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Here’s the official trailer for Chad Carpenter’s Moose: The Movie. It debuted in Alaska last night. I didn’t realize Tom Gammill starred in it. You can read the review at the Alaska Dispatch News.

This year’s Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Looking though the list (below), I’m seeing several familiar names. Glad to see Richard Thompson nominated for The Complete Cul de Sac in the Best Humor Publication category. Brian Fies has been nominated in the Best Digital/Web Comic category for his comic “The Last Mechanical Monster”. I’m […]

Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price does this from time to time – takes a week off and brings in a guest cartoonist to keep the strip going. This week’s guest cartoonist is Susan Camilleri-Konar. Her cartoons started on Monday and continue through Sunday.Hat tip: Rina Piccolo

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will lose its current space in June after a lease ends.From the San Francisco Chronicle:The institution, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has to vacate its home in downtown San Francisco after its longtime lease ends in June, but it has not yet found a new one. ?It?s […]

Bill Holbrook’s Kevin & Kell, one of the longest running webcomics ever, relaunched on King Feature’s Comics Kingdom yesterday starting with strips from 2009. Bill has been producing the strip since 1995.“Bringing classic “Kevin & Kell” strips to Comics Kingdom is an exciting development, as it opens up a whole new audience for the tale […]

K Chronicles creator Keith Knight hinted that the reaction to the cartoon above that was posted on DailyKos was so bad, he felt he needed to take it down.The Raw Story has more on the reaction both by Keith and DailyKos readers.But Knight assured us that he himself made the decision to pull down the […]

BFG is a Gardner family favorite of the Roald Dahl books. I’m excited to see Steven Spielberg will be taking on this film. It’s due out in July 1 2016. The movie will be co-financed and co-produced by Disney. Bill Hader has been signed as one o the mean giants.

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Ruben Bolling, writer and creator of “Tom the Dancing Bug,” one of the greatest comics ever, is branching out into the world of kid’s novels with his first EMU Club […]

The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock talks about art at Carthage College.

Brian Fies has announced that his graphic novel, Mom’s Cancer is returning to the web where it started. Starting next Monday, the comic will be hosted on GoComics.Mom’s Cancer started as a free webcomic, on a primitive site I hosted myself. When I signed my book contract with Abrams, they quite reasonably asked me to […]

Universal Uclick adds maybe 37 or so comics a day to the GoClick roster. That might be a slight exaggeration, but they certainly add a substantial number each month. I noticed that they started a new feature by Dan Collins called Looks Good on Paper – which is an ironic title for a webcomic.Good luck […]

Brian Walker, comic historian, author and son of Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, posted the first week of proposed strips to be included in the 1950 launch of the iconic comic, but three of the strips were rejected by the syndicate and were never published.Here’s the first one.Head over to Beetle Bailey to see the […]

Last week Doonesbury creator Garry Trueau was honored with the George Polk Awards – the first cartoonist to ever be so honored. His speech as has created a stir in cartooning circles (and anyone in the larger free speech circle) because he laid the blame of the attack at Charlie Hebdo on the magazine’s cartoonists. […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Tall Tale Radio tackles the ongoing beast that is Social Media!  In a wonderfully fun roundtable discussion, Lucas Turnbloom (“Imagine This”), Irma Eriksson (“Imy”), and Francesco Marciuliano (“Sally Forth”) join […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Dana Simpson is back to talk about her amazing strip “Heavenly Nostrils” which is now “Phoebe and Her Unicorn” and has launched in 110 papers, in one of the biggest […]