Yesterday, the House pushed through a bill defunding public broadcasting, in an effort to make a grandstanding ploy to energize their nutbase. The bill probably won’t even get a vote in the Senate, much less pass.I can relate to today’s Knight Life strip, though, because we just went through another pledge drive here. Yet another […]
I’m told The Pearls Before Swine: An Evening with Stephan Pastis event put on by The Cartoon Art Museum has sold out. The book signing is still an option if you want to meet Stephan. The lecture and book signing is this Saturday. If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, check it out.
Later this month the New York Times will implement the long anticipated subscription pay-wall. In a column by Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. the six access scenarios were listed out. They are: On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we […]
Vermont Public Radio interviews New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren about his approach to cartooning.Download MP3 or listen through browser.
Mike Rhode interviews Derf in his Washington City Paper column. WCP: What other type of cartooning or illustration do you do? Derf: I’m a graphic novelist. My last book, Punk Rock & Trailer Parks, was included in the prestigious Best American Comics 2010 and my next one, My Friend Dahmer, a memoir of my teenage […]
The Denver Post Editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has been named the winner of the 2011 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. Keefe’s winning entry for the most recent competition pokes fun at legislation enacted by Arizona last year, the “broadest and strictest in the nation” to curb illegal immigration, according to The New York Times. The […]
Brock Heasley became really close to closing down his five-year-old webcomic Superfogeys after feeling more and more like he needed to devote his time to other things. He was convinced the keep the story going and turn over the drawing to another artist. Starting next week Marc Lapierre’s work will debut.Change is hard. I appreciate […]
The Toonseum in Pittsburgh is sponsoring a fund-raiser for Artists Help Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Fund. Proceeds go to those afflicted by the massive quake and tsunami in Japan. On Saturday March 26th the museum will screen three anime movies from Japan’s greatest contemporary animators. The movies that will be shown that day are: Kiki’s […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced their division awards. The nominees are:TELEVISION ANIMATION Dave Filoni – Supervising Director / Production Designer, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Dan Krall – Art Director, “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated” Scott Wills – Art Director, “Sym-Bionic Titan”FEATURE ANIMATION Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Directors, “How to Train Your Dragon” Glen Keane, Animation […]
Judging from yesterday’s comments, it is widely felt that there is no job as humiliating as not having a job.Okay, well, let’s just let Bug ratchet things up a little here …
Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch has launched the first of a 12 part series of online western movies. First is embedded below.Black Coffee: Chapter 1 of Trails of Tarnation from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo.HT: Robot 6
The nominees for Best Book are: Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly) Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press) Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions) Streakers by Nick Maandag The nominees for Best Emerging Talent are: Aaron Costain, Entropy # 5 Alex Fellows, Spain […]
Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler has a new graphic novel coming out entitled “Oil & Water.” The book is co-written by Steve Duin, metro columnist for The Oregonian.Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Shannon about the book on The Cartoon Bank blog:TCB: Tell us about your trip to the Gulf Coast after […]
Reuters reports that Robert Zemeckis’ $150 million-budgeted “Mars Needs Moms” opening weekend flop was the last straw in a project to remake The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and that Disney has pulled its support. The plan was to use 16 Beatles songs in the film, which was to employ motion-capture technology similar to that used in […]
Derf doesn’t say what this Statue of Liberty clown was selling, but it’s almost certainly Liberty Tax Service, a franchise that pulls this cheesy stunt all across the country.Except that the guy wouldn’t get the job if he were just going to stand there looking humiliated. The Liberty Tax signholders are supposed to dance and […]