Last night was the debut of “Bob’s Burgers” on the Fox Network.The Boston Globe gave it a favorable write-up:“Bob’s Burgers” has a more sharply offbeat sensibility than its more pop-culture rooted Sunday night neighbors, veering between absurd, endearing, and crude – which fits with the avant stand-up stylings of folks like Schaal and Mirman. Some […]

Here’s the run down of the latest changes in the comics that newspapers are running:The Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY) is publishing a local comic described as a Doonesbury-esque strip on “local issues, politics and events regarding the Adirondack Park.” It’s called Parkview. Runs for 10 weeks.Here’s a preview of the first.Here’s a link to where […]

Saturday, I posted a response by Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons regarding that day’s shooting in Tucson that has placed Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital, killed a federal judge and five other individual. David, moments after the shooting on CNN said in part:“The right in Arizona, and I’m speaking very broadly, […]

I don’t think there was ever enough lag time between the announcements of the teams and the playing of the games for a cartoonist to comment on the specific matchups, back when all the games were played in a three-day orgy of college football at New Year’s.Now, Arlo & Janis has the luxury of getting […]

Today’s “Edison Lee” is a good example of why some gags work better on Sunday. The dialog necessary to simply make the joke could be compressed into a daily, but the necessary cuts would seriously undermine the humor. The more expansive Sunday format allows for more give-and-take and a more natural conversation, as well as […]

Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons was interviewed by CNN on the shooting of Congressman Giffords. Daryl Cagle has quotes from the interview:The right in Arizona, and I?m speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state. It?s stunning because Congressman Giffords was a centrist, […]

Yes, African-American James, you should say “oops.” The preferred term is “enslaved person.”Jeff Danziger is only one of many cartoonists who have taken up the topic of a bowdlerized “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” but he’s done the best job of it I’ve seen so far.As it happens, I wasn’t an English or American Lit major […]

While we await for Ruport Murdoch’s The Daily to launch (rumored/reported for January 17), Google is making noise that it isn’t going to let Apple own the digital subscription plans for newspapers and magazines apps. News organizations such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal currently have free iPad apps but are free for […]

Jim Romenesko reports over on Poynter an email from Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth that they’ve returned to profitability in 2010.From that email: That said, we accomplished a tremendous amount last year and have strong results to show for it. I committed to Don and to the Board that we would return to profitability by […]

The next Ice Age (Ice Age: Contintal Drift) movie is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. Here’s the animated short teaser now in theaters:

James Sturm, co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies, was featured twice today. Tom Spurgeon posted an extensive interview with Jim about his work, the school, and his new book Market Day. Next the Star (Malaysia) features James in an article entitled: Getting to know cartoonist James Sturm – covers the same topics in a […]

Interesting exhibit running in Boston entitled, “All Works Guaranteed Stolen” showcases “work that ranges from clever takeoffs and pastiches of existing art and entertainment to pieces that merely mimic, modify, or even just physically enlarge their source material.” “The right of artists to use the pieces of their society in their art is being significantly […]

I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson:Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others we […]

I’ve written about the troubles of the Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man before. It’s now fodder for The Onion.A quote from their article: Spider-Man is supposed to swing down to the stage and deactivate a nuclear bomb, but his wires got tangled up, and by the time he got there and remembered the disarm code, it […]

  Cul de Sac takes on a new direction of sorts, putting Petey instead of Alice at the center of a story arc. Richard Thompson has created such a full and lively cast of classmates around Alice that Petey’s social life can kind of sneak up on you. I think it’s kind of sneaking up […]