Cartoon Contest to Promote PBS Satire Show
According to E&P, Drew Rougier-Chapman has announced a cartooning contest to promote “Party Toons” – a weekly satire show he’s…
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Voting open for Science Idol editorial cartoon contest
The second annual Science Idol editorial cartoon contest is now open for public voting. The contest is sponsored by the…
Miami Herald hold’s “Great Cartoonist Search”
For reasons I’m still trying to uncover, the Miami Herald is holding contest called the “Great Cartoonist Search” contest. The…
Second annual “Science Idol” contest now open
Tom Toles, Garry Trudeau, Dave Coverly have been tapped to judge the second annual “Science Idol” cartoon contest to draw…
Italian cartooning contest looking for more american entrants
Nick Anderson writes in to bring attention to an international humor festival in Tolentino, Italy this summer. The organizers would…
Caption contest announced in Flying McCoys panel
Gary and Glenn McCoy have announced a caption contest in yesterday’s The Flying McCoys comic panel. The panel depicts a space shuttle flying toward an alien mountain that has a gaping mouth (my interpretation). The contest runs through Oct. 27 and can be entered by visiting their web site at www.theFlyingMcCoys.com.
So you think you can ‘toon contest nets 200+ entries
A few weeks ago, I brought you news that while Mike Luckovich was away on vacation, his paper – the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – held a contest called “Think you can do better?” in which they invited their readers to send an editorial cartoon. The results have been posted (registration required) with the winner going to William Warren won with 541 votes (out of 3,158 cast online). Warren just happens to be this year’s John Locher award winnner from Forest Lake University.
Comic Book Challenge winner is announced
Back in June, I pointed out a comic book challenge that was being held in conjunction with the San Diego Comic-Con. The competition was open to anyone who wanted to submit a comic book idea, complete with sample art. All the submissions would be whittled down to the top 50 by Platinum Studios creative and development staff. Those 50 would then pitch their ideas to a celebrity panel (this part was televised) who picked the top three. Those then were presented to the public for a final winner.
“Stone Soup” comes out on top in Eugene, Ore.
“Stone Soup,” drawn by Eugene’s own Jan Eliot, once again reigns supreme in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon. It was…
American Idol type competition for comic book artist to be held
The panel will include Marc Silvestri, founder and chief executive officer of Top Cow Comics, Gale Anne Hurd, producer of over 25 movies including “The Terminator” series, “The Hulk”, and “The Punisher” and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, chairman of Platinum Studios and founder of Malibu Comics, where he discovered and developed “Men In Black” into a billion dollar entertainment franchise. “Men in Black” itself was written a previously unpublished comic book creator, highlighting Rosenberg’s belief in new talent.The top three finalists will appear on NBC-TV 7/39’s “Streetside San Diego” on July 21 to pitch their comic vision to local audiences.
Woman claims Over the Hedge creators may have been influenced by her strip
Like clockwork, every time a successful movie comes out, someone comes out of the woodwork claiming that the movie idea was based on their earlier work and that the creators are plagiarists who are raking in money off of someone else’s idea.According to Minnesota public radio, Moira Manion is a cartoonist from Minnesota who had a comic strip about a fox and a snake living on the edge of suburbia back in in the early 1990’s that was distributed through Argonaut Entertainment…. Despite the hand-written notes of encouragement in their margins, she decided to lay down Franky & Ralph temporarily to pursue other ideas.A few months later, with her suburban streetwise fox and naive rattlesnake still fresh in her head, Manion ran across a notice in a newspaper trade magazine.”It said that coming in October, United Feature Syndicate would be launching a new strip about a streetwise raccoon and a practical, naive turtle who lived in the suburbs because their woods had been destroyed by the suburbs,” Manion says.It was her first notice of a strip called Over the Hedge.
MIT hackes Doonesbury college poll to get win
Universal Press Syndicate: News Release:Despite some digital ballot-box stuffing, or perhaps because of it, MIT has won the poll that asked where Alex Doonesbury should go to college.”A careful check of the applicable rulebook indicates that queering the results was not specifically prohibited,” noted a Friday post on Doonesbury.com, where the poll was conducted. “And by tradition, engineers, hackers, and techfolk will assume that in a problem-solving situation of this nature, there is no box out of which they are not expected to climb.
Lalo Alcaraz issues baby naming contest for illegal immigrants
Lalo Alcaraz, creator of “La Cucaracha” also has a radio show in California which is getting national attention when Lalo advocated a contest for illegal immigrants called “Name Your Baby Lou Dobbs Challenge.”According to the Universal Press Syndicate press release, the challenge is:The challenge is simple enough?the first undocumented immigrant to name their U.S. born child “Lou Dobbs,” before Sept. 16, 2006, will win $500 worth of baby nursery items from participating East Los Angeles merchants supporting the Name Your Baby Lou Dobbs Challenge.
More editorial cartoonist doing caption contests
A while ago, I posted a story on Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer starting a weekly cartoon caption contest….
Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest draws 6 Americans
There have been over 700 entries into the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest – six of the entrants are Americans (and…