A really good interview over at Slate by Emily Bazelon with Garry Trudeau over the dust up over this week’s abortion series. The whole Interview is worth the time to read for a good insider perspective to the controversy. Here’s a bit from a question about how Doonesbury competes with shows like SNL and The […]
Hefei University of Technology has developed software that uses facial recognition to analyze movies to produce a comic book based on the movie.Developed at the Hefei University of Technology, in China, the clever tech will first of all analyse a film, identify the characters via facial recognition, and then start taking screen-grabs of the action. […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has been told her job at the paper is no longer in danger. Last week, after Tony Auth announced he was leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer, we learned that Signe’s future was dependent on 10 other individuals taking a voluntary buy-out. Michael Cavna reports that while she and the […]
Rico Schacherl, known in these parts as half the Madam & Eve team, has also been cartooning for Finweek, a business weekly in South Africa, where apparently management is just as hip as they are in the United States and elsewhere.Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have a computer on his desk either. I’ll bet he doesn’t even […]
The Salt Lake Tribune decided to run this week’s Doonesbury, but at the last moment got cold feet with today’s “I thee rape” strip. Unsatisfied with the decision, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, Pat Bagley, found a unique solution – he put the strip in his editorial cartoon as seen below. For the non-locals: the hot-tub […]
Next Media Animation has posted an dramatized animation explaining the controversy created by this week’s Doonesbury. Contains great scenes of Garry Trudeau busting out a can o’ whoop a– (doink!, boink! and yoink!) on Rick Perry and others.
Sid Couchey, best known around the comics industry for his work with Harvey comics, particularly on Richie Rich, Little Lotta and Little Dot, died this past Sunday. Tom Spurgeon has a fine piece on Sid over at Comics Reporter, with links you should check out.Sid was also a large presence in the northeastern tip of […]
Michael Cavna interviews Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler about his move to the Columbus Dispatch:“When the Columbus Dispatch asked if I was interested in applying for the cartoonist position, I couldn’t say no,” Beeler tells ‘Riffs. “It’s the number-one newspaper in Ohio, and Columbus is both the state capital and my hometown. My parents […]
Mandrake the Magician, the comic strip created by Lee Falk in 1934, is making its way to the big screen. According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has picked up the rights with the hopes to remake it much like it did for Sherlock Holmes.
This week’s much censored Doonesbury isn’t the first time the strip’s creator Garry Trudeau has delved into the heated debate on abortion. Back in 1985, he did a week series on the topic but it never got to the newspapers because his syndicate felt it would be “deeply harmful to the feature.”Garry has now posted […]
Ollie and Quentin creator Piers Baker is on to other creative endeavors after ending his strip at the end of last year. In a blog post last Friday he shows off a bit of his work with Doodle-Ads.I’m enjoying work as much as ever with the bonus of actually earning some money for a change! […]
As noted before, Bad Reporter’s Don Asmussen regularly faces a challenge of coming up with three good gags on a topical issue.Which he has done here, not only meeting that challenge but also the additional challenge of being more ridiculous than the reality he parodies.That’s quite an accomplishment.Last night, Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi indicated […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looks at the impact and politics of Doonesbury’s comic strip this week.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I’ve been tracking the list of newspapers that are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury, have moved it to their editorial page, or some other variation (dropping select dates; reprinting all of them this weekend, etc.). So far 57 papers have pulled the strips. So the unasked question now is if Garry Trudeau has lost […]
The Poughkeepsie Journal has posted ALL of this week’s Doonesbury for viewing/download. Now you can read them all in one sitting just like the newspaper editors did and decide if it should run, move to another section (editorial page) or ask for alternatives. I thought Thursday’s was a bit jarring for normal newspaper comic fare […]