I’ve never been a big fan of the sort of international editorial cartoons that consist of metaphors instead of storytelling. I don’t necessarily want a gag, and, in fact, direct attempts at humor generally seem forced,though there are some cartoonists, like David Horsey, whose art style works well with sarcasm.But I generally want a coherent […]
Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell was awarded the 2011 Clampett Award at the Eisner awards ceremony at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The award is named after Bob Clampett, director of countless popular Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of Beany and Cecil.Past winners include Jeannie Schulz, Ray Bradbury, Sergio Aragonés, Archie Goodwin, Jack Kirby, Will […]
Maurice Sendak, probably most famous for his childrens book Where the Wild Things Are will be publishing his first in nearly 30 years. The new book is called Bumble-Ardy and will hit shelves in September. But in terms of a book completely his own, Bumble-Ardy is the first since 1981’s Outside Over There. Not that […]
Thanks to John Deering of Strange Brew for providing the silly joke I was just in the mood for.Smokey stars in about as many jokes and cartoons as he does public service announcements. He has got to be one of the most successful promotional characters ever created. When I was a little guy, I thought […]
On the heals of the news of Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Steven’s ending of Oh Brother! comes more positive news for Bob. On August 12, 50 of his favorite Spot-The-Difference panels from his Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids feature will be available on the iPhone or iPad. The app will be introduced to […]
Jay Stephens and Bob Weber, Jr are ending Oh Brother! due to lack subscribing papers just after one year in syndication. The strip was launched June of 2010 by King Features.In an email to me, Bob writes:The Oh, Brother! syndication has ended. The comic failed to gain enough of a foothold. Obviously It didn’t help […]
A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed the mayor of Kandahar city by hiding the explosive device under his turban. The tactic is reminiscent of the Kurt Westergaard caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that incited protests and rioting that left over a 100 people dead.Adopting turban bomb as weapon by […]
The governor of Vermont announced that the Center for Cartoon Studies and the town of Hartford have been awarded a $255,000 grant to launch the Inky Solomon Center. The center will be a “a state-of-the-art industry center designed to help CCS alumni launch projects, incubate start-up companies and create jobs.”Leveraging the world-class talent already attracted […]
Former San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley’s lawsuit against his former paper is heading back to court after an appellate court reinstated it after it was thrown out in 2009. At issue is whether the newspaper threatened Steve Breen with his job if he continued to collaborate with Kelley on the comic strip Dustin […]
It’s common for cartoonists of domestic strips like “Zits” or “the Lockhorns” to hear, “You must be looking in our windows!” from people who see their own lives reflected in the strip.With this story arc, however, Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson is venturing into Vulcan Mind Meld territory. I cannot wait to see how […]
A jury says DreamWorks Animation did not steal the idea of Kung Fu Panda from Terence Dunn who claimed he pitched the movie about a “spiritual kung-fu fighting panda bear” back in 2001.At one point, Dunn claimed he was entitled to a percentage of the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the films. […]
Hard to argue with this logic.Rob Miller writes pop culture commentary for the Norwich Bulletin
Anne Hambrock who works on her husband’s strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has announced that she’s organized a new comic festival called the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. The project started when Carthage College Gallery Director inquired about bringing John Read’s “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” to Kenosha and Anne opted to […]
IO9’s Cyriaque Lamar caught up with Bone creator Jeff Smith to talk about his 20th anniversary and RASL. When did you know you could keep going with the series? The first issue of Bone shipped 20 years ago this month, so this is our twentieth anniversary. I think it was really when we made the […]
The Om Nom character from the iPhone game Cut the Rope is getting it’s own digital comic. The hero of the game, the little green candy muncher Om Nom is getting his own digital comic. The comics will be designed by Ape Entertainment and are set to hit the Apple App Store in late August. […]