The Washintonian profiles Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten who is also co-writer of the comic strip Barney & Clyde.Weingarten may also be the best writer in American journalism. He?s the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing twice, once for the violinist story and once for a story about parents […]
CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over another. […]
From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves:“While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the strip, […]
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the […]
The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year.From Michael Cavna:The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnson has been producing a volume of video podcasts (59 so far). It’s a trove of information for all things Lynn Johnson, her strip, and cartooning in general. If you’re in the earlier stages of a career in comics, there is a lot of good information on her […]
The British film archive discovered an episode of “Hungry Hobos” – an animation short by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks dated 1927. It features the Oswald character which is considered by most to be the prototype of Mickey Mouse.Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain’s biggest independent film libraries, said he […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday exhibit will be opening in the Toonseum in Pittsburgh on December 9. The exhibit brings original cartoon art all drawn for the same Sunday (April 11) in 2010. ToonSeum Executive Director Joe Wos says he had to narrow the exhibit down to comics that run locally or he thinks should […]
Congratulations to Melissa DeJesus and Ed Power of MyCage fame for getting their Santa vs Dracula graphic novel funded through Kickstarter. They raised just over $10,000 of their $9,500 goal with 242 donors.
The Center for Cartoon Studies has kicked off their annual donation drive. All donations are tax deductible and there are other options of support such as in-kind donations.
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby.If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the Jack […]
From Stephanie Piro:I’ve been meaning to put my “classic” tale of the Turkey Prince online for Thanksgiving for years. I wrote it in my 20’s and my style has really evolved since then though I still consider this one of my best and favorite works. Here it is finally… I re-wrote the captions because, believe […]
Tim O’Shea talks to Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler to talk about the various projects he’s released including I Thought You Would Be Funnier, a Little Golden Book parody Grandpa Won’t Wake Up co-created Oil and Water. Tim O’Shea: Not many folks can say they’ve won an Eisner, but this year’s was actually […]
From Fantagraphics Books:We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are pleased to offer a new series of mini-comics featuring fascinating, previously-unpublished (or at least way out of print) sketches, drawings and even full stories, which are available for FREE with the purchase of their matching tie-in books, or […]
Michael Cavna is taking votes for the best Comic Strip Of 2011 and best Webcomic of the Year. Head over to his blog to find his handy email address and send him your votes.