Alan Gardner

Very cool, rare look inside the studio.

Fun fan made short by Disney animator Robb Pratt.Only wish there was more.

Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man, responds to the sketch-comedy show “Portlandia” – a parody of the people of Portland, OR on the New Yorker’s Cartoon Bank Blog. Shannon currently lives in Portland.My barista is ignoring me. He has his reasons. He wants me to see that his service industry job is beneath […]

Perhaps not as dangerous as going to Iraq, the effort is no less important. Ten members of the National Cartoonists Society will be heading to San Antonio, TX the first week of March to draw cartoons for soldiers and their families at Brooke Army Medical Center, the Audie Murphy VA Hospital and The Center for […]

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is running an exhibit of Berkeley Breathed’s work entitled “From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed.” Along with the exhibit, the museum and IDW (who published the Bloom County: The Complete Collection) will be printing a limited edition, 96-page catalog featuring original artwork from Bloom […]

Two stories of interest. The LA Times is reporting that a MIT economist and presidential advisor Jonathan Gruber is helping create a graphic novel to better explain the new healthcare act passed by Congress and the President last year. It’s due out in September.And secondly, if you’re drawing abilities top out at stick figures, you […]

Chad Carpenter, the creator of Tundra sent this report to me. It was first posted on his Facebook fan club page. I first saw Tundra when my local paper The Standard Examiner bumped Bound and Gagged to make space. I’ve since learned that The Examiner was the first paper outside of Alaska to pick up […]

Bow Wows & Meows creator Bruce Robinson plans to debut the pug in the Super Bowl Doritos commercial in his comic strip. BOW WOWS & MEOWS creator, Bruce Robinson said, “Pugs are one of my favorite dog breeds and I was happy to see one of them get their rightly deserved international attention…especially when she […]

Sketchaholic interviews For Better of For Worse creator Lynn Johnston. It’s broken up into six parts – but they bleed into each other. I’ve written out what topic they are talking about at the beginning of each video.First video: Lynn talks about her start in cartooning. What’s harder? Getting exposure or gaining the talent? Where […]

Washington Post Staff Writer Peter Marks offers a stinging review of the “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” broadway musical. The 8-year-old boys in the audience might be able to key on the Cirque du Soleil-style stunts on wires and video-game graphic elements, and probably not worry too much that “Spider-Man” is a tangle of disjointed […]

The webcomic Axe Cop inspired film school director Peter Muehlenberg to turn the first two episodes into online movies. Muehlenberg’s fan video, which he posted on YouTube late last month, turns the first Axe Cop webcomic into a 2-minute blast of cheesy flames, dinosaur blood and exposition. He said he shot Axe Cop the Movie: […]

Bob Scott’s Molly and the Bear has moved up from Comics Sherpa to join other web only comics on Gocomics.com. Bob is a veteran animator who has worked with Pixar and Dreamworks Animation. Tom Racine interviewed Bob back in 2009 for this Tall tale Radio podcast.

I’ve been using The Daily every day since it launched last week. The new iPad only app is being touted as a futurist newspaper. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdock has reportedly spent $30 million building the app (and the newsroom) from the ground up. It’s a huge undertaking and there’s been a huge buzz about […]

Editorial cartoonist Michael Pohrer (AKA: “MJ”) returned to his Alma Mater, Francis Howell located in Weldon Springs, to discuss the art of cartooning. The Cartoonist, MJ stated “I met and talked with the current student body. I was impressed* with the level of quality material that the students were producing. I got to watch quite […]

Andre Trantraal, a cartoonist for the Cape Times, alleges that police searched his home without a warrant pointing guns at his family – including children. Describing the incident, Andre Trantraal said: “I was about to enter my front gate when two police vans pulled up and 10 to 15 heavily armed policemen got out. One […]