Another individual has filed a suit against DreamWorks Animation alleging the studio stole their ideas for the feature film Kung Fu Panda. The new suit is by Jayme Gordon who claims he pitched the idea for a film with similar characters back when DWA CEO Jefferey Katzenberg was with Walt Disney Studios.In the suit, Gordon […]
Pretty cool. Anyone know which app he’s using?H/T: GoComics and Comics Alliance
WordPress.com received a cease and desist letter from attorney’s representing Funky Winkerbean and Crank Shaft creator Tom Batiuk demanding they remove two blogs: sonofstuckfunky.wordpress.com and stuckfunky.wordpress.com for violations of “unauthorized use of the Funky Winkerbean name, trademark, or comic strips.” The site was a daily commentary blog – similar to Comics Curmudgeon – that focused […]
Movie is due out March 11.
Sad news for book publishers. Borders was once seen as the brainier of the large chains, beginning in 1971 as a used bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. In the 1990s, that image began to fade as the chain expanded wildly and helped wipe out many mom-and-pop independent stores. Now the company is set to close […]
This year’s Glyph Comic Award nominees have been announced. Winners will announced at the 2011 Glyph Comics Awards ceremony held in conjunction with the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) on May 20.Story of the Year Afrodisiac; Jim Rugg, co-writer and artist; Brian Maruca, co-writer BB Wolf and the 3 LPs; JD Arnold, […]
A couple more milestone to report. Gary Tyrrell reports over on Fleen that Brad Guigar’s Evil, Inc is now in it’s 11th year.Richard Thompson reports that his Cul de Sac feature is seven years old now . It first launched as a weekly feature in the Washington Post on Valentines Day in 2004. The feature […]
NYT reports that Joanne Siegel has passed away at the age of 93. Joanne was a Cleveland teen during the Depression and was the model used by Joe Shuster to create the Lois Lane character.A high school girl with an ambitious nature and stars in her eyes, young Joanne, like teenagers everywhere, was seeking a […]
NPR reports that graphic novelist and The New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine created a comic to give to his wedding guest. When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors: a customized chocolate bar? A personalized mug? Then Brennan had an idea. Tomine is […]
Politifact.com decides to fact check Sunday’s Doonesbury strip that claims since 9/11 “270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.”We began by contacting Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who has drawn Doonesbury for more than four decades. He got back immediately with a summary of his methodology. “The final figure lacks precision, because it’s extrapolated,” Trudeau […]
Tom Spurgeon cites reports on rumors that Comics Comics will be taking over The Comics Journal “in some fashion” in the near future.This morning’s rumor cited here and here is that the Comics Comics team in some fashion will be taking over The Comics Journal, which would be awesome, would certainly fit the criteria for […]
Last month I wrote that Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, was going to be on Writers Talk. That program is now online. For those in the Ohio area you can see it on the big screen (your TV) on February 24 @ 4 pm. For the rest of us, we’ll have to settle for the […]
Nick Galifianakis has a new book entitled, “If You Loved Me, You’d Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You” – and as you might guess it’s about love and relationships.NPR talks to Nick about the book. Mike Rhode, Tom Toles, Richard Thompson and Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax were on hand for […]
This year Mark Anderson’s Andertoons.com turns 10. Mark started the website to post samples of his work but kept adding cartoons and features. Now it’s a leading cartoon bank with thousands of cartoons for purchase or to commission an original. Mark plans on taking his cartoons on the road this summer to various fairs and […]
A reader of the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) took issue with a story-line in Mike Peter’s Mother Goose and Grimm regarding a Chernobyl Amusement Park. The story line ran February 8 through the 12th. The reader writes: Today, in 2011, the statistics and the continued nuclear radiation poisoning from the disaster will continue to […]