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Second Tintin movie planned before first opens in US

Indie Wire reports that a second TinTin movie is already in the works before the first has yet to open here in the U.S. It seems like the domestic success or failure of ‘Tintin,’ which doesn’t open on our shores until December 21st, isn’t even a factor at this point – they’re moving forward whether […]

Check out exclusive Pogo preview

Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ”Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute at […]

Profiled: Pulitzer writer Gene Weingarten

The Washintonian profiles Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten who is also co-writer of the comic strip Barney & Clyde.Weingarten may also be the best writer in American journalism. He?s the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing twice, once for the violinist story and once for a story about parents […]

CSotD: Doing bad taste well

Francesco Marciuliano is at his best this time of year, when his penchant for incisive bad taste becomes a delightful antidote to the cloying sentimental dreck that, really, is equally bad taste only more cynically applied.And Medium Large, his almost-always-funny blog, is currently featuring a riff on the Peanuts Christmas specials that was originally posted […]

Coincidence or plagiarism for Jeff Stahler?

Yesterday’s editorial cartoon by Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler has a striking similarity to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress (see both below).I asked Jeff for a response to which he’d only say, “my only explaination [sic] is that it’s a coincidence.”This is the second coincidence this year. Last March, one of his […]

CNN spotlights MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee

CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over another. […]

CSotD: A lousy public image

Dylan Horrocks has created this faux-Tintin cover as an auction item for a crowd-sourcing effort to send freelance journalist and fellow Kiwi Jon Stevenson back to Afghanistan for another look at the situation there, where New Zealand has SAS forces stationed.Of course, it’s brilliant of him to riff on the current interest in Tintin, whose […]

CSotD: Coffee break’s over

One good thing about Newt Gingrich moving into the forefront of the GOP Nomination Extravaganza is that he inspires more incisive commentary.As has been noted before, others in this college of clowns have been so ridiculous that they left cartoonists with nothing to work with. Cain, Perry, Bachmann and such were like the pathetic, deluded […]

Profiled: Charles Schulz, Peanuts and licensing

From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves:“While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the strip, […]

CSotD: Theoretically …

I love Tom Toles’ ability to create genuinely funny cartoons with substance, and much of that humor comes from a simple style that allows, for example, this plummeting European to maintain a completely bland expression as he assesses his situation.As the EU struggles to avoid an across-the-board collapse, it begins to seem like the Black […]

First Superman comic book sells for $2 million

The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year.From Michael Cavna:The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million […]

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