Paul Gilligan, is contemplating moving to Hawaii or at least spending some serious time there. His feature “Pooch Cafe” was also picked up by the Honolulu Star Bulletin. The two events aren’t directly linked.Our newest Sunday comics section contributor, Paul Gilligan of “Pooch Café,” actually stopped by a couple of months ago, during a visit […]
Slightly Off-topic. It’s been rumored for quite sometime, then production started, now a release date of July 27, 2007 has been set for the full length animation movie of The Simpsons.A 25 second trailer has been showing in theaters before Ice Age 2.I’ll link to the trailer should it appear online.UPDATE: Looks like it’s more […]
First read on Andertoons, the Garfield sequel movie trailer has been posted.This second movie keeps Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Garfield, Jon Arbuckle and Liz Wilson, D.V.M. respectively.
Mike Peters is one of a handful of people on a steering committee to create a media hall of fame to honor local media personalities. The project will be formally announced in June. Mike is originally from St. Louis.
A group of rabid Bush haters have put together an April fools joke site in which they praise the president. Artists include: Mikhaela Reid, Ted Rall, Jim Siergey, Elena Steier, Kirk Anderson, m.e. cohen, Scott Bateman and Ed Hall.The funny thing is… even when they try, they can’t do a positive cartoon on Bush – […]
Dick Locher will be taking over both the art and writing for the Dick Tracy comic strip according to E&P. Dick took over the writing temporarily after the death of Michael Kilian back in October, but the change has been made permanent. Dick will also continue his editorial cartooning.Also reported by E&P is Dick will […]
Aaron McGruder is putting the final touches on the season one DVD of Boondocks according to USA Today. “It’s kind of surreal when you are doing it,” he says. “I always wanted the TV show when I created the idea, and I guess DVDs are an inevitability for that now, and a very good one.”The […]
The Hawaii Publishers Association’s Pa’i Awards were announced recently and Dick Adair won both first and second place for editorial cartooning. Third place went to the Honolulu Weekly, an alternative weeky.
Over on Movies Online is a post about how creatively bankrupt Hollywood has become and the new trend for movie markers is to take comic strips and make them into movies. That’s probably not very revealing – it’s happened several times before, but at the end of the article the writer lists some of the […]
A while ago, I posted a story on Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer starting a weekly cartoon caption contest. When I subscribed to my local paper here in Utah, I noticed that Cal Grohndal (Standard Examiner) was doing one too. Now I see Mike Peter’s does one for his paper the Dayton Daily News. […]
Scott Adams, who usually charges $30-50k to speak, sat down with high school students to give them the inside scoop into the life of a syndicated cartoonist. The event was part of a larger program to introduce kids to a variety of professions.For Adams it wasn’t just a way of giving back to the community. […]
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has made a couple of additions to their funny pages. After a reader poll, they’ve picked up “Get Fuzzy” and “Mutts.”Our popular comics page has some new faces as well. Some weeks ago, we ran a reader poll on what you wanted, and as a result, we’re adding two comic strips […]
The 19th annual Rube Goldberg competition is set for this weekend. The competition pays homage to late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing extremely complex machines that performed very simple tasks. This year’s challenge is to build a mechanism that will individually cut or shred five sheets of 20-pound, 8-by-11-inch paper. About eight university […]
Jef Mallett, creator of “Frazz” will be speaking to participants of the Musselman Triathlon – which Jef will compete in the next day. The event happens on July 15th and 16th.Mallett is an avid age-group triathlete and often includes bike racing and triathlon as themes in his work. He will entertain athletes as the guest […]
The 12 newspapers that McClatchy plans to sell to finance the purchase of Knight Ridder are a bit closer to knowing who their next bosses may be. The LA Times reports that there are three potential bidders: Yucaipa Cos (a Los Angeles investment firm), MediaNews Group Inc, and Gannett Co. McClatchy Co.’s planned sale of […]