Fox Entertainment has announced that Seth MacFarlane is going to resurrect the classic TV animated series The Flintstones. According to Deadline.com the series will begin production this fall with a 2013 premiere on Fox.The Flintstones will be produced jointly by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros Television. Dan Palladino (Gilmore Girls) and Kara Vallow […]
The revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger cheated on his wife 10 years ago isn’t changing production plans for the Governator animated series. From Hollywood Reporter:“It doesn’t affect this movie,” Cry Macho producer Albert Ruddy says of the unfolding Schwarzenegger scandal. “We’re shooting Aug. 24; we’re in serious preproduction now. It hasn’t affected our sales. It’s going […]
It was yesterday. It was 25 years ago. That’s “yesterday,” dammit.”The Elderberries” is one of a tiny sub-category of strips that have improved under new management. It was successful but creatively a bit nondescript until about four years ago, when creator Phil Frank entered the last stages of cancer and Corey Pandolph was called in […]
I figured it would be only a matter of time before Tundra marketing guru Bill Kellogg branched off and began representing other comic strips. The new syndicate launched Monday and is called Ink Bottle Syndicate and represents eight strips: Tundra (Chad Carpenter), That Monkey Tune (Michael Kandalaft), Sunshine State (Graham Nolan), Holy Molé (Rick Hotton), […]
Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has announced he’s bring back his strip – at least as a monthly comic collection. According to Comic Book Resources, Frank took Liberty Meadows on hiatus in 2004 after issue #36. He published a single issue in 2009. Two years ago he signed the rights for the strip to Sony […]
Brian Anderson, the creator of Dog Eat Doug has announced that he’s working on the release of a novel and accompanying webcomic entitled “The Conjurers.” On his blog he writes:As most of you know, I’m hard at work on polishing up the pitch for the novel. At the same time I am also working on […]
The Adventures of Tintin is set to hit theaters this December. The 3D motion capture movie is produced by legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Posters (see below) have been released as well as the trailer. Tintin is based on the be French comic by Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907?1983). It is one of […]
Editorial cartoonists love to take a familiar symbol and adapt it to express an opinion. Weeping Statues of Liberty have become a snide inside joke about lazy, sentimental dreck, after the scores of them drawn in the wake of 9/11. Justice peeking under blindfold is another graphic cliche, while some other cartoonists don’t seem entirely […]
Kurt Westergaard is on trial in absentia in Jordan. That’s not news. What I did find interesting in this Copenhagen Post article was the admission by many in Jordan that the case is nothing more than theater. Speaking to Middle-Eastern news-site The Medial Line, Jordanian attorney Usama Beitar, himself a former member of the “God’s […]
A bit of industry honors about our editorial cartoonist friends up north. Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail is the winner of this year’s National Newspaper Award. Finalists for the big award include Serge Chapleau of the La Presse (Montreal) and Terry Mosher (AKA “Aislin“) of the Gazette (Montreal).
Kory Merritt’s The Lost Side of Suburbia has moved been promoted from Comics Sherpa to GoComics last week after a little more than a year on Comics Sherpa. Kory, who was the 2007 John Locher Award winner and a finalist in the Comic Strip Superstar Contest, say he wanted to try something new, so he […]
If you’re not reading Ink Pen, you’re missing out on a strip that provides a well-tempered combination of wit and nonsense, and one that appeals to me because much of that wit and nonsense is devoted to skewering comics conventions. (The traditions, that is, not the gatherings.)In art, it is a mark of quality to […]
Tony Cochran’s Agnes dwells in an odd niche somewhere between the sweet daydreams of “Heart of the City” and the surreal fantasies of “Calvin,” perhaps with a little of the loveable-loser element of “Big Nate.” But while all those characters make us laugh with their striving, we know that they’re just kids and that, with […]
A large element of the humor in Frazz is the misdirected expectation, as demonstrated here. Are kids more sensitive today, or just completely unaware?I don’t think the current generation of parents even played “Cowboys and Indians” as kids (“Cowboys vs. Indians” is kind of a cheat, by the way). To start with, they were born […]
I LOVE Pixar films. My stomach knotted up after watching this trailer – and not in the good way.