You won’t get this Madam & Eve without you have seen this viral video from YouTube of a meeting between a hapless cyclist and a hartebeest:While the M&E gang apply it to South African events — and, hey, it happened down there, so they’re more than entitled to take it local — I don’t think […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall was commissioned to draw several cartoons for the movie “Ides of March” which involves a plot about a fictional presidential campaign. Here’s Ted’s email explaining his involvement. Earlier this year I received a phone call that led to one of the more interesting cartooning assignments of my career. The set designer […]
I reported a couple of years ago that Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe had been optioned for a movie by Sony Pictures. The movie has now taken one step close with the hire of Kelly Asbury to write the adaptation. Kelly was the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet.
Today’s Strange Brew make me laugh without provoking any great diatribe except that I’m really, really tired of zombies. Which I’ve already said, and yet they don’t stop.This is a good example of re-purposing a creaky premise. Vampires and blood banks have certainly met on the funny pages before, but in the current hard times, […]
This is the Learn to Draw video shown at this last year’s Reuben Award weekend. It’s also Tom Gammill’s 30th episode. In this installment, Foxtrot creator Bill Amend teaches recently retired Cathy Guisewite what to do with all her spare time.
Fleen blogger Gary Tyrrell has been helping Mia Wiesner (of the University of Applied Sciences in Liepzig) conduct a study of purchasing attitudes for digital comic content. He’s posted initial findings and has a more in depth look at the implications of the numbers yesterday.Final statistic for you: the largest single age cohort in the […]
Cory Pandolph, cartoonist for The Elderberries and creator of Bark Eater Lake and Toby, Robot Satan, sold a cartoon to The New Yorker back in June. The cartoon was published in this week’s edition. You can see the cartoon on The New Yorker’s website.
Loose Parts by Dave Blazek. And I can tell him what a couple of those mysterious buttons are for:1. Turn on the cable box but not the television.2. Now turn on the television but turn off the cable box.3. Disable the 1, 3 and 7 buttons on the key pad.
I’ve been watching the editorial cartoons dealing with the passing of Apple CEO and icon Steve Jobs. The subject is so rich with icons, imagery that I knew it was going to be heyday for cartoonists – and that several cartoonists would use the same imagery to create similar cartoons.Steve Jobs was an original, but […]
I have met John Hambrock, creator of “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee,” and his wife and colorist, Anne, but did not ask them for ID. Still, I suspect neither was born when the Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan performing “Little Red Rooster.” At least, they don’t look 47.This isn’t that performance, but it will […]
Today’s installment over at The Road to Syndication has King Feature Comic Editor Brendan Burford and Gil creator Norm Feuti talking about character dynamics.During the development period, we explored all of the different interactions that can occur between each of the characters. Norm was essentially forming his characters? personalities based on how they interacted with […]
Things must be somewhat settle. I haven’t seen many reports of comics being dropped/picked up in a while. There are a few to report. Michael Cavna reports that the Washington Post is now running Frazz in their Style section daily. Apparently Frazz was running in the KidsPost but not daily. The Post also moves Doonesbury […]
You may wish to put a dishtowel under your computer to catch some of the dripping sarcasm in Matt Bors’s current commentary. Or read it straight up and assume he’s my age.Sarcasm is a difficult tool because, to begin with, there are a great many people with no sense of irony, and, in addition, it’s […]
20th Century Fox TV has told TheWrap that even though the voice talent and producers have agreed to a pay cut for this upcoming season, the show “is no longer profitable for the network.” Reuters reports that the network has made over $1 billion in its 23 season.From Entertainment Fix:An unnamed executive from US network […]
When cartoonists and cartoon fans talk about their early influences or the ones that really got them interested in comics as a medium, the strips you hear about tend to be the groundbreakers, like Barnaby, Pogo, and Peanuts. I liked those strips, though I only saw Barnaby in a collection my parents had and Walt Kelly’s […]