From Hollywood Reporter: Family film Wreck-It Ralph opened to a record-breaking $49.1 million from 3,752 theaters – the top weekend debut for a Disney Animation Studios title. The record had been held by Tangled, which opened with $48.8 million during Thanksgiving weekend in 2010. (Opening on a Wednesday, the film grossed $68.6 million in its […]
Dennis Lambert, of Arizona local NPR station KJZZ, interviews Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott on their strip Baby Blues, the decline of the newspaper industry and the future of comics.Audio interview is found here.
Paul Jon Boscacci, creator of Fort Knox, will start an ongoing story-line on the topic of prostate beginning next Monday. General Wickum, Commander at Fort Lincoln and main character Joe Knox’s CO, will reveal his illness on November 12. He will receive treatment over the next several months with the Knox family (including the General’s […]
With all the election stuff going on, the current Edge City arc has gone longer without my flagging it than it might otherwise have, but, then again, it was shaping up as merely something about competitive sports. Now, with this strip, I’m not so sure they’re not drilling a little deeper. They’ve been known to […]
New York Magazine: The acclaimed cartoonist, author, playwright, and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth says he’s staying in Southampton for good. Of the city, he says, “You begin each day coping. There’s a kind of built-in abrasiveness living in the city. You wake up and you start dealing with the events of the day. If […]
Last September I posted news that Toonseum founder Joe Wos was attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. The maze is still being created even though he started it back in July. Dave Crawley, reporting for the local TV station KDKA, interviews Joe and we get to see in the […]
DC Comics has announced that it has put it’s entire line of comics on the three major ebook platforms: Kindle Store, iBookstore and the Nook Store.From the press release: “As e-readers and tablets continue to explode in popularity it’s important for us to offer consumers convenience and choice in how they download digital comics and […]
Yesterday I posted cartoons from the candidate’s “hometown” editorial cartoonists. Today, Jos Valdman writing in the Herald Sun looks at a few non-American editorial cartoons about the election results.Here’s a cartoon by Mark Knight of the Herald Sun.
Here’s a departure from custom: I’m starting with the vid clip. The elections were a slap-down to the politics of hate, fear and division.Kinda.Clay Bennett was nice enough, before he posted it to his Facebook page, to tip me early with the answer to my speculation yesterday about the second cartoon he had in readiness. It cracks […]
As I watched the results roll in last night, I wondered how the hometown editorial cartoonists for the presidential candidates approached the win. President Obama is from Chicago, so let’s head over to Scott Stantis at The Chicago Tribune. Stantis is a conservative cartoonist who went for poignancy. When it comes to the “hometown” of […]
I think this Clay Bennett panel pretty much sums it up. It’s got enough detail in it that I assume he did two cartoons ahead of time and posted the appropriate one when the call was made.And I suppose the alternative take might have used most of the same art, but with the facial expressions […]
GoComics has the must read sample of election related comic strips that ran today.Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine got an audible chuckle from me:
The Arizona Republic, which also happens to be the hometown paper for Baby Blues co-creator Rick Kirkman, interviewed him about the 20 years of Baby Blues and the new 20 year collection book BBXX: Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2. Q: How does the partnership work? A: The official titles are that Jerry is the […]
Mark Anderson, a cartoonist I consider one of the innovators in the field, has launched a subscription service for his cartoons. The service comes in two levels and offers unlimited access to his trove of cartoons. Mark contends that cartoons include in blog posts or on social media sites are more likely to be shared […]
The Better Half wins the election day cartooning nod. How depressing.Oh. Sorry, Randy. There’s probably a better way of phrasing that.But, first of all, he wasn’t up against a whole lot. I mean, jokes about “thank goodness the political ads are over”? Is that all you’ve got? That’s not so bad for a gag strip […]