Alan Gardner

Interesting post over at Mental Floss about 21 notable actors who did voice work for various animated series and movies. I didn’t know John Ritter voiced Clifford the Big Red Dog.

I’m a bit surly this morning after reading the news that my one-time local paper The Standard Examiner hired a freelance cartoonist to do local cartoons once drawn by the genius cartoonist (and personal friend) Cal Grondahl. The Examiner laid Cal off last month a couple years shy of his retirement. Now I learn the […]

Hollywood Reporter has a good update on the latest court case involving Stan Lee Media’s attempt to assert it’s ownership of Marvel characters. I wrote about the recent case in Pennsylvania last week. Disney is using that case to get a judge to resolve once and for all Stan Lee’s claims and future litigation.According to […]

I’ve known of the hidden symbols in Dan Piraro’s Bizarro strip for years, but didn’t know each one had a specific meaning. The The News-Democrat explains it all: About 10 years after he started the strip, Piraro began adding “secret symbols” to his panels. “I started on a whim in 1995 — just to entertain […]

Timmy Failure author and Pearls Before Swine comic creator Stephan Pastis is heading out on two book tours – one for the second book in his Timmy Failure series and the other for his latest Pearls Before Swine book (Pearls Falls Fast). In all he’s hitting 15 or so different venues. To see if he’s […]

Michael Cavna notes that recent story-lines in Pearls Before Swine in which the Stephan Pastis character is having marital problems is generating inquiries into real-life marriage status of Stephan Pastis who maintains he and his wife are NOT going through a divorce.From Comic Riffs blog: Pastis admits that he, of course, brings this all upon […]

Over at Robot6, Corey Blake crunches numbers of crowd-funding platforms. Of interest is the rapid rise of Patreon for comic creators. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, read Corey’s piece and then head over to Patreon to learn more. Patreon’s model would fit better with The Daily Cartoonist fundraising efforts in the future and would […]

I know I’ve mentioned this case before. Here’s the back story again: Jabeur Mejri was sentenced to seven and a half years in a Tunisian jail for posting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook. Under pressure from human rights groups, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki had publicly stated he wanted to release Mejri, but was […]

The National Cartoonist Society has announced the line-up of speakers for the upcoming Reuben Awards weekend. Also announced is a return of the NCS A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire) given to a notable individual who aspired to be a cartoonist but became famous by other means. This year’s A.C.E. recipient is ?Weird Al? Yankovic. NCS […]

On May 4 an entire Simpson’s episode will be in the form of Legos. The article from The Guardian suggests it’s due to the success of The LEGO movie, but that seems like a quick turn-around. Regardless, it’s also the 550th episode.From The Guardian: Thanks to heavy marketing including an entire ad break recreated with […]

Mike Lester’s comic Mike Du Jour will start running in the Florida Times-Union in March – which is also his home paper. They gave him a front page story on their features page. The humor in ?Mike Du Jour? is observational rather than topical, Lester said, although topical events ? such as the Winter Olympics […]

There’s been some changes in the comic line-up at the Charlotte Observer. They picked up Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug and being a local, they gave him some press.

ABC News interviews 92 year-old Al Jaffee who is still drawing the iconic MAD Magazine fold-in feature which is celebrating 50 years in the magazine.Also discussed – the fold-in that didn’t run (skip to 1:17)

I saw this story last year, but doesn’t look like I linked to it. Background: Army Sgt. Kimberly Walker, a big fan of SpongeBob SquarePants, was murdered last Valentines Day. Her family erected a large SpongeBob SquarePants headstone over her grave site. The cemetery initially approved the headstone, but after complaints they later removed them. […]

Johnny Hart’s B.C. turns 56 today. I’m surprised that this is the first time I’ve seen the first strip.