Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon profiles Tom The Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling (real name Ken Fisher) for his Sunday Interview.TOM SPURGEON: We tend to link cartoonists to their primary venue — “comic book artist” or “strip cartoonist” — but it strikes me that you don’t have a lot of company doing exactly what you do, […]
Frank Cho has posted news that two new Liberty Meadows collections are coming out this year. In June look for the first of three of “Liberty Meadows Sunday Collection.” Book two fill follow later in the fall.
The Hair Balls blog with the Houston Press has posted a round up of “What if other comic strips took on the sonogram bill?”A few papers pulled the comic for the week, opting to run older strips in its place. We applaud those who stood firm, and we applaud Trudeau — never one to shy […]
A really good interview over at Slate by Emily Bazelon with Garry Trudeau over the dust up over this week’s abortion series. The whole Interview is worth the time to read for a good insider perspective to the controversy. Here’s a bit from a question about how Doonesbury competes with shows like SNL and The […]
Hefei University of Technology has developed software that uses facial recognition to analyze movies to produce a comic book based on the movie.Developed at the Hefei University of Technology, in China, the clever tech will first of all analyse a film, identify the characters via facial recognition, and then start taking screen-grabs of the action. […]
Next Media Animation has posted an dramatized animation explaining the controversy created by this week’s Doonesbury. Contains great scenes of Garry Trudeau busting out a can o’ whoop a– (doink!, boink! and yoink!) on Rick Perry and others.
Mandrake the Magician, the comic strip created by Lee Falk in 1934, is making its way to the big screen. According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has picked up the rights with the hopes to remake it much like it did for Sherlock Holmes.
This week’s much censored Doonesbury isn’t the first time the strip’s creator Garry Trudeau has delved into the heated debate on abortion. Back in 1985, he did a week series on the topic but it never got to the newspapers because his syndicate felt it would be “deeply harmful to the feature.”Garry has now posted […]
Ollie and Quentin creator Piers Baker is on to other creative endeavors after ending his strip at the end of last year. In a blog post last Friday he shows off a bit of his work with Doodle-Ads.I’m enjoying work as much as ever with the bonus of actually earning some money for a change! […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looks at the impact and politics of Doonesbury’s comic strip this week.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I’ve been tracking the list of newspapers that are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury, have moved it to their editorial page, or some other variation (dropping select dates; reprinting all of them this weekend, etc.). So far 57 papers have pulled the strips. So the unasked question now is if Garry Trudeau has lost […]
The Poughkeepsie Journal has posted ALL of this week’s Doonesbury for viewing/download. Now you can read them all in one sitting just like the newspaper editors did and decide if it should run, move to another section (editorial page) or ask for alternatives. I thought Thursday’s was a bit jarring for normal newspaper comic fare […]
The Republican (MA) interviewed Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price for their prominent women in the Pioneer Valley series.What have been some of the obstacles? The deadline, seven comic strips a week. You have to build up your creative muscle to keep pumping them out. And when it becomes your vocation, versus your calling, gone […]
The following papers have announced (or are mentioned in news articles as having announced) that they have pulled this week’s Doonesbury regarding Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion.Papers who are pulling the series: The Missoulian The Standard-Examiner (Utah) The Herald, (SC) The Press of Atlantic City ( NJ) […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury is being pulled in about a dozen newspapers this week over the topic of Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion. According to Reuters, The Oregonian said it was pulling it because it “went over the line of good taste and humor” and The LA Times […]