David Paccia has posted a video on how wooden pencils are manufactured over on his David Wasting Paper blog. Almost from the beginning I’ve used mechanical pencils because they keep a sharper line (or consistently tighter line), but when you read through David’s blog, there is still a great many artists that use the good […]
The nice thing about a single-panel strip like “Rubes” is that, when Leigh Rubin gives in to the temptation to do a really stupid pun, he doesn’t have any space to tread on it by having characters “react.”I can’t tell you how many times I reject a strip for CSOTD because the cartoonist dulled a […]
NPR picked up on a webcomic, Pants are overrated, that did a two-part-series called Bacon and Hobbes wherein the artists depict Calvin aged 26 years, married to Susie with a daughter of their own named Bacon. Parody attempts on Watterson’s classic strip isn’t new. I’m not sure what this adds to the Calvin and Hobbes […]
Sad news from Mike Lynch:Veteran cartoonist, animator and creator of the popular DRAW 50 how-to-draw cartoon book series Lee Ames died in a Huntington, NY nursing home last week. He was 90 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure.
Cory Thomas’s “Watch Your Head” continues to be one of the most underappreciated and most interesting of syndicated strips.It’s always risky to do gags that require the reader to know the characters and moreso when the characters change. The gang at Oliver Otis University are in constant flux, which — while a rarity in comic […]
Atlanta Magazine delves into the rebirth of Dick Tracy under the new team Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis.For starters, the art is crisp and creative with a strong visual homage to “Tracy” creator Chester Gould’s heyday in the strip in the 1940s and 1950s while the writing is fast-paced and loaded with wit and […]
From the NY Daily News:LOS ANGELES – A politically motivated comic book pitting a blond superhero called “Foreskin Man” against a sinister-looking “Monster Mohel” is causing a serious flap in California. The colorful series was created by the “intactivist” group MGMBill.org as part of its campaign to ban circumcision through ballot initiatives.
More attendees of the Reuben Award weekend have posted:Sunday’s Non Sequitur has Wiley Miller’s take on the Reubens.Anne Hambrock has posted cell phone video footage of one of Tom Gammill’s short videos presented to the attendees. Tom was the master of ceremonies. Can’t wait to see the final release from Tom.Stephan Pastis visited MIT while […]
Richard Thompson continues to get positive press after winning this year’s Rueben. He was down in Charlotte this weekend for the Heroes Con and the Charlotte Observer wrote up a profile.A lifelong suburbanite, he’s happy with the lifestyle. From soccer league ordeals to the rituals of school, his experiences provide storylines for the strips. “Petey […]
From The West Australian we learn that Jason Chatfield is still recovering from being dragged by a taxi earlier this year. While the local funnyman is still in rehab for injuries sustained to his writing arm, Chatfield is back at work. He soldiered on to perform 42 shows in 25 days during last month’s Melbourne […]
It appears having gained freedom from Mubarrak this spring, Egyptians are still working out the free speech part. A conservative group of Muslims took offense to a cartoon by Mustafa Hussein and allege that a recent cartoon of his defamed Islam and made a mockery of Salafists (Salafists being the conservative Muslim group). In retaliation, […]
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 […]