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Matt Groening is interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show about his upcoming movie – The Simpson’s Movie

A new Garfield DVD will be out in September containing 15 “dream-themed” episodes of the Garfield & Friends TV show.

Over on Lee Glover’s blog, “Mice Laugh Softly Charlotte” he’s got a rare treat that will only be posted for the next couple of weeks (next 4 to be exact). It’s a rarely seen animation circa 1935 called Teched in the Head and featured the “debut of comic-strip character Barney Google.” Tetched in the Head […]

Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for the D.C. rag Politico, writes in to announce that Ann Telnaes’ animated editorial cartoons are now featured in the British newspaper web site – the Guardian. The Guardian is one of England’s flagship newspapers.

Yes, the Peanuts gang has some of the world’s most recognized characters; is a national treasure; and of course, beloved by all. So when you’re all that, you become a target for parody. The movie ends with this: The creator of this picture wishes to state that he does not in any way wish to […]

Jonathan Mahood writes in to announce that his feature, Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog has moved to GoComics.com as of last Friday and has been optioned for a Canadian animated television show. Bleeker, which first appeared in the ComicSherpa last July features a robotic toy dog and his hyper 10 year-old owner, Skip. The animation project […]

Mike Keefe is another cartoonist that is openly advocating that animated editorial cartoons should not be judged along side of print editorial cartoonists. In a comment posted on Daryl Cagle’s blog, Mike responds to earlier comments by Scott Stantis I am a great fan of editorial cartoon animation and have tried my hand at it […]

From YouTube. I’m actually surprised at how well the animators tried to keep the original drawing style of Bill Watterson. The next thing I thought was, I’m really glad Bill never sold out and licensed C&H for animation. Watching the short did take away something from strip. Because the strip had no voices attached to […]

Last August, I told you about a rumor that an Opus movie is in the works for a late 2008 screen opening. According to Jim Hill, a blogger that covers the entertainment industry (specifically all things Walt Disney), who spoke with Berkeley Breathed during a recent book tour stop, Berkeley is also working with two […]

With all three of the Pulitzer Prize nominees having submitted animated editorial cartoons, I was beginning to wonder if that was the harbinger that ushers in the era of animated editorial cartoons (at least for those who want the “prize”). Signe Wilkinson is the latest to take a swing at animation. You can check it […]

According to E&p, Rubes cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has created an opening-sequence animation for an independent film entitled “Moola” that opens this Friday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California

Michael Fry Last May, I told you that Michael Fry (the writer behind Over the Hedge), had started a company called RingTales along with Jim Cox (the executive co-producer for the Over the Hedge movie). Their objective was to create small animated shorts from existing print cartoons that can be distributed via mobile phones, blogs/web […]