E&P notes that yesterday’s drop in trading hit media companies a bit harder. Here’s the numbers they present: Dow -4.3% S&P 500 -4.8% Nasdaq -5.1% A.H. Belo -3.48% Gannett -5.59% Journal Communications -5.94% Lee Enterprises -15.96% McClatchy -9.66% Media General -2.93% New York Times -7.56% E.W. Scripps -5.62% Washington Post -6.21% H/t: Tom Spurgeon
Today’s La Cucaracha must be provoking some hearty laughter in Lalo Alcaraz’s hometown of Los Angeles.It used to be that the Wall Street Journal was noted in the industry for an editorial page filled with raging, rightwing opinion pieces based on information clearly contradicted in its own pages by its own independent news department. (I […]
Last month it was reported that Paramount Pictures was getting into the animation business with their own studio. They’ve been the distributor for Dreamworks, but Dreamworks has told Paramount it will not extend their agreement (that ends in 2012) for another year. Under their existing deal, Paramount receives 8% of each movie’s revenue for its […]
Faster than a speeding locomotive, news (and photo) is spreading across the internet of the newly released teaser photo of Henry Cavill as the new Superman in the slated 2013 release of the movie Man of SteelThe following are the cast members so far (or rumored where indicated)Henry Cavill (Clark Kent / Superman), Amy Adams […]
Artist, caricaturist and illustrator Sam Norkin has passed away at the age of 94. Sam’s seven decade career centered around theater caricature and his work was published in major newspapers across the U.S. For more than seven decades, Mr. Norkin depicted and described the performing arts in America through his sketches and artworks. During his […]
This story seems very bizarre. A local prosecutor and the police department in Renton WA. are investigating the identity of an animator who goes by the name “Mr. Fiddlesticks” who has been posting South Park style cartoon videos on the web about internal dirt inside the police department.A criminal court document, uncovered by Team 7 […]
Judge Parker is one of the few continuity strips left and, of those few, one of the even fewer that seem to take the form seriously. As you can see from today’s strip, the previous story is wrapping up and a new one is about to launch, so this would be a good time to […]
Bill Holbrook, creator of Safe Havens, Kevin and Kell, and On the Fastrack, has announced he’s posted a free mp3 download for the song “Free Range Love.” In his comic strip Safe Havens the character Bambi is on tour signing “Free Range Love” and to go a long with it, Bill wrote the real song. […]
From the GoComics blog:The title of the blog post is “I JUST FEEL BAD THAT OUR LAWYERS ARE GOING TO MAKE HIM TAKE IT DOWN.” Not sure how serious Universal/Watterson would be about a take down order, but my interpretation of copyright tells me this would fall under fair use.UPDATE: Now that I think about […]
Bill Day, the former editorial cartoonist for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, has been picked up by the Cagle Cartoons syndicate. Bill was previously syndicated through United Features which handed over all their cartoon properties to Universal Uclick this year. Bill will do three cartoons a week.Bill Day via Cagle Cartoons
Peanuts Worldwide and Iconix has announced they’re strategically partnering with several entities to expand the Peanuts brand and products deeper into the digital market. Here are a few of the partnerships and products slated to be released: Peanuts has partnered with Capcom to release a new video game for smartphones and tablets this fall. You’ll […]
Khalid Albaih, a Romanian-born Sudanese cartoonist currently living in Qatar, makes a simple point at Cartoon Movement.Or perhaps it’s not that simple.The current famine in southern Somalia, Southern Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia seems to defy responsible coverage and that’s a good starting point:Both photojournalists and editorial cartoonists have a limited stage upon which to make […]
From Stephan’s blog in which he reveals a failed attempted to knock off Jerry Scott to open more slots on the comic page.:Jerry writes the comic strips Zits (1,600 papers) and Baby Blues (900 papers). And newspaper slots are hard to come by these days. So I devised a plan. It began with a “family […]
Last week the Southern District Court of New York ruled against heirs of Jack Kirby in their suit to reclaim copyright for many of Marvel’s best known characters. The Comics Journal has a great piece on the differences between this case and the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster cases against DC Comics:Some legal observers were expecting Marvel […]
Profiled over at the Boston Globe are KC Green, Andrew Hussie, Jeffrey Rowland, Jeph Jacques, and Richard Stevens who have all gone professional with their webcomics.Webcomics were once seen as a new path to syndication. Comic artists would post their work online, hoping to attract a large enough fan base that syndicates would take notice, […]