Let’s warm up with a little outright foolishness, courtesy of Bizarro.A couple of things to note here: One is that, while good art won’t sell a bad gag, it can sure enhance a silly one. Dan Piraro’s ability to draw the crowd under the feeder with a modicum of realism is much of what makes […]
God is for Sunday. All righteous people know that. At least, it sure seems that those who bang the Bible loudest on street corners are the same ones who believe that people who go to church on Saturday now are among the people who will be going to Hell on Judgment Day.Well, I was headed […]
The Salt Lake Comic Con set records for the biggest first year comic-con. Without a doubt there was a lot of untapped geeks in Utah, but what the organizers did with their social media campaign should be something to study for anyone promoting an event or product. Luckily Cheryl Conner wrote a piece for Forbes […]
A University of Pittsburgh student was arrested this early this morning after robbing a convenience store dressed in a Spider-Man costume. By the reports from the local media (see video below), the caper didn’t work out so well for the faux web-head. He was tased by the convenience store clerk and arrested a block away […]
I’ve mentioned this before, but GoComics is now featuring “Origins of the Sunday Comics,” selections from a history of the same being compiled by Peter Maresca and, as GoComics says, available in “all of their full, broadsheet-sized glory in the new book from Sunday Press: Society is Nix, Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the […]
File this under I wish I had the cash to even think about it. From Bleeding Cool: Albert Uderzo is selling one of his original pages from Asterix And The Laurel Wreath, for charity. These pages are rarely sold, and the odds are it will attract considerable attention. Especially since Uderzo is no longer drawing […]
Interesting news from Bleeding Cool: I’ve confirmed that Noah Baumbach, director of Frances Ha, Greenberg and The Squid and the Whale, has been secretly directing an animated movie for Dreamworks. He has some experience with both the form and the studio, having co-scripted Madagascar 3. This picture is an adaptation of Berkeley Breathed’s Flawed Dogs, […]
From The Times-Picayune: Eldon Pletcher, The Times-Picayune’s editorial cartoonist from 1966 to 1984, died Sunday of emphysema and congestive heart failure at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif. He was 91. … A native of Goshen, Ind., Mr. Pletcher studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the Army in 1943. He served […]
For the first time since 2005, Pixar will not release a feature film next year. The Good Dinosaur was slated to be released next year, but after director Bob Peterson was removed from the project, Pixar president Ed Catmull remarked, “nobody ever remembers the fact that you slipped a film, but they will remember a […]
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic, notes that the reasoning behind Santa Barbara’s push to remove Paul Conrad’s Chain Reaction sculpture from Santa Monica Civic Center is suspect. A misguided ? and perhaps underhanded ? move is afoot to dismantle Paul Conrad’s “Chain Reaction,” a 26-foot-tall sculpture that has stood in place in the […]
Last week Japanese officials said they’d file a compliant to the French embassy after a French newspaper ran a couple of cartoons (see one of them above) poking fun of Japan winning the 2020 Olympics depicting sumo wrestlers with four arms due to the nuclear disasters experienced after the devastating earthquakes in 2011.Now that French […]
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has proclaimed that tomorrow is “Joel Pett Day”. The announcement was during a fund-raiser and opening reception of an exhibit of Joel Pett’s 30 years at the Lexington Herald-Leader.From the Herald-Leader: Pett said “the only other time a politician tried to give me something was when I won the Pulitzer in […]
Flash from the Past: The Stripper’s Guide has a discursion on “The Nebbishes,” which I discovered via a tip from Mike Lynch and then expanded through some surfing around whereby I came up with the above example at a blog called “It’s A Cat,” though they aren’t cats. They’re nebbishes, a Yiddish term for a […]
I’ve been a long-time fan of the Danish webcomic Wulffmorganthaler by Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, so I was excited to learn it was being launched as a syndicated comic here in the US under the title Wumo. The feature has been on the web since 2002 and runs in several papers in Northern Europe. […]
Santa vs. Dracula, the graphic novel by Melissa Dejesus (Illustrator) and Ed Power (Author), will soon be available on Amazon.com in October. From the Amazon description: VAMPIRE VS ELF! WEREWOLF VS REINDEER! FRANKENSTEIN VS SNOWMAN! When Count Dracula, Igor, Mr. Hyde, and their forces of darkness the North Pole to obtain Ol’ Saint Nick’s ability […]