Alan Gardner

Ted Rall and David Essman have launched the first episode of their new web-series called “Disposable” about a family trying to survive in the tough economy. Here’s episode one.

Sculptures modeled after the late Johnny Hart’s B.C. characters were put on the auction block to raise money for local charities and colleges in the Birmingham NY area. Four sculptures were sold netting $24,000. Several large sculptures are still available. Organizers hoped to have raised more.Correction: The auction took place in Binghamton, NY not Birmingham.

Loop Sight reports that invitations have been sent out to journalists to cover the announcement of the iPad only newspaper The Daily. The Daily is funded by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The event and announcement is scheduled for February 2. CEO Rupert Murdoch will join Apple VP Eddy Cue. Earlier reports had Steve Jobs attending […]

Last week I mentioned Robert Downey Jr. would voice the character Mr. Peabody for an animated film of Mr. Peabody and Sherman slated to be released in 2014. Cartoon brew has images of the first concept art.

Rumors swirled last week that Will Smith wanted to remake the musical Annie and feature his daughter Willow. Turns out the rumors are now confirmed. “The time is right to bring back ‘Annie’ to the big screen. Of course, we’re true believers in Willow’s talent and believe she will be perfect in this role,” Columbia […]

Earlier this week The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their Academy awards. Here is the list of those nominated in the Best Animated Short Film. Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang […]

Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler received a cease and desist letter from Franklin Covey telling him he’s infringed on their 7 habits trademark (made popular by Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”). Howard has a long running parody called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates,” which Franklin Covey felt infringed on […]

Back in December, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly recently spoke at a TED conference dedicated to women. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” The video wasn’t available back then, but is now. Here it is:

In a word… awesome.Via Mike Lynch.

Tom Racine continues with his video podcasting. This time he’s interviewed Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli. Join me and Mark Tatulli, brilliant writer and artist behind the syndicated strips “Lio” and “Heart of the City.” We talk about his techniques, how blazingly fast he creates his comics (it’ll make you sick), […]

Tom Spurgeon points out that Malaysian cartoonist Zunar has joined the cartoon Movement.Tom writes:This is particularly great for those of us selfish enough to want to see more of Zunar’s broader perspectives on international affairs as opposed to some of the caricature-based material he’s done within his own country. Zunar is perhaps best known for […]

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles ran a cartoon caption contest that netted nearly 2,000 entries. What I was looking for was an entry that took some portion of the drawing and teased out from that a thought-provoking caption that seemed to belong in the cartoon. Humor always a big plus. The winning caption seemed, […]

SuperF**kers, Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher creator James Kochalka has been named Vermont’s first Cartoonist Laureate. Like Vermont?s poet laureate, the cartoonist laureate is a person whose primary residence is Vermont, whose work manifests a high degree of excellence, who has produced a critically acclaimed body of work, and who has a long association with […]

Steve Niles on the current comic climate and how to make it better.It’s not going to be easy. We have to figure out new ways to get material out to the public, learn new ways to reach and sell directly to fans. We’re going to have to be creative, supportive and very DIY sometimes, but […]

From Mike Rhode writing for Washington City Paper: As Steve Conley notes, he’s done it all. He started with a science fiction Web comic (before they were called that), moved it into a comic book, switched to doing an online political comic strip, drew a few licensed comic books including an excellent Star Trek series, […]