Piers Baker’s Ollie and Quentin have hit the two year mark in syndication.He writes on his blog: Ollie and Quentin is two years old this week. Two years since I handed my life over to the Syndication Monster and its Deadline Hounds who snap at my heels every day. At my launch I was about […]
The Australian Acting-Prime Minister has condemned an cartoon drawn by an Indian cartoonist that compares Aussie police to the Ku Klux Klan. The cartoon was published in response to investigations into the murder of a young Indian man.
A cartoonist who posted cartoons picturing the Prophet Muhammad engaged in bestiality and other obscene images in front of a mosque and Somali-owned store will likely not be legally charged for any crime. The St. Cloud Times (MN) reports that county and city attorneys have looked into the issue and have outlined reasons for not […]
An animated editorial cartoon by Mark Fiore has the conservative blogosphere buzzing and livid at National Public Radio for posting a cartoon on the opinion section of its website back in early November. The cartoon entitled “Learn to Speak Tea Bag” pokes fun at Tea Party conservatives for using button pushing terms such as “Nazi” […]
Bridgett Spicer’s webcomic Squid Row has landed a spot in The Monterey County Herald. The comic began running on Monday of this week. Bridgett has produced and posted the comic for the last year on her website Squidrowcomics.com.
Rediff Business is reporting that mobile comics or “momics” are part of a revival of interest in comics – at least in India. Pricing, feels Goyal, will be the major challenge and he is in talks with various telcos to make his momics affordable, because he is confident that people will get hooked to them. […]
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 […]