San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Breen wanted to create a series of cartoons on the topic of the BP gulf oil spill. To take the art to a higher level, The cartoonist contacted two AP reporters in the Gulf, Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau, and asked them to direct him to a location where […]
This is not only a funny comic, but the 3,000th Sheldon strip. Dave Kellett has been doing this very literate, very funny web comic since 1999 and has built it up to the point where he makes a living from his work, which is, after all, the material goal of spending all that time at […]
This news item is coming from Pixar Planet – an official Pixar blog – so I’m going to take this item out of the rumor category and put it in the “probably true” category. Pixar is working on releasing a 3D version of Ratatouille. No date is given, but it’s reported that Pixar 3D Supervisor, […]
Eric Powell’s The Goon series is heading to the big screen. The Goon was a self-published cult comic before Dark Horse Comics found it in 2003. The moie is being produced by David Fincher. More information is being released this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con. You can see the trailer below.Movie Trailers – […]
I received an email from Dean Turnbloom explaining that he was sending me his 2008 and 2010 editorial cartooning collections for comparison. I’ve seen, even collected some of the other best of books – do I really need another? Dean’s books are entitled, “Prizewinning Political Cartoons” and as the title suggests these are the national […]
Perhaps a bit too soon to know if there will be a dust-up, but Robert Ariail posted a cartoon on his website last Tuesday depicting South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley wearing a burqa. The first frame reads, ?Nikki Haley: What She Promises.? The picture shows Haley dressed as a beauty queen with the […]
Never mind Dilbert. Sally Forth knows how the business world functions today and writer Francesco Marciuliano has managed to make the characters in the strip human enough that they behave believably. For the past who-knows-how-long, Sally has been trying to persuade the slackers in her department that the company is facing hard decisions, all their […]
A good read from Ted Dawson as he questions the limits of protection, respect, and moral responsibility of copyright. While many countries still permit Work for Hire, which removes a writer or artist’s authorship, other countries enforce what they call Moral Rights. Moral rights protect the creator’s right of attribution to and integrity of her […]
I must be getting lazy this summer. Its been a while since I plugged the latest guests on the Tall Tale Radio podcast. In case you missed it, Tom Racine interviewed Lalo Alcaraz, creator of La Cucaracha, and Adam Huber, creator of the webcomic Bug. I started following Bug a mont or so ago and […]
The LA Times writes how “Hollywood-ized” the San Diego Comic-Con has become. They didn’t care how acclaimed the director, how bright the star, if you didn’t measure up to their very high bar, they would flay you. When the Hollywood power brokers started showing up in the ’90s, the hardcore fans who had been making […]
ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode writes about the recent release of comic-related stamps by the Post Office and how this isn’t a new trend. Check out his column in the Washington City Paper and take the quiz – when was the first instance of a comic on a U.S. stamp? The U.S. Postal Service has just […]
It seems this is the week for cartooning about Annoying Broadcast Practices, and La Cucaracha picks up on a very strange thing, the return of “Dialing for Dollars” without the dollars.Back at the dawn of time, or, at least, in the 1960s and 70s, back when TV stations did more local programming than just the […]
ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode posts the press release from the Library of Congress and points out three cartoonist will be part of the 10th annual National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress. Jeff Smith, Brad Meltzer and Jules Feiffer will among 70 authors on hand for the event on Sep. 25, 2010. Full details […]
Worth noting. The News-Press (Fort Myers, FL) editorial cartoonist Doug MacGregor donated his kidney to a friend five years ago so his friend could live to see his kids graduate from high school. First child graduated a few weeks ago. “It was a proud moment,” Doug said. “One of the greatest days for parents is […]
The Mainichi Daily News reports that Kimihiko Tsukuda, the creator of the longest-running serialized comic strip in Japanese newspapers, has passed away at the age of 80. His comic strip Honobono-kun, dubbed the “Japanese Charlie Brown,” first appeared in newspapers in 1956 and ran through 2007 after Kimihiko fell ill.