Randy Glasbergen’s “Better Half” is like the player who, when you look at the box score after the game, you find was one of the high-scorers even though he didn’t take any spectacular shots from beyond the three-point line. He simply makes the shots he takes, and it adds up.Today, Glasbergen hits on a point […]
A new Peanuts feature film will be hitting theaters in 2015 according to Peanuts Worldwide – the joint venture between Iconix Brand Group and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The film is written by Charles M. Schulz’ son, Craig.From the press release: Craig Schulz, President, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, commented, “We have been working […]
The Independent Weekly profiles Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis and his book tour for his latest book: Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out: A (Freaky) Pearls Before Swine TreasuryOne little nugget from the interview: “Sometimes I think the obituary for syndicated comic strip guys has been written prematurely ? it?s almost impossible to break in, […]
With the release of the “Monsters Inc” prequel, “Monsters University” next summer, Disney/Pixar has rolled out an official Monsters University website that has all the typical content of a real university: news, a store, information for students, faculty, admission, campus life, etc.Monsters Inc. is one of my favorite Pixar films and I’m looking forward to […]
Tom Tomorrow, an endangered species, on the recent debates.But, y’know, not recent enough. We want the truth and we want it right now, but, if we have to choose, we’ll take “right now.”So the consulate in Benghazi is attacked, and the first report is that a mob got out of control, stormed the place and killed […]
South Jersey Times profiles Lio creator Mark Tatulli and his upcoming book, “Lio: There’s a Monster in My Socks” “I actually created Lio for adults because I knew there weren’t that many kids reading the newspaper anymore, so I wrote it as a throwback for our generation,” he said. “But then I found out that […]
The Star-Ledger profiles Hy Eisman, cartoonist for both The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye (Sundays). Despite penning two of the most famous comic strips in history, the cartoonist lives in relative anonymity. A neighbor who had done work on Eisman’s house discovered, to his surprise, the cartoonist’s name on the wall of the Popeye museum in […]
One of the attendees of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was Mike Cope who has uploaded 240 photos he took of the event. It?s worth a gander and a mental note to make sure you attend the next one. By the reports I’ve heard from those who went, it was a great event.
An Afghan cleric has offered $300,000 for anyone who kills the producer of the anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims,? that has angerd the Muslim word and another $100,000 to the person who kills the French cartoonist who drew caricatures of the prophet Mohammed that recently appeared in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. I have yet […]
Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of This Modern World is alerting fans and readers that the Village Voice is no longer running his cartoon. In a blog post he explains that the six month suspension of cartoons in the chain’s newspapers is now in its fourth year and had it not […]
A bit of well-timed subtlety from Sandra Bell Lundy at Between Friends. Subtle in that you may have to look twice to get the point and I suspect a lot of readers will be scratching their heads over this one. “Subtle” is not much prized in mass media, especially when the artwork is shrunken down to […]
Doonesbury decries the lack of information available in the Information Society.There’s plenty of information, of course, but you have to go look for it, which, even for a dedicated info-scrounger, is not so easy. Even Google News is driven by what other people think is worth knowing, and so, while it’s a pretty good resource, […]
Seems odd to be returning to the topic of second-time-around romance within the same week, but today’s Close to Home brought forth such a hearty “Yes!” from me that I couldn’t rule it out on the basis of having recently discussed that sort of thing.Besides, romantic disasters never go out of fashion.That previous post was […]
Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was recently arrested and released for sedition for drawing cartoons “insulting” Indian national symbols and emblems, has agreed to be a contestant on an Indian reality TV show called Bigg Boss. The show, much like American show Big Brother where in contestants live together in a secluded home and then […]
Michael Cavna talks to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis regarding his strip’s success and the state of comic strips.Stephan: ?We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats,“ continues Pastis, bemoaning the state of the industry. ”Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.”