Earlier this month, Bobby Bryant of The State wrote about how the recession is creeping into story-lines of Brenda Starr, Doonesbury, Dilbert and Mary Worth. The latest piece on the topic comes from Maclean’s (Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine) who note economic jokes in Blondie, Hi and Lois, Archie, Beetle Bailey, Wizard of […]
This week MAD magazine publishes its 500th edition after 57 years. MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond tells us what to expect this week: The editors and staff wanted to have issue 500 contain as many of the artists and writers who helped MAD get to issue 500 as possible, so MAD took a sort of […]
Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe is the next comic to be brought to life through animation. This animation studio this time is Powerhouse Animation out of Austin, TX.Pooch Cafe is is the last of many comic features on YouTube. Previous announcements include Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac, Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater, Mark Tatulli Lio, Jim Borgman […]
Comic Strips» B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni is heading up a new program called “Mason on the Move” to encourage elementary students in his area to eat healthy and avoid obesity. Mason will use stories of his own childhood dealing with obesity and two new cartoon characters he created for a DVD to inspire kids to […]
Every Pixar feature film is accompanied by a short film that plays before the main feature. Various film blogs are reporting details about the short film “Partly Cloudy” that will be released with “Up.” The short will be centered around a gray cloud name Gus. From the animationblog.com comes this synopsis. Everyone knows that the […]
» From a reader of the Orlando Sentinel comes a report that the paper moved their comic section out of the features section and into the middle of the classified section. I can only presume the paper is trying to drive more readers into the classifieds to maintain (increase?) the value of said ads.» The […]
Ted Rall, who worked as the Editor of Acquisitions and Development at United Media has been laid off last Thursday. Ted tells me that eight other individuals were also let go and that his responsibilities would probably be reassigned to other people. Ted was brought in for the position back in 2006. During his term […]
The Winners of this year’s Stumptown Awards were announced over the weekend. The winners are:Outstanding Art: Spike – Templar, Arizona Outstanding Debut: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Design: Jeffrey Ellis – Historyonics Outstanding D.I.Y.: E. Stackhouse & N. Shahan – Brazilianoir Outstanding Small Press: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Writing: Spike […]
If you haven’t spent an afternoon flipping through the XKCD archives, you haven’t truly lived. Okay, that’s kind of dramatic, but only a little. It has just been announced that XKCD artist Randall Munroe will be publishing his first book of compiled work. Randall Munroe is a webcomic pioneer and remains one of the most […]
Benita Epstein is the latest cartoonist to join the Six Chix comic strip, replacing Kathryn LeMieux, who is leaving the feature to pursue other interests. Benita’s first strip was in yesterday’s paper and future daily work will be featured on Fridays (Sundays are rotated amongst the six women).“Kathryn LeMieux’s contribution to Six Chix over the […]
This year’s nominees for the Stumptown Trophy Awards has been released. The winners will be announced at this year’s The Stumptown Comics Fest 2009 in Portland OR this weekend. This is the festival’s 5th year.Nominees for Outstanding Artmiriam libicki TABLE 51 – jobnik!, fierce ease jason janicki TABLE 121 – Wayfarer terrytoledo – Sid Love […]
Despite past animosity on this site, there is sort of a big deal going on at PvP with guest artist Karl Kerschl doing today’s strip. I don’t care what side of the print/webcomics fence you’re on, this strip is amazing.If this post kicks off any kind of conversation it should be about how mainstream, print […]
ComicsGo check out The Daily Cross Hatch’s full audio and video of a recent discussion featuring notables Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, and Gary Groth.Editorial Cartooning» Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger, will be one of three artists featured at the Winston County Library on Saturday.Comic Strips» Over on Tall Tales Radio, Mark Tatulli, one […]
Dean Koontz, the suspense-thriller best-selling author has produced his first graphic novel. The graphic novel is entitled, “In Odd We Trust” and is about a young man named Odd Thomas who has a secret – he can see dead people. Artist Queenie Chan provides the manga art style.From Examiner.com: The pacing of the novel is […]
» A Cincinnati Enquirer reader emailed me to tell me that their paper cut their Sunday comics to four pages. They’ve squished six comics onto the front page of the comic section: Zits, Peanuts, For Better or For Worse, Baby Blues, Blondie and Hi and Lois.» Michael Cavna blogs that the Washington Post has reinstated […]