Back in June, I reported that a 3D version of Beauty and the Beast was being slated for a 2011 release. Hollywood Reporter now reports that the rework has been pushed back until 2012 or later. Converting pics to 3D costs $15 million or so per movie and theatrical prospects are limited for any re-release. […]
Proving that Hollywood will make just about anything into a movie we have news that the “Babar” is being adapted for a feature film. According to Animated News, The Twilight Saga producers have acquired the rights to the character with the intent of making a live action/CG version.
The Centre for Independent Journalism is throwing its support behind a legal challenge to book banning by the Malaysian government. Back in June, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs signed an order banning two satirical books by cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque (AKA “Zunar”) under the Printing Presses and Publications Act which prohibits material that is […]
A traveling exhibit of Dave Coverly’s work is opening in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The exhibit is entitled “Speed Bump: The Comic World of Dave Coverly” and runs through September. Dave will also attend a public presentation in September for a book signing and to meet the public.
Paul Sabourin, co-comedian in the musical comedy duo Paul and Storm, has started substituting New Yorker cartoon captions with recent Kanye West Twitter tweets – often with very funny results. urlesque.com interviewed Paul in the motives and inspiration between the mashups. The pretentious explanation: Kanye’s tweets are more or less raw id (unfiltered, portraying base […]
Tony Murphy, creator of It’s All About You, has made good on his fund raising promise to publish Coffee Talk – a weekly comic-strip broadsheet to be distributed through coffee shops. Tony raised $5,776 through Kickstarter to fund the endeavor. The first issue is now being distributed in Brooklyn, NY.
Creators of family cartoons always have the question of whether to let characters grow or freeze them at a particular age. Lynn Johnston famously aged her “For Better or For Worse” characters in real time. Charles Schulz let the “Peanuts” gang hit a certain age and freeze, so that Linus and Schroeder began as babies, […]
The Comics Journal delves into recent news stories regarding a manga translator being arrested in Sweden for possession of manga depicting undressed children (the images posted on TCJ’s site depict a child taking a bath). In Sweden, all images ? be it photos, movies, animations or drawings ? depicting what one can understand to be […]
The Guardian reports that Barnes & Noble is now up for sale. B&N, which owns 720 high-street shops in all 50 American states, announced it was calling in the investment bank Lazard to advise on strategic alternatives including “a possible sale of the company” after a 45% slump in share price in the last year. […]
The iPad was first deemed a dud because it was a device for consuming media, not creating it. Some didn’t get that message and started creating digital paintings that are selling.These works of art could easily be mistaken for oil paintings or watercolours – but they’ve actually been created on an iPad. The pictures were […]
Before the launch of the Oh Brother comic strip, individuals I spoke with were very excited in what was described as King Feature’s first foray into a webcomics model for one of their features. The way the site was talked up – pre-launch, I really believed that King was going to create something bold and […]
Seems odd to have Dan Piraro do a cartoon in which a butcher is seen as the good guy, but here’s a Bizarro for everyone who has watched the deleted scenes from a movie and said, “Thank god for editors!”Come to think of it, it’s odd to see any cartoon in which an editor is […]
Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that they’ve created three new 3D shorts to premiere before three of their upcoming features. The first short was released last weekend with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, another will be released with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole in September and the last one […]
The LA Times is reporting that Illumination Entertainment is developing a new version of “Curious George”. The movie is expected to feature the wry animated images of “Despicable Me” and will spin a new story of George the monkey/chimpanzee (depending on whether you favor H.A. and Margret Rey’s text or the tail-less images) who’s taken […]