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Graham Nolan passes Rex Morgan MD torch to Terry Beatty

by Alan Gardner 21 comments January 7, 2014

Graham Nolan, who has been the artist behind Rex Morgan MD for 14 years has stepped away from the strip to concentrate on other projects and has passed the duties to Terry Beatty. Terry has been the artist for King Feature’s The Phantom since January of 2012 and he’ll continue to draw the iconic feature.Terry’s […]

Garry Trudeau to offer “last lecture” at Stanford

by Alan Gardner 0 comments January 7, 2014

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has been invited to give a “last lecture” at Stanford at the end of this month. It won’t be Garry’s last speaking engagement ever. The annual lecture is a tribute to Stanford Law School Professor Harry Rathbun who gave a yearly “last lecture” for two nearly decades. Garry’s speech is entitled, […]

CSotD: Absolute Zeros

by Mike Peterson 5 comments January 7, 2014

 First, the weather:I would note that neither Rick Kirkman nor Jerry Scott live in a part of the country that actually sees much of what I would call “cold weather.” We’ve been grazing 20 below (Note to overseas readers: that’s F) this past week, so today’s Baby Blues is a nice bit of timing.On one […]

DreamWorks to sell tablet to teach kids animation

by Alan Gardner 1 comments January 6, 2014

From the LA Times: DreamWorks Animation SKG is premiering its first computer tablet, one that will teach kids how to be their own animators. The Glendale-based creator of the “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” movies has partnered with El Segundo-based Fuhu Inc. to create DreamTab, billed as a state-of-the-the art tablet designed for kids. […]

Jihad Jane sentenced to 10 years for cartoonist death plot

by Alan Gardner 1 comments January 6, 2014

The New York Times reports that Colleen LaRose, AKA Jihad Jane, who plotted to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, has been sentenced to 10 years. The woman, Colleen R. LaRose, had faced the possibility of life in prison, but Judge Petrese B. Tucker accepted a government request to reduce the sentence, because of her cooperation […]

Mark Evanier, Roger Langridge to do Rocky and Bullwinkle comic

by Alan Gardner 0 comments January 6, 2014

Great news from Comics Alliance: Rocky and Bullwinkle have had a few comics series to their names over the past few decades (often with the two characters? names transposed in the title), from publishers including Dell, Gold Key, Charlton and Marvel. But never before have the characters gotten a series with the creative pedigree of […]

Five of top 10 movies of 2013 had comic origins

by Alan Gardner 1 comments January 6, 2014

I just looked at the list of top grossing movies in 2013. Interestingly five of the ten have some sort of connection to comics, graphic novels, animation or comic books. Rank Title 2013 Gross 1 Iron Man 3 $408,992,272 2 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $400,088,390 3 Despicable Me $367,860,095 4 Man of Steel $291,045,518 […]

Matt Bors announces new line up of The Nib cartoonists

by Alan Gardner 0 comments January 6, 2014

Matt Bors, who edits The Nib, over on Medium, has announced a new line up of regular cartoonists for 2014. Cartoonists include: Liza Donnelly, Rich Stevens, Ruben Bolling, Emily Flake, Brian McFadden, Zach Weiner, J.J. McCullough, Tom Tomorrow, Jen Sorensen, Scott Bateman, Erika Moen, Ryan Pequin, Ted Rall and Shannon Wheeler.And wait – there’s more… […]

CSotD: Puttin’ on the Style

by Mike Peterson 14 comments January 6, 2014

… and the “snow means global change is wrong” cartoons are flooding in as they do each year at this time … but let’s talk about other things people should learn in middle school … Big Nate goes after a fairly fat, slow-moving target, but one with particular resonance for me.My pay-the-rent gig involves assigning and editing […]

Podcast: Episode 193 ? Doug Adams

by Alan Gardner 0 comments January 6, 2014

Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: He’s baaaaack!  Doug Adams, author of “The Music of Lord of the Rings” who graced the halls of Tall Tale Radio back in 2010 in episode 98, joins me again to talk […]

CSotD: Stop lying about my candy!

by Mike Peterson 2 comments January 5, 2014

I’m leading with Matt Davies’ excellent commentary on the Affordable Care Act, but I have little to say about it that wouldn’t echo what I’ve said before: The president’s political opponents are making a very big deal about the failure of the rollout and then either (yeah, right) misunderstanding or (yes) lying about the actual […]

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