Pat Bagley on how far we’ve fallen in four decades.There was a time when political leaders thought about their positions on various issues. They certainly weren’t immune to the concept of party loyalty, but neither were they slaves to it. We could justifiably point to Congress and say we preferred our system to Parliamentary democracy, […]
A major advantage of webcomics is short deadlines, and so The New Adventures of Queen Victoria is able to jump on this week’s announcement by DC Comics that they are rebooting their line of comics and starting over, including numbering their next issues as “#1.”Apparently, she are not amused, or impressed.If you pursue that link […]
I love disclaimers.I love the lawyer-directed disclaimers, like the one on the Q-Tips box that warns you not to stick the Q-Tip in your ear. Obviously, they don’t want to get sued if you puncture your ear drum with their product, but, really, what would happen to sales of Q-Tips if everybody heeded that warning?And […]
Hollywood Reporter reports that Paramount Pictures has purchased the rights to New Kid by Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.The project is an adaptation of an online comic from Penny Arcade. The studio has picked up rights and tapped Book of Eli writer Gary Whitta to pen the script. Mary Parent and Cale […]
The Janesville Gazette has an interesting profile on Mr. Bofo creator Joe Martin. Included is info on his three comics, “Mr. Bofo,” “Willy n? Ethel,” and ?Cats with Hands? and his pioneering efforts to embed QR codes (quick response) into his feature. But in the last three decades, Martin has built one of the industry?s […]
The poor old Food Pyramid has gone from helpful to pointless to meaningless, and Bad Reporter is about as accurate in satirizing it as the USDA has been in improving it. Despite how the newscasters derided it in the process of reading the USDA and FLOTUS press releases introducing the new whateverthehellitis on last night’s […]
USA Today looks at the success of DeviantArt – a website for artists to post their work and get attraction.LuVisi’s experience isn’t a rarity. Many artists talk of finding work and careers through their exposure on DeviantArt, a site that has been around for 11 years and now attracts more people looking at art daily […]
More bad news.U.S. newspaper advertising revenue fell 7 percent during the first three months of the year. That left the industry?s quarterly ad revenue at its lowest level in 27 years. Combined print and online advertising revenue totaled $5.6 billion in the first quarter. That compared with $6 billion a year earlier.
Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic The Oatmeal, has had to threaten legal action against FunnyJunk.com – a user-generated content site that had about every one of Matthew’s comics mirrored on the site with no link backs or in some cases acknowledgement of who the original artist was. Ars Technica reports on the fight to […]
It’s tough being a cartoonist today, because the world seem determined to turn any gag, no matter how silly or far-fetched, into reality. Take today’s “The Duplex,” for example.That’s not a gag. That’s a report on the state of the union.In going through today’s comics, there were several political cartoons taking the media to task […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages exhibit continues across the US and he was able to land it in Boston in time for the NCS Reuben Awards last weekend. BackBay Patch has a great write-up of the exhibit and the attendees.There was no shortage of cartoon royalty on hand, from Bill Keane […]
Interesting news from USA TodayDC will re-number its entire line of superhero titles, beginning with all-new No. 1 issues starting Aug. 31 ? 52 in all, including a new Justice League No. 1. Fittingly, the publisher put its creative superteam on its trademark superhero superteam. Guided by writer Geoff Johns and artist Jim Lee, Justice […]
Here’s a chance to get in at the start of a new adventure on a relatively new comic. “The Lost Side of Suburbia” is a clumsy name that doesn’t address the topic or voice of Kory Merritt’s strip, but it’s worth putting that aside and plunging into a storytelling strip with some appeal.LSoS is a […]
As attendees of the 2011 National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award weekend return home and post their thoughts, experiences and photos of the previous weekend, I’ll link to them here.One pre-Reuben item: this weekend, Tom Richmond takes the helm of the NCS for a four year term as NCS President replacing outgoing president Jef Keane. Correction: […]
The LA Times reviewed the traveling exhibit of The Art of Tim Burton that originated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In all 700 or so artifacts from his original sketches and movie memorabilia are on display.The LA Times wasn’t that impressedArt museums often have a tough time with shows about […]