Just a reminder that next Wednesday is the premiere of the long awaited debut of documentary Stripped in Hollywood, CA (see details below). If you are attending that night, your ticket also serves as a raffle ticket with a chance to win one of ten exclusive Bill Watterson posters. You can still buy tickets. The […]
In a series on GCTV celebrating Women’s History Month, Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price talks about how she got into the male-dominate field of cartooning.
This weekend is the opening of the Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Head curator Jenny Robb talks to Bill and curator Caitlin McGurk interviewed Richard about their art, influences, and the current state of comics. Excerpts below. Be sure to read the full interviews. And by […]
Mike Thompson takes a poke at the chickenhawks who would like to see us take on a major nuclear power because, y’know, it would make us more macho and stuff.I’ve recently-and-often said that I don’t much like chickenhawks, and I like them even less since the draft ended, since now they aren’t even required to […]
Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy writes:If you live anywhere near Kenosha, Wisconsin, there is an amazing comics festival coming up in September…”The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning”. There are a MULTITUDE of cartoonists giving presentations PLUS two?count ?em?TWO gallery shows of original cartoon art. And even better?the events are all free to the public?so all you […]
A Late Night skit from Seth Meyers wherein actors act out New Yorker cartoons.Props to the show for A. citing the cartoonists who drew the original gag and B. keeping the sets true to the original cartoon.
Bill Holbrook’s On the Fastrack turns 30 years old today. That’s a nice accomplishment – even more so when you consider that he also does the comic strips Safe Havens and Kevin and Kell.Congratulations, Bill!
Film Divider took a frame by frame look at how the CG artists are applying a more traditional line-art style to 3D animation.One of the inherent problems comes from Schulz?s character design. In CG, the underlying premise is that each character is represented, with very few exceptions, by a single, three dimensional model. This is […]
As it happens, the first “oooh, I like that one!” of this morning’s trip through the funnies came at Rhymes With Orange. Little did I expect RWO to set the agenda for the day.Hilary Price specializes in wry, observational humor. This is not funny, but it’s a very good observation and needs to be said.Often. And […]
Variety reports that Disney plans to release a third Cars feature film and a sequel to The Incredibles. The announcement was made during a shareholders meeting.Quite frankly, I’m excited for The Incredibles sequel. It’s one of my favorite Pixar films and I’ve read that writer/director Brad Bird has resisted moving forward with a sequel to […]
Speaking of Peanuts, Fantagraphics Books has announced it’s going to release a softcover edition of The Complete Peanuts. That’s good for someone like me who would love to have it in the collection but can’t justify the cost of buying so many hardcover volumes at $50 each. From Fantagraphics Books:If there’s anyone out there who’s […]
I’ve been dreading this moment since it was announced a Peanuts movie was in the works. I have a complex view of “legacy” strips or related projects. In an ideal world, the creator’s work should end with the death or retirement of the original creator. But we don’t live in that world, so I give […]
If you haven’t put the Nib on your regular diet … well, thanks, because it means you have to come here for clues of when you should go there.But you’re probably missing some comics that would tickle your fancy but don’t particularly tickle mine.Not to suggest that my fancy isn’t wonderfully ticklish, mind you. But […]
A big thanks goes out to Daniel Boris, who sponsored the blog last week. He’s running a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his children’s book Dozi the Alligator based on his Dozi character in his strip. The story follows how Dozi meets Byron Hoxwinder, the other main character in the comic strip. The 20 […]
The whole issue of St Patrick’s Day is fraught, given that it grew to prominence as a kind of civil rights march in the era of Know-Nothing bigotry and morphed into a nationalist event each year, raising money for the liberation of Ireland but has since somehow became the Stepan McFetchit monstrosity it is today.I […]