Last week the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) launched an auction to benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai. The money raised will go toward medical care for Sharon who has been battling a debilitating brain tumor for some time. There’s some great pieces of original art up for grabs for a really good cause. The art […]
Culled from Youtube: Beetle Bailey Episode 2 Halftrack’s Navy (1963) cartoons
It’s pretty nerdy out there, on a holiday that I think can only be celebrated in the US of A, with Frazz the best of those marking it in the funny pages.We’ll have to make a much bigger deal of this in two years, assuming we’ve all recovered from the whole Y2K scare enough by […]
Library of Archives Canada has acquired over 3000 original drawings, watercolors, textual material and photographs from For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston.From the press release:“This is a remarkable addition to our holdings. Lynn Johnston’s work is significant to Canadians. We recognize ourselves in her characters’ reaction to everyday life.”
Interesting piece over at Fast Company by Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, on creativity. You may be thinking, How is the Braintrust different from any other feedback mechanism? There are two key differences, as I see it. The ?rst is that the Braintrust is made up of people […]
Off the Mark cartoonist Mark Parisi has a new eBook out perfectly themed for cat-lovers. The book is entitled Cartoons Your Cat Doesn’t Want You to See. Even if you’re not a cat-lover, Mark’s an ace cartoonist.From the book: Mark uses his zany sense of humor to illuminate the mysteries of the feline species while […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Signe Wilkinson, for allowing this topic to be addressed without a violation of the Prime Directive.We only show good cartoons here. We don’t mock the off-key, “don’t you people read the papers?” commentaries that should embarrass their creators, though the temptation does become almost overwhelming at times when the facts are easily found but […]
Another serial comic is changing hands. Long-time Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod is retiring and his assistant James Allen is taking over. The strip has been primarily guided by its creator Ed Dodd and Jack, but a lot of cartoonists have had a hand in the strip over the years including the great Jack Davis […]
)I love Steve Martin. Hits theaters November 26th.
Bug Martini either works on wicked-tight deadlines or stumbled into this topic just at the right moment: Keith Richards is now writing a children’s book.As mentioned recently, I read to my own kids and have read to my grandkids. And I know the feeling of having a small child come up with a book and […]
The Advocate newspaper in Pictou, N.S. has issued an apology for a cartoon that they ran depicting a Nazi swastika flag flying over the Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Readers found the cartoon offensive.In part the paper’s apology included these lines: The cartoon was simply meant as a satire, or exaggeration, on Harper?s Economic Action Plan […]
From Al Arabiya News: Ghanem was accused at the criminal court in Oran last month of insulting the president, with the prosecution demanding an 18-month prison sentence and a 30,000 dirham (280 euro) fine. The complaint was filed by his own employer, pro-regime daily La Voix de l?Oranie (Voice of the Oran Region), for a […]
New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff was a speaker at SXSW. Huffington Post has posted a on-the-sidewalk discussion on Bob on how cartoons work.
Dave Kellett on what may be the most annoying feature of an increasingly annoying Internet. As it happens, I ranted about LinkedIn almost exactly a year ago. I signed up because everyone said you had to sign up, then realized there was no real point in it and tried to escape, but, like Sheldon’s grandfather, I […]
I make more than Peter Parker, but less than Tony Stark. Guess I’m doing okay.Via 9Gag.com