Dave Coate has an excellent round-up of comic strips by legendary cartoonists Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson on the theme of snowmen. Snowmen have so much potential for humor and both cartoonists mined it well.Here’s a sample.
If there is but one book I’ll be purchasing this year, this is it.More details over at GoComics, or hells bells – head over to Amazon and pre-order.
Bill Amend, the creator of Foxtrot, has coded and released a math quiz app called “The Jason Fox Math Quizzer“. The motivation for the app is rekindling a rusty skill – programming.Bill writes on his blog: One evening last January I decided that my 2013 New Year?s resolution would be to reawaken that happy younger […]
This week’s sponsor is King Features Syndicate. King Features just launched a complete revamp of their DailyInk comic portal under their Comics Kingdom branding. It’s a great improvement. You can read all of their comics for free or if you sign up for their Royal subscription plan, you get an ad-free experience, comics delivered via […]
The drawing desk of Jim Borgman.The fine folks over at King Features posted photos of some of their talent’s studios. I love photos like these. What stands out to me is the lack of the drafting tables. You know, the old tilted tables where you’d also dip a brush into an ink bottle and try […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Todd Clark of “Lola” fame is on the show to talk about his long and wonderfully varied career in comics! Todd has collaborated with many of the biggest names in the biz […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Russ Heath will receive The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this years Rueben awards. Russ Heath may be best known for his stunningly authentic work in DC Comics? war titles such as G.I. Combat, Our Army at War, and Star Spangled War Stories, but the versatile artist […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond writes an informative piece on creating art with someone’s likeness without infringing on copyright or the person’s right of publicity.He writes: Doing a piece of caricature art of a famous individual or a cast of a TV show or movie and then attempting to sell reproductions of that art can […]
Goldderby.com looks at the competition for animated features vying for an Oscar this year. No animated feature has won more than two categories and never best picture. This year, the feature with the best odds: Frozen. Frozen has a good shot at tying the record of two category wins in Best Animated Feature and Best […]
Thanks goes out to Tom Falco who is this week’s sponsor. Tom is the creator of the comic Tomversation. Tom has been doing comics and illustrations for 30 years and his work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and online such as the Miami Herald, Huffington Post, Examiner and Webcomic Alliance. He is also the […]
Scott Bateman’s infographic on the recent cold spell that he posted on his Tumblr site last Friday ended up in USA Today yesterday – kind of. The infographic that ran in USA Today was cleaned up (language), but essentially left intact (see below). The incident was reported by Jim Romensko. USA Today’s editor-in-chief David Callaway […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has added a new character to the line up – a girl with the smarts to outwit Edison. The character’s name is Katie Franklin character and she’s appeared in months past, but sounds like she’ll become more of a regular.From The Behind the Scenes blog:We’ve been […]
Funny video snippet from For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston during a 1995 Festival of Cartoon Art talk. The question she tries to answer in 2 minutes is if comics are art.
Graham Nolan, who has been the artist behind Rex Morgan MD for 14 years has stepped away from the strip to concentrate on other projects and has passed the duties to Terry Beatty. Terry has been the artist for King Feature’s The Phantom since January of 2012 and he’ll continue to draw the iconic feature.Terry’s […]
What a great tattoo by Russian tattoo artist Alina Fokina.