Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler received a cease and desist letter from Franklin Covey telling him he’s infringed on their 7 habits trademark (made popular by Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”). Howard has a long running parody called “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates,” which Franklin Covey felt infringed on […]
Back in December, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly recently spoke at a TED conference dedicated to women. Her talk was about using cartooning to tackle “global issues with humor, intelligence and sarcasm.” The video wasn’t available back then, but is now. Here it is:
Mike Luckovich takes a look at our national family reunion.On one level, this story isn’t particularly shocking. We already knew that Oprah didn’t grow up on a silk pillow, and these things do happen.On the other hand, it comes hard on the heels of the story of the woman who discovered she’d been kidnapped […]
In a word… awesome.Via Mike Lynch.
Tom Racine continues with his video podcasting. This time he’s interviewed Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli. Join me and Mark Tatulli, brilliant writer and artist behind the syndicated strips “Lio” and “Heart of the City.” We talk about his techniques, how blazingly fast he creates his comics (it’ll make you sick), […]
Tom Spurgeon points out that Malaysian cartoonist Zunar has joined the cartoon Movement.Tom writes:This is particularly great for those of us selfish enough to want to see more of Zunar’s broader perspectives on international affairs as opposed to some of the caricature-based material he’s done within his own country. Zunar is perhaps best known for […]
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles ran a cartoon caption contest that netted nearly 2,000 entries. What I was looking for was an entry that took some portion of the drawing and teased out from that a thought-provoking caption that seemed to belong in the cartoon. Humor always a big plus. The winning caption seemed, […]
SuperF**kers, Johnny Boo and Dragon Puncher creator James Kochalka has been named Vermont’s first Cartoonist Laureate. Like Vermont?s poet laureate, the cartoonist laureate is a person whose primary residence is Vermont, whose work manifests a high degree of excellence, who has produced a critically acclaimed body of work, and who has a long association with […]
Doonesbury uses this narrative technique better than anybody in the business — ramp it up just enough to show how silly it is, but not to the point where it no longer reflects the original thought.By using Mike-watching-television rather than Roland-interviewing-speaker, Trudeau avoids having to depict Congressman Shuler, who has indeed said he plans to […]
Steve Niles on the current comic climate and how to make it better.It’s not going to be easy. We have to figure out new ways to get material out to the public, learn new ways to reach and sell directly to fans. We’re going to have to be creative, supportive and very DIY sometimes, but […]
From Mike Rhode writing for Washington City Paper: As Steve Conley notes, he’s done it all. He started with a science fiction Web comic (before they were called that), moved it into a comic book, switched to doing an online political comic strip, drew a few licensed comic books including an excellent Star Trek series, […]
Two Ugandan jouranlists were arrested and later released pending unspecified charges for running a cartoon of President Yoweri Museveni on the cover of their magazine. The cartoon depicted the president with a large knife about to cut a cake shaped like Uganda. The accompanying headline, “Uganda at 48. Museveni at 24. Where next?” The journalists […]
Brian Truitt over at USA Today looks at tomorrow’s issue of the Fantastic Four (which I believe is released today due to the media/fan interest). The issue concludes a story-line that ends with the death of one of the Fantastic Four. Tom Brevoort, the book’s editor and Marvel Comics’ senior vice president of publishing, is […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s nominees for the Academy Awards. Here are the cartoon/animation related category nominees:Best Animated Short Film Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang Let’s Pollute A Geefwee […]
Back when the NBC-Leno-Conan debacle was unfolding a grass roots effort fanned out through the web behind a “I’m with Coco” avatar. From Huffington Post comes news that Corey Pandolph cartoonist for The Elderberries, Toby, Robot Satan and Barkeater Lake has created an iconic image of Keith Olbermann.From the Huffington Post Maybe Keith Olbermann doesn’t […]