lives among them. “I’m in a weird situation,” he says. “I do my work here locally […]

Universal Uclick has announced that it has added Politico’s editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker to their list of syndicated editorial cartoonists. Matt was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 and 2010. He’s also won the Herblock Prize and the Berryman Award. “Matt Wuerker is a standout among the high-profile political cartoonists working today,” said […]

Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher was invited to give a TED Talk at the TEDx Warwick conference at Warwick University in the UK. He choose to speak on “The Magic and Power of Caricature.” His talk is now available. See below:You can keep up with KAL (who usually has several things going on) on his blog.

Bob Andelman, AKA Mr. Media has a great four part interview with Hagar the Horrible cartoonist Chris Browne. Here are the four parts nicely embedded.

A UK man is claiming that the movie Cars is based on a screenplay and treatment he sent to various studios, including Disney.Jake Mandeville-Anthony filed the claim this week in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, he created a three-part screenplay titled “Cookie & Co.,” about the true-life adventure race-car driver Michael Owen Perkins, […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists is reporting that six Libyan journalists are missing after three spoke out against Moammar Gaddafi. One of the journalists is editorial cartoonist Mohamed al-Amin. At least six local journalists who spoke critically of government policies are also missing, although there is wide speculation that they are in the custody of […]

Chris Onstad’s webcomic Achewood is going on hiatus – at least temporarily. Chris outlines his plans on a temporary blog after the news swamped his servers.On why he’s putting it on the backburner:Another nagging idea which slowly grew from a whorl in the tub to a Pacific gyre was that, as I wrote piece after […]

The Dueling Banjo blog showcasing various illustrators drawing on the theme of “banjo playing pigs” will quickly become an exhibit. The exhibit will open at on April 1 and run through April 29 at the Terra Nova Gallery in Provo Utah. If you’ve participated on the blog visit the announcement or contact Stacy Curtis or […]