Babson College has partnered with Gaping Void creator Hugh MacLeod to create cartoons to inspire entrepreneurial students.“The cartoons make statements, spark conversations, and inspire action. They help us communicate our belief in the power of entrepreneurship in organizations of all shapes and sizes and our strategy to lead the advancement of Entrepreneurship of All Kinds […]
A cartoon by Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli is being called racist by readers of The Metro.The cartoon depicts a cannibal chief and wife being approached by a suitor for their daughter’s hand in marriage.Swedish celebrity Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité also took time to write the paper to complain saying that, “after all these years of human […]
“Sherman’s Lagoon” has been riffing on “Dolphin Tale” this week, a feel-good movie about a dolphin who caught her tail in a trap, had it amputated and was fitted with a prosthetic tail. It’s based on a true story, which, since “based on a true story” generally means “We only made up 85 percent of […]
Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller has wrapped up a special project creating posters depicting players from the Green Bay Packers as superheroes. The posters are posted on the paper’s website for fans to download.In the video above, Joe says that each poster took 6-7 hours due to the amount of line work.
Interesting write-up of the 10 most controversial college newspapers in the U.S. The college newspaper is the perfect storm for controversial content. The content standards are much more relaxed because nobody is afraid of offending the older readers (most papers don’t have a subscription so no fear of someone “dropping the paper”). Advisors are less […]
Cartoonists from the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be visiting the McMaster’s Children’s Hospital next Friday to draw cartoons for the children patients. Local cartoonists participating include Chapter Chair Mike Cope, Jonathan Mahood and Patricia Storms.
MythTickle creator Justin Thompson has posted a two part report on his December trip to Havana Cuba to paint a mural of Snoopy and Woodstock at the invitation of the community. The trip was funded by Jeanie Schulz and the mural represents the first for a US citizen.A little shy of two years ago, I […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has released his first iPad app called “Only the Pearls.” The app contains 250 of his favorite strips with 125 audio commentaries, 22 videos of himself and 12 animated strips.Here’s part of the description:For Only the Pearls, Pastis personally selected his favorite 250 strips. More than half of the […]
Jeff Payden’s Biff & Riley comic has moved from Comic Sherpa to GoComics.com as of Monday where it will be updated on Monday and Wednesdays. Jeff put the strip on Sherpa back in 2010. Biff & Riley are two dog brothers with completely different personalities and the strip follows their adventures.
The other day, I gave a quick plug for “Gil,” Norm Feuti’s newly-syndicated strip about a not-very-successful kid with a not-very-perfect life. Here, not quite two weeks into its run, is Gil.I’ve mentioned this before, but Norm’s other strip, “Retail,” came out when I was working at a newspaper and the samples in the sales […]
The AV Club takes a look at 15 comic strips/panels that made the leap to animation. List includes The Far Side, Garfield, Wizard of Id, Doonesbury, Blondie, Pogo, For Better or For Worse, Cathy, Marvin, Lil’ Abner, The Smurfs, Hagar the Horrible, The Phantom, Miss Peach Of The Kelly School and Peanuts.They’ve posted video clips […]
Arlo and Janis creator Jimmy Johnson has a new book collection out (Beaucoup Arlo & Janis). His ex-wife Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes glowingly about the strip and her former husband.If my youthful insecurities and jealousies during our life together helped inspire a single idea, I’m proud to have been of service. Jimmy, like most good […]
Today.com has profiled Gil creator Norm Feuti about the launch of his new feature and how it compares to other family strips. The cartoonist finds it a bit surprising that it’s taken newspaper comics so many years to deal with divorce head-on. “It’s sort of an odd thing where we’re afraid to show real life,” […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange raises a frightening question: I wonder if all those years of listening to Tony the Tiger and the Cheerios Kid were simply programming us to accept empty promises from friendly, two-dimensional characters?And I wonder if getting a few more days between myself and the New Hampshire Primary would ease that feeling […]
In addition to the creation of a new online comic strip category, the National Cartoonists Society has announced their annual call for entries for their 15 division awards. The division categories include: Television Animation, Feature Animation, Newspaper Illustration, Gag Cartoons, Greeting Cards, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspaper Panel Cartoons, Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration, Book Illustration, Editorial Cartoons, […]