This came news to me as I was under the impression that Japan loved their anime and manga regardless of moral biases. From The Comics Journal: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s successful passage last month of legislation targeting manga, anime and video games for vaguely defined “morally offensive” imagery has been recorded in this column, as […]
Other Red Carpet is reporting that Will Smith wants to remake the musical “Annie” and feature his 10-year-old daughter in the title role.
Rob Tornoe reports that editorial cartoonist John Trever is retiring from the Albuquerque Journal after 34 years. You’ve been drawing political cartoons for the Albuquerque Journal since 1976, over 30 years. What made now the time to pull back? I guess I should feel guilty, giving up an editorial cartoonist’s position in this environment, but […]
Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was reprimanded in court for exclaiming, “He’s just a cowardly liar, a terrorist!” Westergaard was attending the trial of Mohammed Geele who was arrested for trying to break into Westergaard’s residence with an axe New Years Day. Geele told the court that he was merely trying to frighten the artist.Mr Westergaard […]
If you remember, back in October I reported that an Idaho middle-school teacher Steven Kutzner had plead guilty to possessing cartoon child porn – including images of characters from “The Simpsons.” Sentencing has been set and Kutzner will spend 15 months in prison, supervised release for three months and participate in sex offender treatment.Idaho Statesman […]
Bug is a relatively new (the archives go back to October, 2009) webstrip that is suddenly generating a lot of buzz. It’s simple and anarchic and thoughtful, which seems to be a trend in strips that generate buzz.I came across it on a list of new strips being considered for some kind of Lucite plaque, […]
The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center will host a new Herblock exhibit entitled From Crayons to Cartoons on Jan. 22. Also featured are former Ledger Independent cartoonists James Mulcahy and John Van Meter. Herb Block worked at the Chicago Daily News before going to the Washington Post in 1946. He worked at The Post under five […]
The ToonSeum is offering a very unique Valentine gift package. They’ve partnered with Church Brew Works for a night of beer tasting and drawing lessons. The more I think about it, I see the brilliance of it. It works for both sides. The men can say, “Honey, let’s take a drawing class to enrich our […]
Entertainment Weekly reports that DreamWorks has signed Robert Downey Jr to voice Mr. Peabody – the genius dog that appeared with Sherman during the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.The cartoons were created in the late 1950s and ’60s, but remained popular for decades, though they may have fallen off the radar for those under 30. The […]
I usually don’t see these types of articles during the non-presidential elections, but The Washington Scene is looking at how editorial cartoonists are caricaturing House Speaker John Boehner. Interviewed: Mike Lester, Taylor Jones, AAEC President Steve Kelley, Chris Weyant, Mike Peters, Steve Brodner and Ann Telnaes.Aside from getting their readers to recognize Boehner, many cartoonists […]
If so moved, learn more at the Journalist Assistance Fund. Sri Lankan cartoonist and political reporter Prageeth Eknelygoda disappeared almost one year ago today. He was last seen leaving the Colombo offices of the political Website Lanka eNews, where he worked, late on the evening of Sunday, January 24, 2010. No one has heard from […]
There are so many reasons to adore today’s Rhymes With Orange that I hardly know where to start.But start here: If you don’t get an extra laugh out of the Don’s name, you have violated the instructions. You forgot the cannoli.The cat, mind you, is a James Bond convention rather than a Godfather or Star […]
From Stephan’s blog: For the first time since the strip began back in 2002, I?m now emerging from my hermit shell and booking a fair number of speaking engagements. I talk about the strip, tell the strange tale of how I went from being a lawyer to a syndicated cartoonist, show a number of readers? […]
Graphic novelist Doug TenNapel has started a webcomic (or web graphic novel) called Ratfist. After making 10 graphic novels I thought it would be a good time to try the medium of the on-line comic. I?ve watched Ethan Nicolle tear the internet apart with AXECOP for the last year and he makes it look so […]
Michael Cavna interviewed San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Breen about his “Living in the Shadows” project. MICHAEL CAVNA: Did you do the reporting for your cartoon, Steve, or was that gathered by other journalists as part of the Union-Tribune’s larger immigration coverage? STEVE BREEN: This cartoon took months of work here and there, but […]