I’m struck by how many cartoonists were working in the same building. How times have changed.

During the Society of Illustrators’s Celebrating Kurtzman Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth discussed the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman. Audio of the panel is now online.Via Tom Richmond

Adam Brown, animator for Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans, has animated one of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strips. It’s interesting to see what the strip might have looked like in the hands of a professional animator.Here’s the strip it was based off:

Real Life Adventures, on Hollywood’s tendency to wring every last nickel out of any concept that seems to work.As someone who assigns book reviews to young writers, I’m very much aware of how book publishers pile on a successful theme to attract the teen and preteen market. It’s as though they send dump trucks to […]

Over on Fleen, Gary Tyrrell looks at the four webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Machine of Death, Schlock Mercenary and Dresden Codak) who have raised a combined $1.7 million on Kickstarter.

Comic Book Resources talks to Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about his strip. The second volume of “The Complete Funky Winkerbean” is now available I know that you’ve gotten complaints about the dramatic stories, and though I love them, I can see how from a certain point of view, all the elements might sit uneasily […]

It seems like a good time to note the 10 year anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. These cartoons are from my presentation to high schools, back in those days, and so were often printed directly onto transparencies for overheads, making them quite lo-res. They also were often copied without dates, since they were being used […]

Hagar the Horrible and Raising Duncan cartoonist Chris Browne shares his cartooning tips in this video created by Ken Alvine.

Cartoon Brew has a sliver of insight into a bit of animation history. Famed animator Chuck Jones was to do a special with Walt Kelly’s Pogo. But the project went south.“How did you ever okay Chuck’s Pogo story?,” Ward Kimball asked Walt Kelly shortly after the special aired on TV. “I didn’t, for Godsake!,” Kelly […]

Last week reports gathered that Chicago Public Schools was going to pull Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis after some questioned its appropriateness for seventh-graders. According to Robot 6, the Chicago Public Schools CEO has decided that the book should remain in the schools, but not be used as material for seventh graders. After directing principals […]

A few weeks ago, I featured some papal cartoons and observed that the new pope was going to be elected by the same people who had elected the old pope (yes, yes, under the guidance of God, but the same God who had guided the election of the old pope.)And further that this isn’t a […]

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.