Tundra creator Chad Carpenter raised $64k through Kickstarter to make a movie. It hit theaters in Alaska on April 24. The movie is in limited distribution right now. If you’re interested in seeing it and live in Utah, Oregon or California, there’s several theaters where it will be showing. For a complete run-down, visit: http://www.moosethemovie.com/Here’s […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: It’s a Cavalcade of Stars on Tall Tale Radio! The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning takes place again this September, and there’s an Indiegogo happening to raise enough money to fund […]
From Jim Romenesko:The former leadership team of Civitas Media, which has newspapers in 12 states, thought it could cut its way to profitability. Several years ago, it removed the color comics from its Sunday papers, and dropped the weather map. Other cuts were made, too, that resulted in big circulation losses, I?m told. Last October, […]
From the Malay Mail:The Federal Court today allowed the government to appeal a lower court?s decision to lift a ban on two books by political cartoonist Zunar. The cartoonist, whose real name is Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaqur said that the ban on the two books, 1 Funny Malaysia and Perak Darul Kartun were initially lifted […]
Saturday Night Live pokes fun of Drawing the Prophet Muhammad.
A Tina’s Groove comic (above) that was slated to run May 5 didn’t make it past King Feature editors because it was deemed potentially offensive to some readers. Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo writes how insane it is that the US newspaper comics are stuck in the 1950s as far as humor.This tastes like crap […]
King Features Syndicate has launched a new comic strip on American soil. The strip, Carpe Diem, originates from Sweden and is by Niklas Eriksson. The strip has been running in Europe for many years. in 2008 it won Scandinavia?s biggest comic prize, the Pondus Award.If your paper doesn’t subscribe to it yet, you can read […]
Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald, has been awarded the Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning.Finalists were Michael de Adder also of The Chronicle Herald and Wayne Wright of The Journal Pioneer.Congratulations Bruce as well as Michael and Wayne.
Legend of Bill and Intelligent Life creator David Reddick has posted on Facebook that he’s tied the knot.Congratulations, David! My best to the both you and Dana.
Kevin Kallaugher is this year’s recipient of the Herblock award. Below is the audio from his acceptances speech at the Library of Congress.Bruce Guthrie has posted scores of photos from that evening including this one. It looked like a great event.
NPR interviewed New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee regarding his latest book Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People. The book comes out later this month. From NPR:On The New Yorker’s rejection rate It’s classically bad. … We’re supposed to turn in 10 gag ideas, you know, at a sketch level. And on a really good […]
Bosch Fawstin, the artist whose drawing of the Prophet Muhammad won the Draw Muhammad contest in Garland TX the night two gun-men attempted a shooting spree, says he’s not going into hiding and will continue to expose “the world’s most dangerous” movement.From World Net Daily:Fawstin, who spoke to WND Friday evening by telephone, said he […]
ABC News talks to Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli as well as B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni about the shrinking comic page and how it’s affecting cartoonists. Mark mentions that his client list has lost 30 papers in the last 18 months. B.C.’s list has shrunk 5%, which is a big number […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted an official statement condemning the recent shooting attempt in Garland, TX.The shootings in Texas once again demonstrate that art is provocative, but we must not cower in the face of threats to this profession or to free expression. Political art, be it cartoons, paintings, sculpture, or anything […]