Thanks goes out to Tom Falco who is this week’s sponsor. Tom is the creator of the comic Tomversation. Tom has been doing comics and illustrations for 30 years and his work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and online such as the Miami Herald, Huffington Post, Examiner and Webcomic Alliance. He is also the […]
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones has announced that he’s starting up his own syndicate to sell his editorial cartoons. The decision also cuts his syndication relationship with Creators where he’s been represented since 2000. Despite good relations with the syndicate, Clay’s reason for striking it out on his own are financial.In an email he tells me: […]
I’m in Colorado, where, as you perhaps have heard, they recently legalized marijuana, or, as the “potheads” call it, grass, pot, boo, gage, rosa maria, tea, shit, weed, mary jane and/or dope. Which is not what I’m out here for, but the relentless Rocky Mountain High and Doritos cartoons with which we’ve been bombarded did make […]
Chan Lowe knocks one over the fence.I’ve got nothing to add, except to applaud not only the political hit but the subtlety of the Capt. Renaud reference. Not that it quite fits the overused “I’m shocked! Shocked!” quote itself, but he picked up on the bland indifference to morals and consistency that makes the moment […]
Scott Bateman’s infographic on the recent cold spell that he posted on his Tumblr site last Friday ended up in USA Today yesterday – kind of. The infographic that ran in USA Today was cleaned up (language), but essentially left intact (see below). The incident was reported by Jim Romensko. USA Today’s editor-in-chief David Callaway […]
From The Hollywood Reporter: After weeks of speculation, Stan Lee has confirmed that he will appear in an upcoming episode of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. While details on just whom he will play are unclear, Lee — who also serves as an executive producer on the freshman series — tells The Hollywood Reporter that […]
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee creator John Hambrock has added a new character to the line up – a girl with the smarts to outwit Edison. The character’s name is Katie Franklin character and she’s appeared in months past, but sounds like she’ll become more of a regular.From The Behind the Scenes blog:We’ve been […]
Funny video snippet from For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston during a 1995 Festival of Cartoon Art talk. The question she tries to answer in 2 minutes is if comics are art.
Proving again why some celebrities should have to take classes and be licensed to have a Twitter account, Shia LaBeouf tweeted a photo of his next project entitled “Daniel Boring” with the hashtag “#original”. What might have been a really, really, really bad attempt at humor is blowing up (again) because “Daniel Boring” and the […]
I don’t know what to call this Zach Weinersmith strip (of which this is only the first panel), because it looks like Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip but it’s over at Matt Bors’ The Nib site, and there’s a different strip up today at SMBC. So I guess it’s an exclusive for the […]
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 […]
What a great tattoo by Russian tattoo artist Alina Fokina.
Lego has produced a Lego set replicating The Simpsons home. It’s 2500+ pieces and features the Simpson family and Ned Flanders.
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, […]
Entertaining five minute piece where Bizarro creator Dan Piraro recounts the process of creating a comic in the pre-digital era.