Scott Roberts, a colorist and letterer for the Prince Valiant strip, has released a self-published fantasy novel entitled “The Troubing Stone.” But now he has a new project, a project with his name in teal lettering on the front cover. Roberts self-published his first novel, “The Troubling Stone,” two months ago. It is a departure […]
Matt Wuerker, the editorial cartoonist for Politico, recently appeared on the Newseum’s Inside Media. Here are 5 snippets from that appearance. As an aside, apparently bloggers are criticizing Matt for being a Dick Cheney lapdog. He writes to Jim Romenesko to demonstrate that it is not so.
“Spider-Man 4” may not make its May 2011 release date as Sony Studios and director Sam Raimi are locked in an impasse on the villain Spidey should battle in the next and possibly last installment. Raimi wants a classic antagonist “The Vulture” and Sony wants a “romantic sub-plot involving a burglar named the Black Cat.” […]
“The Simpsons” will air its 450th episode on this Sunday setting yet again another major milestone for the animated TV series. The episode is entitled “Once Upon a Time in Springfield.” After the show there will be an hourlong special celebrating the show’s history produced by “Super Size Me” filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. “I think I’ve […]
Lamar Sparkman, who drew cartoons for over 40 years for the Tampa Times and Tampa Tribune passed away yesterday morning at the age of 88 after complications with pneumonia. Lamar is also remembered for designing the Bucco Bruce logo for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team. He was known for regular football cartoons about the […]
Dan Reynolds, creator of Reynolds Unwrapped, writes in and tells me that some of his cartoons will be in the upcoming movie “Salt” starring Angelina Jolie. He doesn’t know when in the movie his cartoons will be shown or how. The movie is due out in July.Congrats Dan.
Brigid Alverson writing for Comic Book Resources interviews Brad Guiger about his recent decision to put webcomics.com behind a paywall. Brigid: How did you come to this decision, and how long has it been in the worksâ??was it your intention all along to convert Webcomics.com to a paid site? Brad: It wasn’t the intention when […]
Tom Racine interviews MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond about caricature, MAD Magazine, Batman, and his trip to Iraq with Stephan Pastis and Gary Trudeau.
The New York Times reports that the Addams Family stage production currently in Chicago has received mixed reviews and producers have brought in Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks to “take over and work with the creative team to make 11th-hour fixes to the production.”What might be more interesting for cartoonists is that the play is […]
Mason Mastroianni, who took over his grandfather Johnny Hart’s comic strip after his passing in 2007, is now being credited in the strips byline. Last Sunday was the first time the B.C. comic strip featured the byline “by “Mastroianni and Hart.” The change was prompted by Bobby Hart, Johnny’s widow, and Creators’ president Rick Newcombe […]
Marvel Entertainment shareholders have approved the $4.3 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company that was announced in August making the deal final. Marvel’s cadre of super-heroes characters (over 5,000) are now a subsidiary of Disney.
From Richard Thompson’s blog comes news that a “Cul de Sac Golden Treasury, A Keepsake Garland of Classics” is due out in June. He writes: To begin the year we present the cover to the Cul de Sac Golden Treasury, A Keepsake Garland of Classics, due out this June. It’ll feature extensive Author Commentary (and […]
James Cameron’s “Avatar” is breaking box office records in its third week of release. Box Office Mojo is reporting that the film has made $1.025 billion in world-wide and is fourth place for highest grossing films ever behind “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” […]
Stephen Silver is releasing a video series entitled “The Master’s Series” this month which features Stephen visiting the homes and studios of famous cartoonists to talk about their careers, film their techniques as they draw, ink and color. The series is sold through Schoolism.com for $39. Have you ever wanted to sit in the studio […]
Winsor McCay, the creator of the Little Nemo comic strip, has been inducted into the National Film Registry. McCay worked on a Little Nemo film which mixed animation with live-action in 1911. The Library of Congress stated, “its fluidity, graphics and story-telling was light years beyond other films made during that time. A seminal figure […]