Entertainment Weekly has a fantastic cartoon by Sergio Aragones to guide readers through MAD Magazine’s history. It so detailed, they had to provide the digital equivalent of a magnifying glass. Fantastic stuff. Be sure to check out out.
Let’s start in Denmark today. Well, in Scotland. But with a Danish story.Here’s one of HJ Ford’s illustrations from Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina,” from “The Yellow Fairy Book”: And now we’ll go to Denmark.Or, the US. But it’s imported: And that’s Wumo, a newly syndicated strip that Michael Cavna writes […]
The New Orleans Advocate has announced that it has hired editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman away from Newsday. Here’s Walt talking about his decision to return to Louisiana, where he used to work for the Times-Picayune prior to moving to New York. ?A few years ago at a Tulane art fair, I purchased a brass skeleton […]
I haven’t seen this pop up on my wall yet – mostly because I have classy friends. International Business Times touts that its popularity is on the uptick. Cool, isn’t it? This Bitstrips app is a Facebook mobile app that is lending its Facebook users a cool sketched avatar. It allows the users to turn […]
Comic Book Resources is reporting that DC Comics is leaving New York City for Burbank, California:In a letter to employees from DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson provided to CBR by DC, the executive writes, “I can confirm that plans are in the works to centralize DCE?s operations in 2015. Next week, the Exec Team will […]
The children’s book that is number one target of banning in America is going to be a feature animation film by DreamWorks Animation. Hollywood Reporter reports DreamWorks Animation has signed Rob Letterman to direct a film adaptation of the children’s book Captain Underpants. Nicholas Stoller was tapped to write the script for Captain Underpants. Rob […]
The latest X-Men movie opens May 23rd in the US.
Today we roll out the big guns, and big in a couple of ways. First of all, they are large format books, which allows you to see the artwork pretty much as the artist intended.Second, they are big guns in that we’ve gone from “Oh, this will be fun! Thanks!” stocking stuffers to serious “Oh […]
Actor Johhny Depp is slated to host a documentary about legendary artist Ralph Steadman. The film is entitled For No Good Reason.From the synopsis: Johnny Depp pays a call on his friend and hero RALPH STEADMAN and we take off on a high-spirited, lyrical, raging and soulful journey discovering the life and works of one […]
Writer, cartoonist Tim Kreider pleads to those in the creative fields to just say no to requests to give away their work for free in exchange for exposure. So I?m writing this not only in the hope that everyone will cross me off the list of writers to hit up for free content but, more […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their annual Stanley Awards over the weekend. The big prize of “Cartoonist of the Year” went to illustrator Anton Emdin. Anton also took top honors in the Illustrator of the Year and Comic Book Cartoonist categories.Speaking of the other categories, Gary Clark was honored in the Comic Strip category for […]
While I’m off playing the wistful wallflower at a vendor’s table, here are some comic collections you may want to put on your list. Any list you like. I’ll even suggest who might like it:For your older and still obnoxious sibling: Rick Stromoski’s Soup to Nutz is not the only syndicated strip that serves up nostalgia […]
I’m going for the award for Most Obscure Headline. If you got it right away, you got an earworm with it. If not, we’ll get you one at the end.The reference is that, on days when I have nothing, I get nothing. On a morning like this, when I’m trying to get ready to split […]
My freshman year, I had a history course taught by the department head, which consisted of two very entertaining and informative lectures by him and a test section by his teaching assistants that had nothing to do with the lectures but was based instead on reading assignments.The history course I subsequently took in summer school […]