The Comics Journal’s Michael Dean writes a more in-depth piece on the recent announcement that MoCCA is merging with Society of Illustrators. In a little more than a month, this radical transformation of MoCCA’s future went from a tentative germ of an idea to nearly a fait accompli. With the lease coming to an end […]
Jim Toomey’s Sherman’s Lagoon is taking on “Shark Week”. From King Features PR: Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the ocean, along comes a Sherman?s Lagoon ?Shark Week? fish tale funny enough to propel you out of the water. In a special weeklong comic strip series, cartoonist Jim Toomey?s Great […]
I suppose I was in elementary school when “Rebel Without A Cause” came on TV. I wasn’t old enough to care about the movie, but I was most impressed with the “chicken” scene where Buzz’s sleeve gets caught in the car’s door handle and he plunges to his death.Several decades later, I am most impressed […]
The Willamette Weekly reported yesterday that The Oregonian may cease to be a daily based on actions by Advance Publications, Inc who dropped the New Orleans Times-Picayune to a 3x week paper and has said that it’s considering altering printing schedules of other papers in the chain – the Oregonian being one of their papers. […]
If you haven’t been to “Retail” lately, you’re probably out of the loop.Here’s the necessary update: Marla is not only back from maternity leave but has been promoted to store manager, which might be good except that her former boss, Stuart, is now district manager but has set up his office in the local store, so […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has a blanket or quilt with 120 classic cartoon characters stitched into it. They’ve identified most of them, but there are some still needing to be identified and they’re asking for your help. From their blog: When we received the Bill Blackbeard collection, among it was this textile […]
Tom Tomorrow on inevitability and futility.I’m not 100 percent sure this message of passivity is being preached so much by “experts,” however, because I’m no longer sure who the “experts” are anymore, and I don’t think that’s because of my being out of the loop. I am out of the loop, however, to the extent of […]
Recently I had dinner with friends whose son asked if I was a “Browny.” A Browny is an adult man (or maybe even a teen) who watches My Little Pony. Apparently it’s the raging thing to do.From Film School Rejects: These days, adults watch children?s shows; it?s a fairly normal occurrence. Long-running cartoons like Spongebob […]
Daryl Cagle reports that a recent Chick-fil-A cartoon by Jimmy Margulies received quite a bit of reaction. The cartoon depicts a Chick-fil-A restaurant having two water fountains – one straight individuals and another for gay – reminiscent of segregated water fountains for African-Americans.Here’s Jimmy’s response to the reaction: I received both praise and condemnation for […]
Anne Hambrock has an informative comparison of crowd funding solutions Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Each have their pros and cons that you need to be aware of. Her last bit of advice is key. No matter what solution you go for – make sure you have a social network to generate publicity.
Slowpoke’s latest, in which Jen Sorensen is as puzzled as I am over the amazing Mom from my hometown who keeps discovering things the experts haven’t figured out.I’m a little — but only a little — puzzled by this strange intersection of Madison Avenue and “1984,” whereby advertisements are, at least to my mind, targeted […]
Ray Billingsley is profiled in The Stamford Advocate. Walker, 88, passed the moniker on, and still refers to Billingsley, 55, as “Kid.” The tag carries some baggage for Billingsley, who says his emergence as a wunderkind artist did not make him the most popular kid on the block or with art teachers whose own aspirations […]
Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as […]
Tucker Stone takes an ignorant review of Doonesbury over at The Comics Journal: At this point you?re probably thinking one of two things: either that Doonesbury is such an easy target at this point that criticizing Trudeau for being a complacent self-important boomer is about as shocking as the assertion that Orson Welles put on […]
Another great interview by Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine talking to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis about his new treasury collection, and “a bittersweet/hilarious story bound to cement his place as a rock-star cartoonist that involves a limo, late night partying and a midget. ”