» The Washington Post has posted a time-lapse video of editorial cartoonist Tom Toles drawing this cartoon. You can see the May 15th being drawn out.» Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller was featured on Maine news network about his passion for cartooning and living in Maine.» Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, was interviewed by the […]
Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist Drew Litton has posted his first animation – and it’s not sports related. Regarding the Flash animation, he writes on his blog: I started by doing a Rockies cartoon, but their season, much like my animation, took a sudden detour. So I went back to square one and decided to […]
The Norm creator Michael Jantze‘s animation short “Mr. Lux: At Your Service” has been accepted into the Short Film Corner at this year’s Festival de Cannes. “Mr. Lux: At Your Service” is a fast ride of traditional animation utilizing both pencil to paper animation and the latest in computer software. A new character from Jantze, […]
Fortune reports that Wall-E character “Eve” was inspired by Apple’s iPod and in fact, Pixar brought in Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, to consult for a day on the character’s design. “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to […]
While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial […]
There are three big animated motion pictures due out this summer. “Kung Fu Panda”, “Wall-E” and “Igor.” If they live up to their premises and the trailers, we’re in for some great entertainment.“Kung Fu Panda” is the first on to hit the screen on June 6th. Panda features Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Luci […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be speaking at the National Archives in May regarding the evolution of political cartoons from two-dimensional print to 3-D animation. The lecture is entitled, “Moving Political Cartoons from Page to Screen” and will be on May 8th. On a related note, KAL has created his own video channel over on YouTube […]
Watch New Yorker cartoonist Steve Brodner discuss and draw the current presidential candidates. Love his water coloring.
Economist cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher unveiled his animated Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton last night at Atlanta’s Alliance theater. You can see the video on the Economist’s web site.
RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best Animated Video of 2008 for its animation of New Yorker cartoons. Those cartoons run on RingTales’ site, The New Yorker and as an iTunes podcast which has generated over 24 million views. In the category […]
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started out like most. When Garry approached the paper, the ran his stuff because “we print pretty much anything.”» Neil Cohn, a frequent speaker on the topic of “visual language theory” has posted research that “reports […]
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints. “It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a […]
Two upcoming episodes of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will not be viewed in the U.S. because the Cartoon network pulled them because “they savage another cable network, BET.” BET CEO Debra Lee is depicted in Sunday’s episode as Debra Lee-vil, a Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network “that would […]
Here are a couple of interesting clips of an early Pogo animated show that according to Mike Lynch, the animated show was never completed due to the poor health of Pogo creator Walt KellyGo see Part one and part 2.