The Adventures of Tintin is set to hit theaters this December. The 3D motion capture movie is produced by legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Posters (see below) have been released as well as the trailer. Tintin is based on the be French comic by Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907?1983). It is one of […]
Kory Merritt’s The Lost Side of Suburbia has moved been promoted from Comics Sherpa to GoComics last week after a little more than a year on Comics Sherpa. Kory, who was the 2007 John Locher Award winner and a finalist in the Comic Strip Superstar Contest, say he wanted to try something new, so he […]
I LOVE Pixar films. My stomach knotted up after watching this trailer – and not in the good way.
Politico reporter Chris Frates had a front row seat to a heated email exchange between Doonebury creator Garry Trudeau and lobbyist Lanny Davis over last week’s storyline involving lobbyists for Arab dictators. Last Friday’s strip specifically mentioned Davis as one who is representing the reprehensible Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo. Davis criticized the cartoon in Politico […]
A Washington state man paid The Olympian $190 to drop Doonesbury for a day so he could run his own comic strip to pop the question. The title of the strip was “Happy Birthday Sandra Kay” and in the last panel he wrote, “As a cartoonist, this seems like the most natural place to ask […]
New York Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo has passed away from complications to pneumonia last night according to the Daily News. “My father is a lasting legend to New York, and to New York sports,” said Gallo’s son, Greg. “He will be forever thought of as a great cartoonist for the Daily News, […]
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists.Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation.Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the only non-altie […]
Jeff Knurek is the cartoonist behind the Jumble puzzle. Jesse Morton has posted a video of him drawing and explaining his work with the puzzle.Untitled from Jesse Morton on Vimeo.
Chris Sparks who is heading up the Team Cul de Sac project raising money for a Parkinson’s cure has announced that they are extending the deadline for cartoonists still wanting to contribute to the cause. He writes:We have extended the deadline until June 17th! we did this for a couple of reasons. Lee Salem, Caty […]
The Cartoonist Studio’s Cartoon Contest has yielded a winner. Daniel Beyer is the winner and takes home a development contract with Creators Syndicate. Daniel isn’t new to cartooning. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Reader’s Digest and he has a single panel feature on Comics Sherpa called Long Story Short.Daniel works in […]
Yesterday’s post regarding Bill Watterson’s Mark Twain cartoons caught the eye of Nevin Martell, the author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (my review of Nevin’s book). He passes a long a few more of the cartoons that he’s collected. He notes that the […]
From Jesse Jordan:Back in ’94 when Pulp Fiction was all the rage in L.A. some drawings leaked out of Film Roman. I don’t know who did these, but they’re great. Though I’ve got thirty or so of this series these are my favorite.I’m pleading ignorant as well. I dropped out of The Simpsons when my […]
Artist and photographer Thomas Haller Buchanan has posted several cartoons by Bill Watterson that were published during those brief months while Bill was the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Post. I’ve seen a lot of his earlier editorial cartoons, this is the first I’ve seen of a thematic collection.
Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist on Nancy announces that he’s publishing a first Today’s Dogg collection. The book will be in traditional print but also in digital formats with a portion of the proceeds to be donated to pet organizations. The-ebook version will feature a recording and video of “Take Me Home” a song written by Guy […]
Today is May 4th – ‘May the fourth be with you’ day. Not sure how big of a deal it is. Google did not change their logo to commemorate it, but Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted one of his Richards Poor Almanacs cartoons featuring “The Handy Condensed Version of Star Wars Revenge […]