Alan Gardner

The movie looks more interesting now than after I watched the first trailer.

The title is of a recent Wall Street Journal article (‘Calvin and Hobbes’: America’s Most Profound Comic Strip) is perhaps a bit hyperbolic. I’m not sure it’s the most profound, but certainly one of.Here’s the money quotes with my thoughts: ?Calvin and Hobbes? would have faced big challenges if Mr. Watterson had decided to carry […]

Reporters without Borders highlight eight individuals around the world whose profession as cartoonists is personally dangerous. The shootings on 7 January in Paris and 14 February in Copenhagen showed the extent to which cartoonists are now the targets of extremist movements. In other parts of the world, it is often governments that try to silence […]

Universal Uclick has launched a new website to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. On the site you can buy Calvin and Hobbes books, reprints and the book, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes An Exhibition Catalogue. The new book is the catalogue for Bill’s exhibition at the Billy […]

Charles Brubaker wrote an interesting piece over at Cartoon Research about the attempts to make The Wizard of Id into an animated TV show. I always considered The Wizard of Id to be one of my big cartooning influence. I always had a thing for Johnny Hart?s dry sense of humor, and I consider Brant […]

Again from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo comes news that Will Roberts interviewed all six of the Six Chix contributors. As far as I know, I can’t think of another radio interview with all six.Give it a listen.

Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was interviewed a couple of times this last week. She writes:On Friday I had the pleasure to speak with America?s favorite cowboy humorist Will Roberts. Will is the host of the Will Roberts Weekly Telegram Radio Show, and a huge fan of comics. It?s no surprise he?s got a special […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: The epic John Sanford, Director over at Dreamworks Animation, continues! We take some cool questions from Facebook followers,  pit famous cartoon characters against one another in deathmatches, talk about John’s […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Welcome to Part 1 of our chat with Dreamworks Animation Director, John Sanford!  John directed many episodes of the TV show “Dragons: Riders of Berk,” was co-director on the Disney […]

Someone had to have seen this somewhere in between the design/concept and production stage and said… “let’s see if we can get this into stores before someone notices.”via Robot6

Upcoming Pixar sums up a few rumors regarding Pixar’s fourth installment of their Toy Story series.Morris also mentioned that the film will be a romantic comedy. And that?s not all, the relationship the toys have with children and people will not be explored. Now this is interesting, because we would have to infer that Bonnie?s […]

Sputnik News is reporting another Lars Vilks speaking event has been cancelled. An earlier lecture was cancelled at Sweden’s Karlstad University due to security concerns. This event, sponsored by Sweden’s Pirate Party, was cancelled after a teacher’s union meeting in the same building on the scheduled day expressed concerns about safety.It is suspected that the […]

Monday’s Mother Goose and Grimm paid tribute to 120 years of comic strip history. Mike Peter’s cartoon depicting The Yellow Kid as the “First Comic Standing” surrounded by iconic comic characters such as Dick Tracy, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Dilbert, Zits, For Better or For Worse, Annie, Garfield among others.I […]

I might be suffering from super hero fatigue because I found this mostly uninteresting, but yeah, I’ll probably go see it.What are your thoughts?

Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian and caricaturist Jason Chatfield relates how he ended up creating a caricature of Larry David. I can?t quite explain why, but being insulted by Larry is a great honour. The job came through a fellow New York illustrator and great friend, Ed Steckley. He passed the job on through an agency, knowing full well […]