I enjoy drawing on my iPad (ArtRage app), but there are a few quirks about it. This addresses two of them: Line quality and exactness and resting your hand on the screen:Already funded on Kickstarter. Should be available in January.
The always interesting and entertaining podcast interviewer Tom Racine talks to Pickles creator Brian Crane this week.Here’s the description of the show:Brian Crane, writer and artist of the great strip “Pickles” is with me today to talk about his road to syndication, how he goes about his daily business of bringing the funny old people […]
From Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot who writes about her writing process.Having secured two acceptable notebooks, I headed over to my favorite cafe. The requirements are this: 1) Not too quiet. Background noise helps me concentrate. If it’s too quiet my mind wanders away from the task at hand. College crowds are good ones- they […]
The AV Club has posted an extenstive interview with the legendary Jack Davis. AVC: What artists were important to you growing up? JD: Growing up, of course, Walt Disney. Donald Duck?the big feet?and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. And Harold Foster, who drew Prince Valiant, and he also drew Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs? bit. […]
Earlier this month an Irish-Catholic fraternal group objected to the nomination of Thomas Nast to the New Jersey Hall of Fame due to Nast’s anti-Catholic cartoons of the era. The opposition has gained a bit of traction with the addition of two State Assemblymen Wayne DeAngelo (D) and David Rible (R).From NewJersey.com: “One cannot view […]
Not sure where this story arc in Agnes is going, except that Agnes is one of those strips that, when it suddenly heads off somewhere unexpected, you jump in and hang on, because you know it won’t be a waste of your attention.I do know that Agnes and her grandmother are headed off to visit […]
The recent cases of alleged plagiarism by Jeff Stahler (Post Dispatch) and David Simpson (Urban Tulsa) in the last couple of months has raised the question of journalism standards and cartooning.Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe writing for Editor and Publisher writes reactions from AAEC President John Cole, a statement from Jeff MacNelly from 1990 and Matt […]
I like Pat Oliphant’s cartoon. He manages to portray Gingrich as both the Pharisee in the temple and the man praying on the street corner, which isn’t a hard combo, since they are both people who would rather be thought of as religious than actually embrace the values of religion.On the other hand, Matthew quotes […]
Mike Lynch took the time to scan photos of Jerry Robinson from various NCS events.
Based on a report by Mediabistro’s Fishbowl LA, several of us reported that misdemeaner charges against cartoonist, journalist Susie Cagle had been dropped after the Co-Chairs of the Freedom of Information Committee of The Society of Professional Journalists wrote a letter to the mayor and police chief. According to a letter posted on Daryl Cagle’s […]
Frank Gorshin used to complain that most impressionists didn’t do impressions of the celebrities they were supposed to be imitating, but rather did impressions of other impressionists imitating those celebrities.Instead of imitating Kirk Douglas, they imitated Gorshin imitating Kirk Douglas. Instead of imitating Richard Nixon, they imitated David Frye imitating Richard Nixon. Instead of imitating […]
Timing is everything in comedy, they say, and Tak Bui’s timing with this PC & Pixel was pretty good.Thursday I had to hang around for a conference call from another time zone and it didn’t wrap up until a few minutes after four p.m. here, which meant I had to immediately throw the dog into […]
Jeff Stahler has resigned from his staff postion at the Columbus Dispatch yesterday according to an email from his editor to Steve Myers at the Poynter Institute. Jeff’s work came under scrutinty this week after his Sunday cartoon was found to be strikingly close to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress. A couple […]
“That is Priceless” is a new feature at GoComics, having started October 31, but you can find a significant backlog at Steve Melcher’s blog, where he has apparently been adding irreverent titles to great art since 2009. There’s even a book of them, if you’re still shopping for Christmas or Channukah or the Epiphany or […]
Personally, the supporting cast (the penguins and King Julien XIII) are the funniest things about the Madagascar movies. Trailer got a couple chortles out of me (scenes involving penguins and Julien). Opens June 8, 2012.