A jury says DreamWorks Animation did not steal the idea of Kung Fu Panda from Terence Dunn who claimed he pitched the movie about a “spiritual kung-fu fighting panda bear” back in 2001.At one point, Dunn claimed he was entitled to a percentage of the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the films. […]
Hard to argue with this logic.Rob Miller writes pop culture commentary for the Norwich Bulletin
Anne Hambrock who works on her husband’s strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has announced that she’s organized a new comic festival called the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. The project started when Carthage College Gallery Director inquired about bringing John Read’s “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” to Kenosha and Anne opted to […]
IO9’s Cyriaque Lamar caught up with Bone creator Jeff Smith to talk about his 20th anniversary and RASL. When did you know you could keep going with the series? The first issue of Bone shipped 20 years ago this month, so this is our twentieth anniversary. I think it was really when we made the […]
The Om Nom character from the iPhone game Cut the Rope is getting it’s own digital comic. The hero of the game, the little green candy muncher Om Nom is getting his own digital comic. The comics will be designed by Ape Entertainment and are set to hit the Apple App Store in late August. […]
King Features Syndicate has rolled out a new design for their corporate website. The new design is a great improvement over their older site. Better navigation and layout.Those hoping to read their favorite comics on the site however will be disappointed. You still need to subscribe to their DailyInk or download their DailyInk app for […]
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts may hit the big screen. Hollywood Reporter reports Patrick and his brother Robert have been hired to write the script for a feature-length film to be released through 20th Century Fox.
Heritage Auctions is selling of an original Spider-Man #49 Cover Art by John Romita Sr. and expects to bring $100,000 or more when it hits the auction block this August.The cover was originally written in 1967 and features Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture.Current bidding is at $60,000.
The new Captain America movie opens up this weekend. Jennifer Moline over at Inspiredology has posted 17 artistic interpretations of the Captain America character. Here’s one of my favorites from the list by Chris Uminga.Other include: Olly Moss, Tyler Stout, pnutink, Skottie Young, Konjour, Mattia Sensi, John Drogalis, Eric Tan, Ed Foychuk, Danny Wake, “wlkr”, […]
From the Wall Street Journal:Borders Group Inc. said it would liquidate after the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain failed to receive any offers to save it. Borders, which employs about 10,700 people, scrapped a bankruptcy-court auction scheduled for Tuesday amid the dearth of bids. It said it would ask a judge Thursday to approve a sale […]
title: Bill Kellogg launches ComicsShowcase.comBill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy behind Tundra and the new Ink Bottle Syndicate has launched a new website called ComicsShowcase.com “where comics fans can go to view strips they might not otherwise see.” Bill writes, [Comics Showcase] is different from the other sites like Comics Sherpa, etc. in that the cartoonists […]
Alex Hallatt is using her strip Arctic Circle to bring attention to the environmental issue of fracking. Fracking is the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas which is then collected. Environmentalists are concerned that the process is contaminating water and causing other […]
Interesting presentation by Lynn Johnston regarding her strip For Better or For Worse that she gave at the Charles M. Schulz museum this spring.For more insights into her strip, she’s posting notes (think footnotes) to each daily comic on her website.
Shaenon Garrity has posted a nice concise history of webcomics over on The Comics Journal. She breaks it up into five eras: 1985-1992: The Stone Age, 1993-1995: The Bronze Age, 1996-2000: The Singularity, 2001-2006: The Age of Sh– Getting Real, and 2007-Present: The Age of This Whole App Thing.
Worth 25 minutes of your time today.Not a too shabby life.