T Lewis and Michael Fry’s comic strip Over the Hedge has hit the 20 year mark in the funny pages. Reed Jackson, over at GoComics writes: The main source of their enjoyment is humans, whom the animals have ample time to watch and analyze from their perch in the suburban wilderness. And that’s the other […]
From the New York Times: Back in 1990, comics pretty much looked like a Y chromosome. Marvel and DC?s male superheroes still dominated; alternative comics, having emerged from the death of the old undergrounds scene, were primarily male; and it was almost newsworthy to see a woman at a convention. Today, Ms. Bechdel and Marjane […]
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose was was recently honored with the Lum And Abner Memorial Award by the National Lum and Abner Society for his contributions to rural humor through the strip. The Lum and Abner was a popular network radio comedy program that aired from 1931 to 1954. Congrats to John.
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We have a new sponsor this week. Carvtober.com is a unique project to provide easy pumpkin carving patterns for Halloween and help artists support non-profit charities at the same time. It’s quite simple, create a pattern with your line-art, register your charity and upload it to Carvtober.com. The pattern is then available for purchase. With […]
Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) and Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), along with Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants) will be presenting at a Drawn Together Fundraiser to raise money for Access Books which provides books to inner-city school libraries in the Los Angeles, CA area. From GoComics: At GoComics, […]
I mentioned Atena Farghadani back in May. She’s an Iranian activist, artist who depicted certain Iranian leaders as goats after they passed legislation restricting birth control. That led to an arrest, a hunger-strike and a heart attack. Now she’s been sentenced to 12 years for ?gathering and colluding against national security?, ?insulting members of parliament […]
The Broadway musical Fun Home, based on the graphic memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel, was nominated for 12 Tony awards and walked away with the big prize of Best Musical as well as Best Lead Actor, Best Direction, Best Book and Best Original Score. I’m not sure how much involvement Alison had […]
Opening in theaters on November 25, 2015.
I’ve seen Mark present a couple of times now. He’s both funny and informative.
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Brian Fies, Eisner award winner for his amazing graphic novel “Mom’s Cancer,” recently finished up his latest foray into the comics world with “The Last Mechanical Monster.” It’s 170 pages […]
We’re down to the last six days of the Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning Indiegogo campaign and Anne could use your help. The festival is a 3 day festival in (you guessed it) Kenosha WI. Those three days are packed with presentations, workshops, comic art exhibits, and panel discussions by some really great cartoonists. Putting on […]
Matt Bors explains changes are afoot at The Nib, which in the last couple of years has become a notable place the web for comics. But a daily lineup was in many ways a very traditional approach to publishing. And a traditional approach to publishing has never been Medium?s thing. So we?re making changes to […]
Outgoing National Cartoonist Society President Tom Richmond explains the difference between the new Medal of Honor and the Caniff award – both are lifetime achievement awards. At issue is the Caniff is the only lifetime achievement award, but if the cartoonist has already won a Reuben, the Caniff is not a possibility. What to do? […]
Brian Karem, the Executive Editor at The Sentinel Newspapers, has issued an apology and statement to the cartoonist’s whose works William Charles copied, manipulated and signed off as his own. But the troubling line in the statement was that the paper will continue to use cartoons by William Charles in the future. Here’s the full […]