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 […]
The New York Post has implemented a new way of boost downloads to their new iPad app. All iPad traffic accessing their website is being directed to a page instructing them to download their iPad app. No other access via iPad is allowed.Jim Romenesko quotes internet guru Dave Winer:Okay this is bad. This is breaking […]
Hogan’s Magazine has posted its annual photo roundup of the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben award weekend. Photos were taken by David Folkman.
The US State Department has rescinded the invitation to Majed Badra to participate in its International Visitor Leadership Program because of some of editorial cartoons on his website that were deemed “anti-Semitic and extremely objectionable.” The leadership program brings dozens of political cartoonists from around the world to tour the US for three weeks to […]