Best-selling author and illustrator Suzy Becker talks about filling in on the daily comic strip â??Rhymes with Orangeâ? while cartoonist Hilary Price was on vacation a couple of weeks ago.â??I thought it was a great opportunity for me. Iâ??ve thought about doing a weekly because I have a lot of cartoon ideas I donâ??t get […]
Drew Litton, the staff sports cartoonist at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, debuts the first installment of his online animated cartoon series “The Broncs Zoo.”The Denver Broncos have long been my favorite topic to draw about (25 years now at the Rocky Mountain News) and I’m always looking for fun ways to cartoon the […]
Mark Buford, creator of “Scary Gary,” sits down with John C. Snider of www.scifidimensions.com and talks about his comic strip.In the podcast, Buford offers a glimpse not only into his influences — the comics and the people who have inspired him — but also into the inspiration for Scary Gary, how the innovative comic was […]
The German government is developing a comic strip in an attempt to drive Muslim youth away from Islamic extremism and the cartoon is being met with a great deal of resistance from the Muslim community. You can listen to an interview about the comic strip with Taris Ahmad, a representative of the Islamic Human Rights […]
Clay Bennett added the Ink Bottle Award to his 2008 honors at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention on Saturday.AAEC President Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle and WPWG said a major reason for the Ink Bottle honor was Bennett’s work as AAEC president in 2005-6. During that “tumultuous and eventful” time, recalled Anderson, […]
In the months of July and August, F Minus creator Tony Carrillo will teach classes at Changing Hands, a Tempe, Ariz. bookstore, for teens and tweens. Classes are focused on everything from basic cartoons to visual storytelling. Info at www.changinghands.com.
The moustache of John Oates (of Hall & Oates fame) will star in an animated series. Billboard reports that ‘J-Stache’ follows the adventures of Hall & Oates star John Oates, who is coaxed out of his family man life and back into the music world by… his moustache (voiced by comedian Dave Attell). Speaking to […]
JG Jones, a former layout man and editorial cartoonist for The Brooklyn Paper, is the steady hand behind the new movie â??Wanted.â? The action movie, starring Angelina Jolie, is based on a graphic novel Jones created with writer Mark Millar.â??I was amazed that it even got made [into a movie],â? Jones said. â??And there I […]
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Fox Television’s “Family Guy”, will unveil a new project of animated cartoons that will appear exclusively on the Internet. The experimental project is called â??Seth MacFarlaneâ??s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedyâ? and will debut in September.The cartoons will be paired with advertisements placed on targeted Web sites, and will also be […]
England’s Martin Honeysett and Iranian Shahrokh Heidari are among the winners of the Kyoto International Cartoon Contest. The contest is designed to raise the awareness of the public and of governments alike on the critical issue of global warming.
The Mail Tribune in Medford, Oregon decides not to discontinue Peanuts due to reader reaction.Fort Wayne, Indiana’s Journal Gazette will add â??The Brilliant Mind of Edison Leeâ? and “Bound and Gagged” to their daily comics pages.
Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, who teach comic art at New York’s School of Visual Arts, have authored Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Definitive Course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons and were interviewed on National Public Radio.Abel and Madden have been teaching comic art at New York’s School of Visual Arts for […]
Turner Broadcasting has acquired the rights to The Garfield Show, will be shot in HD, and debut on the Cartoon Network in 2009. The series will air in territories across Europe, Middle East and Africa; Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Editorial cartoonist Kal (Kevin Kallaugher) recently returned from a cartoon diplomacy trip to Azerbaijan and notes that the country is trying to find itself in terms of freedom of expression after years of Communist single party rule.An excerpt from Kal’s post:You would expect to find suppression of free thinkers like cartoonists in authoritarian regimes. But […]
Bob Andelman’s Mr. Media blog will feature Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis. This interview will also feature a call-in number, so you can talk to Stephan himself.Details about this interview can be found here.Thanks to Mark Tatulli for the tip.