Every Pixar feature film is accompanied by a short film that plays before the main feature. Various film blogs are reporting details about the short film “Partly Cloudy” that will be released with “Up.” The short will be centered around a gray cloud name Gus. From the animationblog.com comes this synopsis. Everyone knows that the […]
» From a reader of the Orlando Sentinel comes a report that the paper moved their comic section out of the features section and into the middle of the classified section. I can only presume the paper is trying to drive more readers into the classifieds to maintain (increase?) the value of said ads.» The […]
Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress and presumed next president of South Africa, has filed another suit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (pen name “Zapiro”) over a series of “unflattering cartoons” that Zuma supporters consider racist. “I’ve been accused of racism many times in the past seven or eight months. In the previous […]
Patrick O’Connor, who was laid off from the Los Angeles Daily News back in January, has picked up a bit of work with the cross town rival paper the Los Angeles Times doing illustrations for their op-ed page.From his blog, he writes: I’ve been doing some illustrations for the Los Angeles Times! Most editors and […]
Ted Rall, who worked as the Editor of Acquisitions and Development at United Media has been laid off last Thursday. Ted tells me that eight other individuals were also let go and that his responsibilities would probably be reassigned to other people. Ted was brought in for the position back in 2006. During his term […]
The Winners of this year’s Stumptown Awards were announced over the weekend. The winners are:Outstanding Art: Spike – Templar, Arizona Outstanding Debut: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Design: Jeffrey Ellis – Historyonics Outstanding D.I.Y.: E. Stackhouse & N. Shahan – Brazilianoir Outstanding Small Press: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Writing: Spike […]
Steve Breen has been honored this year with his second Pulitzer Prize. The San Diego Union Tribune editorial cartoonist took the prize in 1998 while at the Asbury Park Press. He has been with the Union Tribune since 2001. Regarding this year’s submissions, the judges wrote that this award is for “his agile use of […]
With the announcement that Steve Breen being named as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, so too are named the other finalists. This year’s finalists also include Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press and Matt Wuerker of Politico. This is the third time Mike has been been a finalist. The judges note that […]
Benita Epstein is the latest cartoonist to join the Six Chix comic strip, replacing Kathryn LeMieux, who is leaving the feature to pursue other interests. Benita’s first strip was in yesterday’s paper and future daily work will be featured on Fridays (Sundays are rotated amongst the six women).“Kathryn LeMieux’s contribution to Six Chix over the […]
The Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced at 3 p.m. EST. I will be posting the announcements as they are made public. Meet back here to discuss the winner.
This year’s nominees for the Stumptown Trophy Awards has been released. The winners will be announced at this year’s The Stumptown Comics Fest 2009 in Portland OR this weekend. This is the festival’s 5th year.Nominees for Outstanding Artmiriam libicki TABLE 51 – jobnik!, fierce ease jason janicki TABLE 121 – Wayfarer terrytoledo – Sid Love […]
Jim Lange, who spent 58 years on the editorial page of The Oklahoman died last night. He was 82. He retired last fall. Via the Tulsa World: “Jim Lange was not only one of the greatest political cartoonists Oklahoma ever produced, he was one of the most outstanding cartoonists in the history of American journalism,” […]
ComicsGo check out The Daily Cross Hatch’s full audio and video of a recent discussion featuring notables Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, and Gary Groth.Editorial Cartooning» Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger, will be one of three artists featured at the Winston County Library on Saturday.Comic Strips» Over on Tall Tales Radio, Mark Tatulli, one […]
Dean Koontz, the suspense-thriller best-selling author has produced his first graphic novel. The graphic novel is entitled, “In Odd We Trust” and is about a young man named Odd Thomas who has a secret – he can see dead people. Artist Queenie Chan provides the manga art style.From Examiner.com: The pacing of the novel is […]
» A Cincinnati Enquirer reader emailed me to tell me that their paper cut their Sunday comics to four pages. They’ve squished six comics onto the front page of the comic section: Zits, Peanuts, For Better or For Worse, Baby Blues, Blondie and Hi and Lois.» Michael Cavna blogs that the Washington Post has reinstated […]