The Comic Journal’s Tom Crippen posted a quote from The R. Crumb Handbook (by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski) which opines that Charles Schulz and Jules Fieiffer’s work was lacking in technique.The quote in question: If you look at a comics page drawn by Jack Davis or at Wally Wood’s science fiction stuff, who cares […]
Fleen Guy’s Gary Tyrrell has news that several cartoonists are banding together to hold an auction of original art to raise money for Gulf of Mexico clean up and restoration efforts. Gary interviews Carly Monardo who is one of the main organizers. Fleen: Let’s start from the beginning – give us the 30 second version […]
NPR had two stories – one on their weekend edition and another during their Morning Edition program.Jeff Stahler pays tribute in today’s Moderately Confused (see below).Ted Slampyak, who drew the strip for the last six years, was quoted in the BBC. “The appeal of Annie is simply that she doesn’t give up,” said Ted Slampyak, […]
The Humble Stumble creator Roy Schneider is now on tour with his latest album Erleichda. The album is described as folk, blues, rock, funk, jam and gypsy jazz influences blended together with a mild country edge. In June he’ll be Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California. Later months will take him up north into Montana, Minnesota, […]
Back in April I reported that the Looney Tunes were back in production for a Looney Tunes animated series on the Cartoon Network. Collider.com has the first images of the series. Here is the press release: This year marks a return to the big screen for Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, two of the […]
Tuesdays the “Six Chix” cartoonst Margaret Shulock has posted the Six Chix submissions for a division award in this year’s National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards weekend. Piers Baker, creator of Ollie and Quentin has done the same.
Quick congratulations to Canadian editorial cartoonist Brian Gable (The Globe and Mail) for winning this year’s National Newspaper Award. Runners up included Malcolm Mayes (Edmonton Journal), and Terry Mosher (AKA “Aislin”) (the Gazette, Montreal).
Rumors of a Jason Segel written, James Bobin directed Muppets full feature movie appears to be true. Disney says that the new film has officially been given a December 25, 2011 release date. The film, which will also star Segel alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal and the rest, will now go up against the […]
Wired magazine takes us behind the scenes of the day by day creation of a Pixar movie (in this case, Toy Story). Day 36 So far, the characters exist only as digital illustrations. Character design has begun. Some are sculpted in clay and scanned. Others are drawn by hand. Later, visual textures-fur, fabric, hair-will be […]
The comic strip may be ending this Sunday, but Little Orphan Annie is heading back to Broadway. According to the Associated Press, Producer Arielle Madover has acquired the production rights to the comic strip and the return is scheduled for the fall of 2012.
Investor’s Business Daily’s editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez will be a guest lecturer at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on June 14. Michael’s lecture is entitled “Editorial Cartooning, Journalism and a Citizen’s Responsibility in a New World Order.” He will also be signing his latest book “Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.” Both events are […]
T Lewis and Michael Fry’s Over the Hedge will celebrate its 15 years in syndication on this Saturday. The feature currently runs in 250 papers and has been made into a full feature computer-animated film starring the voice talent of Bruce Willis, Wanda Sykes, Avril Lavigne, Steve Carell, Eugene Levy and William Shatner. The movie […]
Comic Riffs’ Michael Cavna has posted an open letter or invitation asking Ken Burns to consider making a new documentary of the American cartoon. Michael argues that such a movie should be made sooner rather than later for two reasons: First, the state of the American cartoon is in such tremendous flux: Staff political cartoonists […]
In the last couple of weeks there have been a lot of “which comic strips should be made into movies” lists due to the Marmaduke movie and we’ve discussed the topic here and here. Before I get accused of milking the question to death (I have) – may I point to you ONE more list […]
This was the opening movie shown at the start of the 2010 Reuben Award night in Jersey City – a take on “The Godfather”.Featuring in order of appearance: Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Jeff Keane (Family Circus and NCS President), Jerry Scott (Baby Blues, Zits), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats), Mark Tatulli (Lio, Heart of […]