The three Pearls Before Swine strips that ran earlier in June that set off an internet wide speculation whether famed Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was contributing artwork (he was!) were auctioned off last night. The combined value for all three strips was $41,000. Below is the break down of each strip.$11k $19k $11k […]
From the One Million Moms 1MM will defend our Savior because He is Holy! Adult Swim is obviously not a family network, and this program is set to air later in the evening when children should be asleep, but that is no excuse. Adult Swim has crossed the line by belittling the Christian religion with […]
Cartoonist Guy Gilchrist will be a guest on “The 700 Club With Pat Robertson” tonight. Guy Gilchrist grew up in a poor family and was abused as a child. He wrote a personal song which was more of a poem describing his sorrow and how much he missed not having a Dad at the time. […]
The three Pearls Before Swine strips that Bill Watterson and Stephan Pastis collaborated on are in their last day before auction end. So far, the strips together are being sold for a combined total of $30,000. Individually, they’re going as follows:$9,500: $13,000: /wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/pbs-watterson-small-2.jpg$7,500: As I said, this is the last day of bidding. If you […]
From The New York Times:Jay Maeder, a columnist and editor for The Daily News and The Miami Herald and the last writer of the comic strip ?Annie,? died on Tuesday at his sister?s home in Houston. He was 67. The cause was cancer, his companion, Amanda Hass, said. He lived in Greenwood Lake, N.Y.The Times […]
Someone had the genius idea of peaking into the trove of Richard Thompson art and had decided to turn them into greeting cards. And really – what would you rather send – a sappy card or one that you’ll spend an extra few minutes looking at the lines, color and expression before sealing the envelope. […]
Lio creator Mark Tatulli’s new book Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters hits book shelves tomorrow. Here’s a teaser of what to expect.Mark is a natural for this genre.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-power-of-the-doodle-improve-your-focus-and-memory-1406675744?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=iosapp:Recent research in neuroscience, psychology and design shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information. A blank page also can serve as an extended playing field for the brain, allowing people to revise and improve on creative thoughts and ideas. Doodles are spontaneous marks that can take many forms, […]
While watching a promotional video of the career of Jeff MacNelly by Tribune Media Services back in the lat ’90’s, I saw Jeff use what looked like both a office pen with a cap that was putting down a line that only comes from a brush. I asked Jeff’s assistant Chris Cassatt if he knew […]
A pan-handler dressed as your friendly neighborhood web crawler got into an altercation with the police. The New York Post has the video (below). Best line from the accompanying story: “A crowd of fellow mascots, including Elmo, Batman and a side-by-side Mickey and Minnie Mouse, also stood watch, their fuzzy mitts held to their giant […]
From the Washington Post:Organizers of two of the biggest comic-book conventions in the country are clashing over their names. A lawyer for San Diego Comic-Con has issued a cease-and-desist letter to organizers of Utah’s Salt Lake Comic Con demanding them to drop “Comic Con” from the name. “Attendees, exhibitors and fans seeing use of ‘Comic […]
Chester Gould, who created Dick Tracy, appeared on the TV show To Tell the Truth in 1965.
Amy Lago, Washington Post Writer’s Group Comics Editor, will be at this year’s 2014 Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and providing portfolio reviews for aspiring professional cartoonists. If you’re planning to attend and would like this opportunity to have your work reviewed by one of the best editors in the business, you need to register first […]
I don’t wish I was going to San Diego Comic-Con (I have a natural aversion to large crowds of grown people acting like children. P.S. Get off my lawn.), but this t-shirt by the The National Cartoonists Society makes me wish I was there so I could buy one. Features artwork by Bill Amend, Sergio […]