From The Times Union: This got us thinking about…movies adapted from the funny pages.Draw on your memory banks for the latest quiz. 1. Penny Singleton played Blondie Bumstead … based on the long-running comic strip by Chic Young. In the 1960s, she turned to cartoons themselves, voicing one of the main characters in what animated […]
Lists and Best-Ofs will be coming fast and furious. Here’s a few before the rush.Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2021Do you use Instagram? Or does Instagram use you? Whatever the answer is, let’s hope that it results in personal gain for Mark Zuckerberg—he’s had a tough time recently and really deserves a win. cartoon […]
The L. A. Times gets letters about 9 Chickweed Lane © Brooke McEldowneyThe Los Angeles Times received hundreds of letters from fans of their comics page about dropping the 9 Chickweed Lane strip, and printed a few of them. They prefaced the letters with further explanation for the drop.To our readers: We gave the decision […]
Happy 90th Birthday to animator and director Gerald Potterton.Most famous for directing the animated Heavy Metal movie from 1981, Gerald also animated cartoons and directed live action films.From Wikipedia: Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts […]
Fans of Clifford The Big Red Dog are upset about the live-action movie since they saw CGI Clifford in the newly released movie teaser.Fans say Clifford is the size of a monster and the shade of red is all wrong.Clifford looks weird I don’t like it, why is it realistic clifford is already drenched in […]
Small Newspapers and Freelance CartoonistsSmall Market Sports © Bill CharbonneauDarren Johnson on getting cartoons for small newspapers: Still, when I started publishing newspapers 11 years ago – after working at other publications – I imagined that a cartoonist would be important to this hoped-for media empire. I did an Internet search and found a young […]
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and will hit theaters early next month.https://youtu.be/4loOtFz–J0Today Disney released the official trailer (above).Here The Oregonian previews the movie, shot on location in Portland, Oregon.
Now playing in the local Bijou Theater are some movies that would seem custom-made for advertising in a comic strip format. That supposes movie companies spend money on print advertising these days. In the past comic strips were used to promote movies, though I don’t want to imply that it was a frequent occurrence.Elsewhere on this […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on […]
Among the properties Disney gained when it bought the film and TV assets of 21st Century Fox earlier this year was the rights to Flash Gordon.In development for years, without movement, as a live-action movie it has now been turned over to Taika Waititi and is planned as an animated film.Mike Fleming, Jr. for Deadline […]
First look at the animated Addams Family movie! Courtesy MGM and Behind The Thrills comes a peek at the upcoming (next year) animated movie feature of Charles Addams classic creation. Warning: link contains an earworm! Jules Feiffer Has Never Been HappierFeiffer expresses great enthusiasm for his latest project, which is something he never imagined would actually […]
Today 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios released a new trailer for THE PEANUTS MOVIE!. It’s the most extensive peek into this anticipated release (November 6, 2015). My first reaction to the announcement was of worry that this was going to totally wreck any positive feelings for the original Peanuts. As more of these […]
We finally get a peek at Pixar’s Inside Out which is due out next June. Looks like a funny premise.
Today, Blue Sky Studios released the official trailer for The Peanuts Movie. I loved the first teaser they put out. This trailer has me a bit more worried about the film. Despicable Me didn’t feature the minions enough. Once the studio saw how likable and entertaining they were, Despicable Me 2 featured them too much. […]
Marvel announced they’re increasing their super-hero releases from two films a year to three. DC Comics has previously said they’re releasing 10 films in the coming years.From Business Week:Then, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, Marvel released a plan for a slate of nine new superhero movies featuring the Avengers, Thor, and a Guardians of the Galaxy […]