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Hugh MacLeod becomes college’s official cartoonist

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 […]

Norwegian cartoonist called racist after cannibal cartoon

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 […]

CSotD: Tails of the South Pacific

“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 […]

Joe Heller turns Green Bay Packers into superheroes

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.

4 of top 10 most controversial college papers due to comics

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 […]

Justin Thompson goes to Cuba

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 […]

Stephan Pastis releases special Pearls iPad app

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 […]

CSotD: A matter of perspective

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 […]

Forgotten animated comic strip series

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 as seen by Jimmy Johnson’s ex-wife

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 […]

Profiled: Norm Feuti and his new comic Gil

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,” […]

CSotD: Vy a duck? Vy not a gecko?

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 […]

NCS announces call for entry for division awards

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, […]

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