Video: Illustrator Ed Vebell talks about Bill Mauldin
Ed Vebell, a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during World War II talks about sharing an office with Bill Mauldin. The vignette below runs 4 minutes.Via Mike Lynch
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Nashville Tennessee is Nancy’s home town
In the strip the characters have lived in a fictional suburban town of Three Rocks, but yesterday’s Nancy Sunday comic reveals that Three Rocks is a suburb of the not-so-fictional Nashville, TN. The comic was part of a Nashville anti-littering campaign and Nancy is the spokesperson. From Nancy writer/illustrator Guy Gilchrist’s blog: The upcoming Sunday […]
Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will have an exhibit of his work at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY. The exhibit opens September 18 and runs through the end of October. The opening reception features Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News), Jack Ohman (Sacramento Bee), Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and William Hamilton (The New Yorker). […]
That Monkey Tune launches on GoComics
Michael Kandalaft’s That Monkey Tune is now on GoComics. Michael’s strip started as a webcomic in 2006 and started appearing in newspapers in 2010.
DC Comics holds contest to draw naked woman committing suicide
DC Comics is holding a contest to find an undiscovered talent, but what they’re asking aspiring artists to draw is shocking some.Here’s what they want drawn: Harley sitting naked in a bathtub with toasters, blow dryers, blenders, appliances all dangling above the bathtub and she has a cord that will release them all. We are […]
Harvey Award winners announced
This weekend the Harvey Awards were given out during the Baltimore Comic Con. The winners are: BEST LETTERER – Chris Eliopoulos for “FEAR ITSELF”, published by Marvel Comics BEST COLORIST – Dave Stewart for “HELLBOY: THE FURY”, published by Dark Horse Comics BEST SYNDICATED STRIP – “Dick Tracy” by Mike Curtis and Joe Staton BEST […]
First Salt Lake Comic Con sets records
The inaugural Salt Lake Comic Con has set the record for the largest opening comic con in the nation with over 90,000 tickets sold for the three day event. 70-80,000 were estimated to have attended Saturday alone stretching the convention center to capacity and requiring the fire marshal to limit entry. That action barred even […]
Interviewed: R. Stevens and his new Diesel Sweeties book collections
Comic Book Resources interviews Diesel Sweeties creator R. Stevens about his strip and his latest themed book collections. This year, Stevens has teamed with Oni Press to begin releasing “Diesel Sweeties” in book form. The first volume, on sale now, is “Diesel Sweeties: I’m a Rocker, I Rock Out.” The book, to quote the description, […]
Judge: Disney owns Marvel characters. Take hike Stan Lee Media
From Deadline.com: Turns out the Walt Disney Company really does own the rights to the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee, at least according to a federal judge today. U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez Thursday granted with prejudice Disney’s motion to dismiss Stan Lee Media’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit superhero copyright suit. In his 11-page order […]
Oyster Books seeks to do to books what Netflix did to movies
Having mixed thoughts about the announcement of this new service called Oyster which hopes to do to books what Netflix did to movies – a flat monthly fee for unlimited access to a vast collection of books. As a reader, this excites me as I spend more time in books these days than I do […]
Pixar director removed from “The Good Dinosaur”
From the Huffington Post: Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” is due out in theaters in nine months, but that apparently hasn’t stopped Pixar chief John Lasseter from tinkering under the film’s hood. According to a report from Disney blog Blue Sky Disney, “Good Dinosaur” director Bob Peterson has been removed from the project. No replacement has […]
Jeff Bezos: people pay for a package, not a story
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced last month that he was buying the Washington Post for $250 million. He’s been making the rounds at the paper talking to staff about his plans and vision. But this caught my eye: The Bezos plan for the news organization he has agreed to buy for $250 million centers on […]
DC execs say no to Batwoman gay marriage; 2 authors leave
Two Batwoman authors have left DC Comics after executives denied a possible wedding between the Kathy Kane character and her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer.From the Atlantic Wire: “We’re both heartbroken over leaving, but we feel strongly that you all deserve stories that push the character and the series forward. We can’t reliably do our best work […]
The Jeff Parker exit interview
Back in July, editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker announced that he was voluntarily stepping away from his staff job that he’s held for the last 21 years with Florida Today. Jeff cited the need to reduce workload and spend more time working on the comic strip Dustin that he co-created with former Times-Picayune editorial cartoonist Steve […]
Mr. Media interviews Christopher Hart
Mr. How-to-draw-cartoons author Christopher Hart is interviewed by Bob Andelman about his new book Manga for the Beginner Midnight Monsters: How to Draw Zombies, Vampires, and Other Delightfully Devious Characters of Japanese Comics. The video also features him demoing how to do it.