At last, a day when nothing momentous distracts from the fun of comix!Although I suppose I could spin a rant about astroturf fads from Liza Donnelly’s announcement that she’s getting off the kale bandwagon.When I say “astroturf fads,” I’m not commenting on how the stuff tastes, though I’d rather eat collards or mustard greens or […]
Thank you Chris Eliopoulos for sponsoring this week’s Daily Cartoonist. If you haven’t clicked over to see his latest project – illustrating a six book series on non-fiction heroes who are noted for their resolve and example of individual potential. The books are written by bestselling author and TV host Brad Meltzer. Look for I […]
Universal Studios has announced that they will release a Despicable Me 3 in the summer of 2017 and a remake of the animated Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Despicable Me, I can handle. Another remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas? Bahumbug!
I’ve mentioned my frustration with the attitude so well lampooned by Kevin Siers today.There have been a spate of cartoons taking the opposite tack — accusing Obama and Kerry of foolishness or worse for negotiating rather than threatening, apparently hoping for a chance to send more of our young people to die in the sand.Nor […]
The drawing desk of Jim Borgman.The fine folks over at King Features posted photos of some of their talent’s studios. I love photos like these. What stands out to me is the lack of the drafting tables. You know, the old tilted tables where you’d also dip a brush into an ink bottle and try […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Todd Clark of “Lola” fame is on the show to talk about his long and wonderfully varied career in comics! Todd has collaborated with many of the biggest names in the biz […]
Earlier this week I posted a link over to Goldderby.com which speculated the odds of this year’s crop of animated features winning Oscar awards. As predicted, no animation feature was nominated for best picture. AND as calculated, Frozen was nominated in two categories – Original song and Animated feature film (that last category wasn’t exactly […]
(Chan Lowe) (Tom Toles)I’m ready to give up. What does it take to make people finally say they’ve had enough?There’s a cynical temptation to wish that a few hundred people in West Virginia (disclosure to forestall accusations of heartlessness: I have family in WV) had died from the chemical spill, because then maybe something […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Russ Heath will receive The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this years Rueben awards. Russ Heath may be best known for his stunningly authentic work in DC Comics? war titles such as G.I. Combat, Our Army at War, and Star Spangled War Stories, but the versatile artist […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond writes an informative piece on creating art with someone’s likeness without infringing on copyright or the person’s right of publicity.He writes: Doing a piece of caricature art of a famous individual or a cast of a TV show or movie and then attempting to sell reproductions of that art can […]
Goldderby.com looks at the competition for animated features vying for an Oscar this year. No animated feature has won more than two categories and never best picture. This year, the feature with the best odds: Frozen. Frozen has a good shot at tying the record of two category wins in Best Animated Feature and Best […]
(Nick Anderson)(Matt Bors)Yesterday, I was listening to our local NPR station do the top-of-the-hour local news and, in announcing that an area sports team had hired a new coach with extensive experience in the minor leagues, the fellow reading the piece placed emphasis on “minor league” in a way that suggested that the new coach […]
Cal Grondahl of the Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, was cut this week. Cal is a great cartoonist, the Standard-Examiner was lucky to have him and the whole thing is depressing, but, first, let’s look at my favorite Cal Grondahl cartoon, which he did on the occasion of the death of Rosa Parks.I was going to pull this […]
I’m disappointed anytime an editorial cartoonist loses their staff job, but this weekend the news was extra sensitive. Pat Bagley texted me on Friday alerting me that Ogden’s Standard-Examiner had let go their editorial cartoonist Cal Grondahl. Cal is an institution not just for the Ogden daily, but Utah as well. I’ve known Cal since […]
We’re well into the big awards season. Last night was the Golden Globes. The People’s Choice awards were last Wednesday. In the category of Animated Film, Disney’s Frozen was the Golden Globe winner beating out The Croods and Despicable Me 2. I saw Frozen in the theater over the holidays. It’s a great film. One […]