Columbia University Libraries has announced they have acquired the archives of famed MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. The donation will include “artwork for Esquire and Playboy magazines, notebooks of ideas for Humbug and Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal, press clippings, tracings for cartoons in The Moshiach Times, fan mail, photocopies of strips never offered for […]
Rob Tornoe, writing for Editor & Publisher, has an interesting read about the current state of newspaper syndication. He confirms what most of us have observed in the last few years – new comic launches are few and far between. It’s a good read with a lot of information on the syndicates’ offerings both in […]
President Obama came to the rescue in Tuesday’s The Amazing Spider-Man after the famed web-slinger needed to board a plane but couldn’t get past TSA agents while wearing his mask. The TSA agents offered to escalate Spidey’s request to higher authorities. Apparently TSA agents have access to President Obama for such cases as masked super […]
Over on Listverse.com, someone has posted their top 10 Greatest Syndicated Comic Strips In American History. Their picks: 10. Krazy Kat 9. Liberty Meadows 8. Garfield 7. Li’l Abner 6. Opus 5. Doonesbury 4. Peanuts 3. Pogo 2. The Far Side 1. Calvin and HobbesYou can head over and read the justifications for each of […]
I took in Despicable Me 2 last Wednesday. So did a lot of other folks. The animated sequel was the top feature film for the five-day Fourth of July weekend taking in an estimated $142.1 million. As a comparison, Toy Story 3 took in $141 million its opening weekend. As far as my thoughts on […]
Neil Gaiman has penned the prequel to his acclaimed comic Sandman. The new series comes out in October and is drawn by JH Williams III.From The Guardian: The storyline describes what happened to Dream before the events of the first ever comic, in which he was imprisoned by an Aleister Crowley-ish Satanist, Roderick Burgess, in […]
Ed Koren has been doing cartoons for the New Yorker for over 50 years. Below is a video by Stuck in Vermont.Via: Mike Lynch
Michael Jantze is back at the drawing board and ready to knock out a special edition book of his comic strip The Norm.Here’s part of his pitch on Indiegogo: “Knocked Out Loaded” is a story I pitched and sold to DC Comics in 1990 – along with another graphic novel titled “Rave On” – but […]
A great talk by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about constructing humor in the New Yorker and in cartooning in general.
The Upcoming Pixar blog gives away a few Easter Eggs discovered in the new Monsters U feature film. Here’s one: Pizza Planet Truck: Since its prominent role in the first Toy Story, the Pizza Planet delivery truck has shown up in every Pixar movie barring The Incredibles. In Monsters University, it can be seen next […]
Liberty Meadows creator and comic book artist Frank Cho reports that for three days he was suspended from Facebook for the second time after he posted a sketch of a topless “Jungle Queen hanging onto a flying Pterodacty”.From his blog:Well, it happened again. Facebook lowered the boom on me. They censored my art and suspended […]
Congratulations to Tom Richmond whose blog, Tom’s MAD blog which turns seven this week. Well?belated birthday. This blog began seven years ago yesterday (I would have posted then, but it was ?Sketch o?the Week? Day!). Over 5.7 million page views (best day ever- 22,199 views), 2,570 total posts, over 9,300 comments, 343 Sunday Mailbag questions […]
Amazon has posted their “Best Books of the Year So Far 2013: Comics & Graphic Novels” for the first six months of the year.Here’s their list: Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon, by Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido and others (Marvel) Solo: The Deluxe Edition, by various (DC Comics) Thor: God of […]
Pixar’s Monsters University took home an estimated $82 million beating out Brad Pitt’s World War Z ($66 million). The Guardian reports that this is the second largest weekend opening for a Pixar film.I don’t think I’m going to see this one in theaters. Did any of you see it? Is it worth the price for […]
This week, Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price is turning over her strip to five guest cartoonists. Suzy Becker, Rina Piccolo, Maria Scrivan, Jen Sorensen, and Mo Willems. If your paper doesn’t carry Rhymes with Orange, you can check out the guest strips on Hilary’s website: Today’s guest cartoonist is Maria.Correction: Maria is the guest […]