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Nemo, Monsters returning to theaters in 3D

Finding Nemo will be back in September and Monsters Inc. in December as Disney/Pixar re-releases the films to theaters in 3D. From Cinema Blend: When the 3D release of The Lion King ended up being a huge hit last year, Disney immediately sprung into action and announced that they would be re-releasing a number of […]

Zunar: ruling gives me strength continue fight

Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaqur, better known as Zunar, did not take long to voice his displeasure with the recent ruling by a Malaysian court that said his 2010 arrest for sedition was lawful, but the continued confiscation of his cartoons was not.Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has the full statement released by Zunar. The fighting words part: […]

Piccolo: Lettering is becoming a lost art

Another great post on the art of cartooning from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo – this time on the lost art of hand lettering comics: I draw ?Tina?s Groove? with an ink brush and black india ink. I letter the word balloons with a pen nib dipped in the same ink. Hand-lettering my comic strip […]

CSotD: The mind, she boggles

Synchronicity happens all the time, but this … holy cannolli …This week’s arc at the Piranha Club:… and meanwhile, over at Deflocked …Here’s the breakdown – Deflocked (which often has fairly long arcs) started the ice cream truck sequence on July 16:… but the notion of an ice-cream-truck-ambulance-crossover only came up today.Meanwhile, Piranha Club, which tends […]

Trudeau: No change in Doonesbury title character

Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury, which has a cast of characters number over 50, was named after and built around the character Mike Doonesbury, but this week’s story-line has some wondering if Garry is passing the title character role to Alex – Mike’s daughter. In reality, Garry tells me that the story-line isn’t meant to be an […]

Cartoonist praise for Lee Salem

I reported a month ago that Universal Uclick President Lee Salem was relinquishing his title as editor and focusing more of his time to the business side of the syndicate. Michael Cavna talks to several high profile cartoonists who have worked with Lee for their comments on his impact on their work. Cartoonists include: Bill […]

The Daily lays off 29% of staff

From All Things D: The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily?s plans. The move comes 18 months after the tablet newspaper?s high-profile launch, and a little more than a month after News Corp. announced plans to split itself […]

CSotD: Quick: Hand out the moral compasses!

This Jim Morin panel isn’t exactly the best comic of the day. For one thing, it was the company’s COO, not CEO, who kicked off this whole kerfuffle.But it’s still about the only Chick-fil-A comic that makes a coherent point without relying either on purposefully misreading the facts or on reinforcing the initial bigotry. This […]

Zunar case: arrest was lawful, seizing cartoons was not

A Malaysian court has finally ruled in the lawsuit sought by cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar) after being arrested under the country’s Sedition Act and Printing Presses and Public Act and his cartoon book collections seized. Human Rights Watch reports that the court has ruled that the arrest was lawful. However the court ruled […]

Ollie and Quentin now on GoComics.com

Ollie and Quentin, created by Piers Baker, is now rerunning on GoComics.com. Ollie and Quentin ended its syndication last year after a four year run in newspapers. The feature also continues to run in reruns on King Feature’s Daily Ink subscription service.

CSotD: Sister says

I don’t know much about Adam Huber, who does “Bug,” except that he seems to overthink everything and thus provide a lot of laughs for his fan base.But I gather he is in his early-to-mid-thirties, which means that, even if he is Catholic, he’s not old enough to have been put through the kinds of […]

Todd Clark, T Lewis launch new webcomic

Todd Clark, creator of Lola and T Lewis co-creator of Over the Hedge, have launched a new webcomic on GoComics.com. The new feature, Mr. Gigi and the Squid isn’t exactly new. The two cartoonists developed the characters for a TV pitch a couple of years back and decided to continue development of the feature as […]

Garry Trudeau tackles voter ID laws in Maine

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has stepped into the debate on voter ID laws – specifically the debate in Maine to repeal election day voter registration. The strip that ran last Friday depicts Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster as Jimmy Crow who states that the reason to repeal election day registration is to prevent Democrats […]

CSotD: Trading in Junck Bonds

RJ Matson is a good editorial cartoonist, whose take on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling headlined my post on the topic in June.And, as of Thursday, he’s unemployed. Tom Spurgeon reports that the St. Louis Post Dispatch held a throat-slashing party at the end of the week that included their editorial cartoonist, as well […]

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