Brett Koth, who works with Jim Davis’ to help produce concept and gags for the Garfield strip, recently launched a new strip through Creators Syndicate entitled Diamond Lil. As of March 1, “Diamond Lil” became Koth’s first nationally syndicated cartoon drawn under his name alone. He has served previous stints penning “Bugs Bunny” and “Mr. […]
The best part of “Between Friends” is the sense of “Yeah, exactly” that Sandra Bell-Lundy is so good at capturing. We’re used to the notion that a father who presses his son to excel at sports, or a mother who presses her daughter to be pretty and popular, are viewing their children as reflections of […]
A 368 page book collecting the comic book work of Milt Gross has been released by Craig Yoe.Milt Gross was a cartooning genius who was championed by Art Spiegelman in “Raw” and Dan Nadel in “Art Out of Time.” Gross wrote and drew what many consider to be the first graphic novel, “He Done Her […]
This is the first of 20 profiles I did of cartoonists and their strips for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY, beginning in January of 2003, after I had redone their comics page. Jerry Bittle had done “Geech” for years; his newer strip, “Shirley and Son,” was about to debut in the Post-Star.Jerry was easy […]
It’s pretty standard in comedy to have one character make an articulate speech only to have the other character respond with something banal to puncture the whole thing. What cracks me up about this strip is Petey’s complete lack of emotional response in return. He was sent to get his little sister for lunch and […]
Kick back and watch this video of Rob Roger’s lecture to the Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts in Society delivered on March 6, 2010. Runs 39 minutes, but well worth it.h/t Mike Lynch
Entertainment Weekly is reporting the other major actors that rumored to lend voice talent to the Smurf movie. Hank Azaria, best known for the multiple character voices on “The Simpsons”, will be the voice of Gargamel. Katy Perry will voice Smurfette, George Lopez and Alan Cumming will voice some unnamed smurfs. Jayma Mays will play […]
Thank you Lynn Reznick for forwarding this to me. Summary: The new White House copyright czar is collecting comments from artists on how to improve copyright protection. See below for details. All comments must be received by Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 5 p.m. EST. Please read and submit your comments.FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP White […]
Jeff Bacon emailed me to tell me that another USO tour is planned for nine cartoonist to visit wounded troops. The dispatched cartoonist include Bruce Higdon (team leader), Mason Mastroianni, Chad Carpenter, Ray Alma, Dave Mowder, Ed Steckley, Tom Stiglich, Stephen Silver and Rob Harrell. The trip is scheduled for April 26-30 and the cartoonist […]
One of the things I used to rail about in TV shows decades ago was the random introduction of new characters as someone’s best friend or cousin or college roommate in order to create a crisis that would be solved by the end of the episode with that supposedly important character never to be seen […]
Pioneer Press has announced that Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist Jack Higgins will also be drawing a weekly cartoon for them and The Doings newspapers. Jack tells me he’s still working for the Sun-Times, but will be providing weekly local cartoons to the other two publications which are owned by Sun-Times.In other Higgins news, Northwestern University Press […]
I received an email from one of our regulars pointing out that when I used the phrase “First it was Scott Stantis, now Richard Thompson has posted a quick draw” in yesterday’s post that Scott wasn’t really the first to post a quick sketch. I agree. Bad writing on my behalf. In fact, those videos […]
In just a few moments (10:00 am EST), Jules Feiffer will be the guest on The Diane Rehm Show. If you don’t get to hear it live, go here for past shows or download the podcast. If you’re in the DC area, Mike Rhode reports he’ll be at Politics and Prose today at 4:00 pm.I […]
We’ve know for a couple of weeks that Stephen Pastis, Dan Piraro and Richard Thompson were up for the Reuben award. The National Cartoonist Society has announced the division awards which are as follows: FEATURE ANIMATION Ronnie del Carmen – Storyboard Artist – “Up” Tomm Moore – Director – “The Secret of Kells” Barry Reynolds […]
I was in a liquor store once — well, to be honest, I’ve been in a liquor store more than once — But once when I was in a liquor store, I overheard a couple ask the manager which was the best butterscotch schnapps. His professional response was to say, “well, we seem to sell […]