Charles Brubaker wrote an interesting piece over at Cartoon Research about the attempts to make The Wizard of Id into an animated TV show. I always considered The Wizard of Id to be one of my big cartooning influence. I always had a thing for Johnny Hart?s dry sense of humor, and I consider Brant […]
Again from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo comes news that Will Roberts interviewed all six of the Six Chix contributors. As far as I know, I can’t think of another radio interview with all six.Give it a listen.
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was interviewed a couple of times this last week. She writes:On Friday I had the pleasure to speak with America?s favorite cowboy humorist Will Roberts. Will is the host of the Will Roberts Weekly Telegram Radio Show, and a huge fan of comics. It?s no surprise he?s got a special […]
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: The epic John Sanford, Director over at Dreamworks Animation, continues! We take some cool questions from Facebook followers, pit famous cartoon characters against one another in deathmatches, talk about John’s […]
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: Welcome to Part 1 of our chat with Dreamworks Animation Director, John Sanford! John directed many episodes of the TV show “Dragons: Riders of Berk,” was co-director on the Disney […]
Someone had to have seen this somewhere in between the design/concept and production stage and said… “let’s see if we can get this into stores before someone notices.”via Robot6
Upcoming Pixar sums up a few rumors regarding Pixar’s fourth installment of their Toy Story series.Morris also mentioned that the film will be a romantic comedy. And that?s not all, the relationship the toys have with children and people will not be explored. Now this is interesting, because we would have to infer that Bonnie?s […]
Monday’s Mother Goose and Grimm paid tribute to 120 years of comic strip history. Mike Peter’s cartoon depicting The Yellow Kid as the “First Comic Standing” surrounded by iconic comic characters such as Dick Tracy, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Dilbert, Zits, For Better or For Worse, Annie, Garfield among others.I […]
I might be suffering from super hero fatigue because I found this mostly uninteresting, but yeah, I’ll probably go see it.What are your thoughts?
Ginger Meggs cartoonist, stand-up comedian and caricaturist Jason Chatfield relates how he ended up creating a caricature of Larry David. I can?t quite explain why, but being insulted by Larry is a great honour. The job came through a fellow New York illustrator and great friend, Ed Steckley. He passed the job on through an agency, knowing full well […]
Speaking of Jason Chatfield and caricatures, he has another great story about how he ended up in the seat of a Parisian caricaturist for a caricature and ended up switching the tables. Or, um, seats. I felt kind of guilty about the whole photo debacle, so wanted to make amends. I walked over and said […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the nominees for the 2014 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. The nominees are New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis and Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price.This is Roz’s first nomination for the Reuben; Stephan has been nominated 52 times (actually, seven); […]
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Kind of like a super hero that just can’t be defeated, Stan Lee Media is filing yet another lawsuit – or in this case an appeal of an earlier loss with the hope of going to the Supreme Court for final resolution.From Robot 6:After losing one lawsuit after another in its eight-year battle for many […]
March 17th will mark the 30th anniversary of Greg Evans’s Luann (see the first comic above). From GoComics:?If time flies when you’re having fun, then I’ve had a blast the past 30 years!? Evans said. ?I feel lucky that I’ve been able to spend nearly half my life doing the thing I love most: creating […]