Tuesdays the “Six Chix” cartoonst Margaret Shulock has posted the Six Chix submissions for a division award in this year’s National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards weekend. Piers Baker, creator of Ollie and Quentin has done the same.
Quick congratulations to Canadian editorial cartoonist Brian Gable (The Globe and Mail) for winning this year’s National Newspaper Award. Runners up included Malcolm Mayes (Edmonton Journal), and Terry Mosher (AKA “Aislin”) (the Gazette, Montreal).
Rumors of a Jason Segel written, James Bobin directed Muppets full feature movie appears to be true. Disney says that the new film has officially been given a December 25, 2011 release date. The film, which will also star Segel alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Animal and the rest, will now go up against the […]
Wired magazine takes us behind the scenes of the day by day creation of a Pixar movie (in this case, Toy Story). Day 36 So far, the characters exist only as digital illustrations. Character design has begun. Some are sculpted in clay and scanned. Others are drawn by hand. Later, visual textures-fur, fabric, hair-will be […]
The comic strip may be ending this Sunday, but Little Orphan Annie is heading back to Broadway. According to the Associated Press, Producer Arielle Madover has acquired the production rights to the comic strip and the return is scheduled for the fall of 2012.
It’s not surprising that South Africa is excited over hosting the World Cup, but the emotional impact of having the Cup there is a bit overwhelming. Today’s Madam & Eve doesn’t even try to make a gag and simply celebrates South Africa’s emergence into the modern community of nations that was particularly visible in its […]
Investor’s Business Daily’s editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez will be a guest lecturer at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on June 14. Michael’s lecture is entitled “Editorial Cartooning, Journalism and a Citizen’s Responsibility in a New World Order.” He will also be signing his latest book “Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.” Both events are […]
T Lewis and Michael Fry’s Over the Hedge will celebrate its 15 years in syndication on this Saturday. The feature currently runs in 250 papers and has been made into a full feature computer-animated film starring the voice talent of Bruce Willis, Wanda Sykes, Avril Lavigne, Steve Carell, Eugene Levy and William Shatner. The movie […]
Comic Riffs’ Michael Cavna has posted an open letter or invitation asking Ken Burns to consider making a new documentary of the American cartoon. Michael argues that such a movie should be made sooner rather than later for two reasons: First, the state of the American cartoon is in such tremendous flux: Staff political cartoonists […]
In the last couple of weeks there have been a lot of “which comic strips should be made into movies” lists due to the Marmaduke movie and we’ve discussed the topic here and here. Before I get accused of milking the question to death (I have) – may I point to you ONE more list […]
From the first “Could this be Obama’s Katrina?” to the “Now that we’ve told you night after night how bad this is, how bad do you think it is?” polls, I’ve been wondering what people expected the president to do about it, other than tell BP to clean up their mess.Now, thanks to Tim Eagan’s […]
This was the opening movie shown at the start of the 2010 Reuben Award night in Jersey City – a take on “The Godfather”.Featuring in order of appearance: Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Jeff Keane (Family Circus and NCS President), Jerry Scott (Baby Blues, Zits), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats), Mark Tatulli (Lio, Heart of […]
In the same vein as Garfield minus Garfield, Jeff Ocean has created a sample of Calvin minus Hobbes. He concludes that unlike Garfield Minus Garfield, Calvin without Hobbes is “sad.” I won?t be posting any more of these. They?re too sad. If any brave soul wants to take up the project, a la Garfield minus […]
The LA Times reports that Technicolor is making a move from just being a Hollywood service company to a content creator and has teamed up with Berkeley Breathed to create a TV series based on his book Pete & Pickles. The Times notes that children’s animation is unpredictable. Sarnoff said he was taken with Breathed’s […]
WOWIO, Inc., a website that allows users to share and use digital media content, such as eComics and eBooks announced they have acquired the webcomics community DrunkDuck from Platinum Studios. Following last week’s acquisition of social networking site WEvolt, the acquisition of DrunkDuck will expand WOWIO’s existing library of content available for viewing, as well […]