Collider.com reports that Disney’s animated feature “Rapunzel” has been renamed “Tangled.”From producer Roy Conli: “Hey everyone, I’m Roy Conli, producer of Disney’s next animated film. I have some exciting news to share, and it was important to me that YOU guys – the Disney fans – hear it first. I want to tell you about […]

Prageeth Eknaligoda, who went missing about a month ago – two days before the presidential election – is still missing and his wife is pressing police to do more to find him. His colleagues say during the presidential election campaign, Mr Eknaligoda wrote articles in favour of the defeated opposition candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka. The […]

A judge has ruled against the Tribune Co. which sought to dismiss a lawsuit filed Warren Beaty over the rights of the Dick Tracy character. Beaty sued the Chicago media company after it notified Beaty that they were taking back the rights since he had not exercised them since the 1990 movie in which Beaty […]

This could well be a totally personal choice. Not only have I recently signed up with a couple of places with very specific “your password must contain” requirements, but since I switched to a laptop six months ago, I constantly hit the cap lock and have to go back and retype five or six characters. […]

The only cartoon of which I own the original. When I interviewed Jef Mallett for my newspaper some years back, I mentioned this particular strip as an outstanding example of making demands on readers, which is typical of Frazz. What’s wrong with asking the reader to pause and think for a moment? I do have […]

I’m not watching the Olympics. Fact is, I’m on basic broadcast cable, and the good stuff, such as it is, is apparently on CNBC and MSNBC. At least the stuff they show on their main network hasn’t been very compelling, and certainly not three hours after the fact. However, here’s some good stuff from Vancouver: […]

Broom-Hilda did a story-line on Ellen DeGeneres’ dancing during her daytime talk show. It caught Ellen’s attention. DeGeneres held up a copy of a recent Sunday newspaper “Broom-Hilda” comic strip, from Dec. 20, featuring the green-not-so-meanie dancing up a storm, panel by panel, while her buzzard friend Gaylord looks on, questioning her behavior. Broom-Hilda explains […]

Just noticed that David Horsey, editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Hearst Corp is in Vancouver covering the olympics. Check out his blog for updates.Which brings up the question – are there other cartoonists in Vancouver covering the Olympics for their paper?

From the press release: DC Entertainment, founded in September 2009 to unleash the power of the DC Comics library of characters across all media platforms, has named its executive management team, including new co-publishers of DC Comics and a Chief Creative Officer, as well as heads of Sales/Marketing/Business Development and Finance/Administration. Diane Nelson, President, DC […]

Cagle Cartoons and MSNBC.com have released an iPhone app devoted exclusively to editorial cartoons about President Barack Obama.From Daryl Cagle’s blog: This new app focuses on cartoons chronicling the presidency of Barack Obama. Now you can follow as cartoonists from both sides of the political aisle weigh in on the decisions and policies, pitfalls and […]

Bill Day, the former editorial cartoonist for Memphis Commercial Appeal, was honored by the Annual National Press Foundation Awards this last Wednesday. He received a Special Citation for “his work addressing the growing rate of infant mortality in the United States.”“I was honored to join Bill, his wife Susan and their three sons last night […]

One of the nice things about Mark Tatulli’s Lio, aside from Tatulli’s ability to maintain the pantomime format, is that Lio can be king of his universe one day and put-upon the next. Which is probably one of the reasons Tatulli can maintain the pantomime format — he hasn’t locked the character into too restrictive […]

Good news from Editor & Publisher. “We love cartoonists and cartoons which is why we like to show them on ‘Meet the Press,’ the show said in a statement released by an NBC Universal spokesperson. ” So often they perfectly capture and get to the heart of the matter. Not mentioning the cartoonists by name […]

Came out last week.There are supposed easter eggs in the above trailer. Click here for the spoilers, otherwise watch it and see how many you can find.

Sarah Palin called the recent Family Guy episode that poked fun of Down Syndrome a “kick in the gut.” The episode featured a female character who explains that her father is an accountant and her mother is the former governor of Alaska – a clear reference to the Palin family. Palin’s youngest son has Down […]