The International Animated Film Society (ASIFA-Hollywood) has announced the nominees for this year’s best in animation.Here they are:Best Animated Feature Despicable Me – Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures How to Train Your Dragon – DreamWorks Animation Tangled – Disney The Illusionist – Django Films Toy Story 3 – Disney/Pixar Best Animated Short Subject Coyote Falls […]
Amherst College alum Bill Amend and Darby Conley were brought together to discuss their work in cartooning. Bill is the creator of Foxtrot and Darby does Get Fuzzy. To my knowledge, Darby is a bit reclusive, so this interview is somewhat rare.Download or listen through browser.
Interesting interview with Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau on The Colbert Report. Host Stephen Colbert describes Garry’s early strips as looking like they were drawn by a child with palsy and that Garry’s 40 year run is only eclipsed by Charles Schulz but notes that Sparky’s work has ‘tapered off.’
You may have seen the viral campaign on Facebook asking users to change their profile picture to a cartoon character from their childhood. The campaign purports to rally support against child abuse, but nobody seems to know where the request originates and there is some speculation that it even makes it easier for pedophiles to […]
Paul Ackley has been a freelance editorial cartoonist for The Daily Advocate since 1980.
I’m a bit late on this one – last week’s extended opening weekend placed Disney’s Tangled and Megamind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively for top grossing films that weekend. The weekend’s real box-office story, however, was Disney’s Tangled, which surpassed the studio’s wildest fairy-tale expectations by grossing $49.1 million during the three-day weekend, and […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 films nominated for Best Animated Short film. In alphabetical order:“The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger,” Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio) “Coyote Falls,” Matthew O’Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.) “Day & Night,” Teddy Newton, director […]
The Spider-Man musical is in trouble. From CNN: The production has been delayed for months, with opening dates postponed several times due to mostly technical difficulties with the special effects, flying tricks and stunts that take place on stage and over the audiences. During rehearsals, an accident injured performers and crew, and on Sunday, November […]
An early cartoon (1903) by Henry Mayo Bateman will not be auctioned off by Christies after a Jewish amateur antiques dealer complained. The cartoon depicts a man with bearded Jewish man with a skull-cap with talon-like fingers and a tail. The auction house consulted with Scotland yard to see if the auction would violate a […]
Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book Moms Needs Moms is heading to the big screen. A trailer has been posted:It hits theaters on March 11.
Responding the job losses of Matt Davies, Marshall Ramsey and Drew Sheneman Steve Greenberg writes:.If these AAEC numbers are right, then that?s a loss of 35 positions, or more than a 34 percent drop in 30 months. Polar ice caps aren?t disappearing as quickly. All of the full-time cartoonist positions in Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, […]
New Yorker regular cartoonist Bob Eckstein has launched a new online humor magazine called The Basement. The site includes cartoons from several well known artists including Meg Pokrass, Rina Piccolo, Susan Camilleri Konar, Flash Rosenberg, J. Bear Savo, and Matthew Reiss. In addition to the cartoons, the site features poetry, music and original animation.
As always, an interesting interview by Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) with Andrew Farago, who is not only the curator for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, but the author or a new coffee table book Looney Tunes Treasury: Includes Amazing Interactive Treasures from the Warner Bros. Vault!.
Lio creator Mark Tatulli may not be the only cartoonist cornering the market on Calvin and Hobbes parodies. Currently making its way through the interwebs is a Calvin and Hobbes strip written as a Twilight Zone episode. The cartoonist, Timothy Lim (AKA “Ninjaink”) has several other Calvin and Hobbes works including this gruesome one (below).
Rob Tornoe has released the second edition of his Punchline magazine. Punchline is a humor magazine published in the Delaware area.