I haven’t posted one of these polls in a while. The Las Vegas Review-Journal polled their readers to gauge popularity in their comics. Blondie (always a perennial favorite) takes the number one spot followed by Garfield and Family Circus. Of the top 10, Zits and Pickles are the youngest.Full results over at their site.The paper […]
Nice piece about Half Full creator Maria Scrivan
Sad news from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:Etta Hulme, a longtime Star-Telegram editorial cartoonist who rose to national prominence with her understated drawing style and liberal-leaning wit, died Wednesday at her Arlington home. Mrs. Hulme, who had been in poor health in recent years, was 90. She was one of the few women ever hired as […]
Extend your credit card limit, take out that second loan on the house, sell everything but the kids. The three Pearls Before Swine comic strips by Stephan Pastis with guest artist Bill Watterson are going to auction on August 8. The auction will be done by Heritage Auctions. The proceeds of the sale will go […]
From, of all places, the St. Louis Cardinal’s website:Amadee Wohlschlaeger, one of the most renowned sports cartoonists of the last century, died at age 102 on Tuesday in St. Louis. Known professionally only as Amadee, he captured the heart, soul and humor of St. Louis sports with his pen, pencil and brushes for more than […]
After editorial cartoonist Ted Rall announced he had taken a staff job with Pando Daily, the cartooning community celebrated the new trend of hiring cartoonists. Unfortunately the old trend of laying-off cartoonists is still very much alive. ValleyWag broke the story that Ted had been fired less than a month on the job along with […]
The penguins in the Madagascar series have been some of the funniest supporting characters in an animated film. We’ll see if they can transition from supporting characters to main. Movie hits theaters November 26 with the talent of Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, Annet Mahendru and Peter Stormare.
Today I’m reminded that Brian Basset’s Adam@home (originally launched as Adam) turns 30 today. The strip is drawn and written by the talented Rob Harrell. Brian is also the creator of Red and Rover that launched in 2000.Here’s an Adam strip from 1995 – the furthest back I could get to on GoComics. Here’s today’s:
Adam@Home is on an arc about the creative process that actually began yesterday, so here’s the Comic Strip of the Day and the Comic Strip of the Day Before. Bonus time, eh?A cartoonist who also works as an illustrator (not at all uncommon, of course) posted something about freelancing the other day that included a […]
David Palumbo on creating your own style:Among the most frequently asked questions of the aspiring visual artist, I would expect to find ?how do I develop my style? near the top of the list. The answer I typically give is to not worry about finding your style because once you?ve mastered the fundamentals of drawing, […]
Jim Keefe posted a video of Stan Lee and John Buscema talking about inking with a brush from their book “How to Draw comics the Marvel Way”. Without a doubt, inking is an art. As things continue to go digital – will it be a lost art?
I thought of one of my favorite films, Jules et Jim, this morning, when I came to The Quixote Syndrome and Peter Mann’s absurdist dialogue — or, actually, non-dialogue — between real-life spouses.I first saw the film a few weeks after breaking up with a spectacularly beautiful, impossibly turbulent woman and, by “breaking up with,” I mean […]
Steve Benson offers this depiction of the Supreme Court ruling in Abramski v. United States, in which the Court ruled against so-called “straw purchasers” or people who purchase guns on behalf of others.Despite the straw man’s argument, the Court did not grant an exception for bogus purchases made on behalf of sweet, innocent little Dorothy, ruling […]
Most of the cartoons in support of the Trademark Office’s cancellation of “Redskins” as a trademark have been kind of low-level: Not bad, but nothing that jumps out as proclaiming any great truth. Not surprising, since the injustice of the term had been already well established.But I like Steve Kelley’s take, because it deals with […]