This weekend is the annual The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival in New York. This yearâ??s MoCCA Festival program features a rich mix of animators, cartoonists, graphic artists, and academics. Featured guests include Tom Hart, Al Jaffee, Tom Kaczynski, Heidi MacDonald, Gary Panter, Bill Plympton, Arnold Roth, Dash Shaw, Seth, Raina Telgemeier, Adrian […]
Spoiler alert if – and I’m quoting the NYTimes blogs, “if you care about the fictional life of a 67-year-old teenager.”Last week it was announced that Archie was going to pop the big question to either Veronica or Betty in September’s 600th edition. The beans got spilled early, Archie is marrying Veronica (at least proposing, […]
Pixar’s latest release, UP, took in $68 million according to the New York Times. The Upcoming Pixar blog says that make’s it Pixars 3rd best release behind The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. In related news, UP’s opening short film “Partly Cloudy” can already be purchased on iTunes for $1.99.Have you seen UP? What were your […]
Very light (okay, none) on details – with the exception of the release date, June 18, 2010.
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot graphically portrays just small the comics have shrunk in size in American newspapers.To sum it up, howbehold the size of comic strips since the beginning of my cartoon career:H/t: John Glynn
A letter to Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau from the Anti-Defamation League regarding last Sunday’s strip regarding the correct usage of moneylenders vs. “money changers”. We agree with the numerous people who are contacting us that Sunday’s Doonesbury misquotes the Bible, maligns Judaism, and promotes a Christian heresy, all within eight panels. It reinforces age-old stereotypes […]
Daryl Cagle, creator of Cagle Cartoons and MSN editorial cartoonist writes a rebuttal to a piece published in the Huffington Post about “Ten Features That Are Dying with your Newspaper” which includes, according to the author, editorial cartooning. Editorial cartoons have never been more popular. With the Web in addition to newspapers, political cartoonists now […]
Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Fillmore is celebrating 15 years in syndication. To commemorate, King Features is launchng a “political retrospective featuring 15 iconic strips that highlight the political landscape over the years as seen through mallard’s unique perspective.” The feature runs today through June 10. Making appearances as caricatures in the anniversary series, President Obama congratulates […]
AnimationI believe I’ve mentioned this before: a Heathcliff movie is potentially in the works with 21st Century. At the least, a direct to DVD release is also a potential result of a deal between FitzRoy Media and Magic Lantern Entertainment.Exhibits» Art Spiegelman has a featured exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit with an […]
» San Jose Mercury News has picked up Baby Blues, Candorville, DeFlocked and The Duplex. Outgoing strips include: Garfield, For Better or For Worse, Hagar the Horrible and Frank and Ernest.» The Oshkosh (WI) Northwesterner is starting a poll asking three questions: Which two comics in The Northwestern are your absolute, cannot-do-without strips?, which two […]
I just posted an interview with cartoonist Bob Camp, who was a director on Ren & Stimpy. Read it here.
Margaret Shulock, one of the Six Chix cartoonist, has written about her experience writing a continuity strip, in this case Apartment 3-G that she wrote for three years ago. So how do you write a strip that someone else draws? I was unsure but I knew the previous writer had simply typed up scripts with […]
Animation» The plot for Toy Story 3 is the subject of an A.P. story posted a week or so ago. “Next year’s “Toy Story 3″ has the gang learning they have reached their shelf life as the young boy who owns them grows up and goes off to college.”» Pixar receives lots of positive ink […]
» Deflocked bumps out Zippy the Pinhead for a place in The Berkshire Eagle.» The Toronto Star has added Garfield and Baby Blues to their line up . No other features were cut.» New Britain (CT) Herald: began running running Sunday Frazz this last Sunday.» The Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun added Pearls Before Swine […]
Marvel comics ended the marriage between Spider-Man character Peter Parker and Mary Jane in several comic book titles and the newspaper comic strip soon followed suit for the sake of continuity with the comic books. But that now seems to have ended, at least in the newspaper version of the comic. Sunday’s comic revealed that […]