Filed under: Comic Strips

What a great tattoo by Russian tattoo artist Alina Fokina.

Lego has produced a Lego set replicating The Simpsons home. It’s 2500+ pieces and features the Simpson family and Ned Flanders.

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has been invited to give a “last lecture” at Stanford at the end of this month. It won’t be Garry’s last speaking engagement ever. The annual lecture is a tribute to Stanford Law School Professor Harry Rathbun who gave a yearly “last lecture” for two nearly decades. Garry’s speech is entitled, […]

Entertaining five minute piece where Bizarro creator Dan Piraro recounts the process of creating a comic in the pre-digital era.

From the LA Times: DreamWorks Animation SKG is premiering its first computer tablet, one that will teach kids how to be their own animators. The Glendale-based creator of the “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” movies has partnered with El Segundo-based Fuhu Inc. to create DreamTab, billed as a state-of-the-the art tablet designed for kids. […]

Great news from Comics Alliance: Rocky and Bullwinkle have had a few comics series to their names over the past few decades (often with the two characters? names transposed in the title), from publishers including Dell, Gold Key, Charlton and Marvel. But never before have the characters gotten a series with the creative pedigree of […]

I just looked at the list of top grossing movies in 2013. Interestingly five of the ten have some sort of connection to comics, graphic novels, animation or comic books. Rank Title 2013 Gross 1 Iron Man 3 $408,992,272 2 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $400,088,390 3 Despicable Me $367,860,095 4 Man of Steel $291,045,518 […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: He’s baaaaack!  Doug Adams, author of “The Music of Lord of the Rings” who graced the halls of Tall Tale Radio back in 2010 in episode 98, joins me again to talk […]

Michael Maslin: Michael Maslin : You know, it?s funny, but I realized this evening while looking up your work on The New Yorker?s database that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of your first appearance in the magazine, the issue dated December 13, 1993. What was that moment like for you, selling that first drawing, and […]

Matthew Sparkes at The Telegraph: Google has been awarded a patent for what it humourlessly calls “a system for electronically creating comic strip communications” which can be integrated into social networking websites and apps. The search giant noticed that many sites were offering an automated way to create short comic strips, allowing users to enter […]

Shia LaBeouf, who has admitted to using dialog and direct adaptation from a Daniel Clowes comic written in 2007, has taken to the skies above Los Angeles yesterday to apologize to the artist. The skywriting (see photo above) was commissioned and tweeted by LaBeouf. The Guardian notes that Daniel lives in San Francisco Bay Area […]

I had the chance to talk to Scott before the holiday hiatus. I’m still working on getting our conversation transcribed – but we talked about systems vs goals. Using systems rather than goals might not be for everyone – some people are just goal driven (and that’s a good thing), but others may not have […]

Much thanks goes out to John Rose for sponsoring the blog last week. Unfortunately, with the server issues, his week was less than ideal and for that I apologize. I’m going to keep up his ads for a couple more days. If you get a chance, click on through and check out his new book […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Mark Anderson of Andertoons.com is here to talk about how you take your talent for cartooning and market it to the world to make a living!  His stuff has been in Forbes, […]

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Maria Scrivan of the comic “Half Full” joins me to talk about her path to syndication, her most excellent magazine comics work for Parade and MAD, her week-long stint filling in for […]