TIME magazine has listed their top 25 animated films of all time. Here’s the link to the start (#25). You have to go through 25 pages to get to the number one. I’m going to spare you a bit of time by giving you 25-6. The last five you’ll have to visit their site.25. Lady […]
Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith took first place in the Best of the West journalism contest. The Best of the West is an award honoring professional journalists in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Second place went to Mike Keefe of the Denver […]
On Tuesday, Gannett laid off 700 people at their papers around the country, in an attempt to save money and maximize short-term profits. Although this sort of short-staffing handcuffs local papers and makes it virtually impossible for them to matter to the people in their own communities, it does have other benefits. In this case, […]
The Saturday Evening Post’s Diana Denny profiles Randy GlasbergenThere’s always someone around the corner ready to make a liar out of you. I’ve recently told you how hard it is to be a cartoonist. Except for Randy Glasbergen, who sold his first cartoons to the The Saturday Evening Post while still in high school.Excellent selection […]
There’s a big announcement from Harry Potter author JK Rowling today and quite honestly the scope of everything she’s doing is pretty big. On the surface, she’s building an online community called Pottermore that will feature an online store and other interactive features that have been described as “illustrated environments” and not games. One of […]
When word came yesterday that Gannett was laying off upwards of 700 employees across their chain, it had potential to impact a staff cartoonist. As far as I can tell, Doug MacGregor of the Ft. Myers News-Press was the only cartoonist casualty this round. Doug has been with the News-Press since 1988 and has been […]
Today’s last edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man reveals the death of Spider-Man at the hands of the Green Goblin. To be clear, this is a spin off comic much like the story-line of The Amazing Spider-Man in newspapers is different than those in the comic shop. From NPR: But this new, younger Ultimate Spider-Man wasn’t […]
DreamWorks Animation has released the theatrical trailer for the Shrek spin off Puss In Boots. The movie is directed by Chris Miller (Shrek the Third). Voicing the movie includes Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris.The movie opens November 4th in 2D and 3D.
The Doozies creator Tom Gammill produces another great Learn to Draw. In this episode, Tom visits Arnold Roth and his wife Caroline in New York City. This was originally debuted at the NCS Reuben Award weekend.If you’re not familiar with Tom’s Learn to Draw series, get a cup of your favorite beverage and sit back […]
Today’s Bug had me right at the first panel. You don’t get a lot of space to introduce a topic in a comic strip. This is subtle, yet effective. The jack-in-the-box makes it.But the insanity of that abrupt intro masks the fact that the strip makes a profound historical argument: Whatever happened to Occam’s Razor? […]
Ron Howard is rumored to be direct a live-action movie adaptation of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. According to Deadline.com reports that the “film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.” No date has given. Other names attached to the project include David […]
John Glynn over at Universal Uclick posted news that this week Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap is drawing the Adam@Home comic and Corey Pandolph The Elderberries/Toby Robot Satan/Barkeater Lake is doing this Sunday’s strip after Rob Harrell broke his foot at during the Reuben Awards weekend and the recovery involved heavy pain killers rendering him […]
Sad news for Gannett employees. Gannett said it would eliminate 700 jobs in its Community Publishing division, laying off 3 percent of its employees across newspapers like The Courier-Journal of Louisville, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Indianapolis Star. The company’s flagship paper, USA Today, just went through a round of cuts last summer and will […]
A Danish appeals court has upheld the guilty verdict of Mohamed Geele who allegedly attempted to murder Kurt Westergaard in his home with an axe on New Years Day 2010. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison, a $2,000 fine and expulsion from Denmark when his sentence is over. Both the prosecution and defense […]
Harry Bliss, in his eponymous cartoon, touches a nerve.A good friend moved to Japan to teach at a university there. He said that most Japanese colleges don’t really do a lot of actual instructing so much as they provide a venue for students to meet each other, make contacts and prepare for life after […]