Santa vs. Dracula, the graphic novel by Melissa Dejesus (Illustrator) and Ed Power (Author), will soon be available on Amazon.com in October. From the Amazon description: VAMPIRE VS ELF! WEREWOLF VS REINDEER! FRANKENSTEIN VS SNOWMAN! When Count Dracula, Igor, Mr. Hyde, and their forces of darkness the North Pole to obtain Ol’ Saint Nick’s ability […]
Bone and RASL creator Jeff Smith described his webcomic that will debut before Thanksgiving: Two million years ago was the very first fantastic ice age, and Africa was in a drought all the early animal, all the early hominids, all the apes, all the creatures were going extinct because their jungles were disappearing. It was […]
The Pew Research Center has released a study on the mobile device usage in the US. Here’s their summary:Nearly two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners now use their phone to go online, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project. We call them ?cell internet users? and define […]
Torsten Adair of Comics Beat is suggesting taking “normal” single panel cartoons and switching the captions with “unusual” gag panels. The inspiration for this is a 1983 oops in the Dayton Daily News that accidentally (twice) switched captions from Dennis the Menace with the Farside. You can see the results over on Dangerous Minds.For this […]
Can’t wait to see this book. Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic is Mark Tatulli’s first graphic novel.Here’s a teaser for the book:
NPR’s Scott Simon interviews Art Spiegelman who has a retrospective book coming out this week called Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and ScrapsFrom NPR: It’s axiomatic now that comics have gone from being kids’ stuff to, in some cases, adults only. These days, comics are recognized as a real artistic form, one that can […]
Kudos to New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly for showcasing the growing number of women in comics.From Michael Cavna’s Comic Riffs blog: “I was given the opportunity ahead of time to select the presenters for each award to be given,” Donnelly tells Comic Riffs, “and I decided to choose all cartoonists who are women. More and […]
GoComics continues to build an impressive list of comics on the internet. Debuting today is Maria Scrivan’s Half Full.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, American Psychiatric Association and National Alliance on Mental Illness released a joint statement expressing disapproval of a talent search contest conducted by DC Comics that involved depicting the Harley Quinn as attempting suicide. The contest also created backlash online as some suggested the script was sexualizing suicide by depicting […]
Lots of talk about smart watches with new products from Samsung, Sony, Qualcomm coming this fall. And of course, every news story has to mention the comic Dick Tracy and his iconic walkie-talkie watch. But as NPR reports, the smart watch existed before Dick Tracy’s 1946 debut.From NPR quoting Marc Weber, a curator at the […]
Yahoo reports: The movie theater is one of the few remaining sanctums where you’re largely safe from the annoying glow of smartphones and tablets. Well, at least until Disney re-releases “The Little Mermaid” on September 13. The studio is actively encouraging kids to bring along iPads and play games while the movie is showing on […]
The world’s largest comic collection on the move.The largest comic collection in the world has been successfully moved to its new home in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Having just moved to a new home, I can appreciate to a small degree the logistics, coordination, planning and hard work this effort must have […]
The BBC is wondering why there are no female superhero movies despite woman making up 52% of all movie ticket sales. From the BBC: 2013 has seen Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Adams and Natalie Portman (all Oscar-winning or Oscar-nominated actresses) playing roles in three major superhero films; Paltrow in Iron Man, Adams in Superman and Portman […]
I’m not big on reality TV shows, but this one episode would have hooked me. Ink Masters is a Celebrity Apprentice type format pitting 16 tattoo artists against each other for a chance to win $100,000. This last episode was “Skulls and Villains” in which the artists had to tattoo comic villains on live subjects. […]
King Features’s The Archivist blog notes that Bill Hoest’s The Lockhorns has turned 45 years old this week. There have been unhappy spouses in comic strips before, from the ever-bickering Greens in MR. & MRS. to the battle-strewn, married life of Jiggs and Maggie in BRINGING UP FATHER, but THE LOCKHORNS is different. Other comic […]