The Flying McCoys call out the Flaming Eejdits. Good on yez.I can’t tell you how much I hate St. Patrick’s Day. But I can tell you that Patrick’s official color is blue, not green, and that, until fairly recent years, his feast day was kept in rather subdued terms in Ireland. They’ve since learned from the […]
The word came across on Twitter yesterday and spread from there: The Chicago Public School system was banning Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis, and had ordered all copies hunted down and confiscated.I passed an early link along to my granddaughter, a high school junior whom I have been corrupting with comics for several years now. […]
Break of Day creator Nate Fakes is gearing up to produce a 200 page graphic novel called Don Giovanni. It’s a take-off from the opera by the same name, except his story takes place in a trailer park and features a bunch of 8-year-olds.
I get press releases from Smith Micro from time to time. It seems like they’re always releasing something new every month or so. The last email is for a new product called MotionArtist. It looks like a simpler version of Adobe Flash but made specifically for those who produce comics. For those of you who’d […]
Tom the Dancing Bug, with such a complete takedown of Scalia’s comments during arguments for the Voting Rights Act case that I’ve got little to add, except that I hope we get a couple of SC resignations after the current session, or at least before we get a change in the White House.Early would be […]
I missed the announcement last December that Robert Ariail had won the Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. The National Press Foundation has posted his acceptance speech.
This year’s Harvey Awards ballot is now available to comics professionals. Ballots are due May 6th. This year’s Harvey Awards will be presented Saturday, September 7th as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con.If you’re old school, you can download the ballot and send it via the post office.
When Richard Thompson retired his award winning comic strip, Cul de Sac, last year the one hope I had was that a complete collection would be released at some point. I’m happy to learn that such a collection will be released later this year.You can pre-order now on Amazon.
Andrews McMeel has released a series of videos featuring Lincoln Peirce talking about his strip Big Nate.
Daryl Cagle coined the term “Yahtzee!” for those times when several editorial cartoonists come up with the same gag simultaneously, the most egregious example being the 30+ “Weeping Statues of Liberty” that popped up on editorial pages September 12, 2001.Those, of course, came from a lack of wit, but there are more intriguing examples, and […]
Editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant was featured on ¡Colores!, a New Mexico PBS program. He’s the focus of the first 8 minutes.Via Mike Lynch
Attica creator Jeff Burney has opted to move his comic strip that runs in the Ottowa Citizen and make his feature web only.From the Ottawa Citizen: “Attica has had ups and downs over the run of three years. It’s appeared in the Globe & Mail, National Post, The Feathertale Review, and I get regular web […]
Via: Mike Lynch
Another Scott Stantis Cartoon Cavalcade – this time with video. Scott talks to Tim Rickard, creator of Brewster Rockit.
I’m excited to learn some of the details in this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University. The dates for the triennial festival are November 14th–17th, 2013. The first two days are more academically focused. The keynote speaker for the 14th and 15th is Henry Jenkins. Jenkins is the Provost Professor of […]