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 […]
So the cartoons are coming in, the weepers and the “Congress does nothings” and the “What will it takes?”Yes, what will it take?What will it take before we quit lying to ourselves and pretending we care?Jimmy Margulies got it right. In fact, as newspapers seek ways to cut costs, I think they could benefit […]
Bone and RASL creator Jeff Smith described his webcomic that will debut before Thanksgiving: Two million years ago was the very first fantastic ice age, and Africa was in a drought all the early animal, all the early hominids, all the apes, all the creatures were going extinct because their jungles were disappearing. It was […]
The Pew Research Center has released a study on the mobile device usage in the US. Here’s their summary:Nearly two-thirds (63%) of cell phone owners now use their phone to go online, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project. We call them ?cell internet users? and define […]
ReOrient Magazine talks with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat. I dealt with the regime as though I was dealing with a venomous cobra. I had to attack them from a place where they couldn’t see me; so, I tackled issues that could have applied to them, but they could not say for certain that [the drawings […]
Torsten Adair of Comics Beat is suggesting taking “normal” single panel cartoons and switching the captions with “unusual” gag panels. The inspiration for this is a 1983 oops in the Dayton Daily News that accidentally (twice) switched captions from Dennis the Menace with the Farside. You can see the results over on Dangerous Minds.For this […]