Steve Greenberg is launching a new comic strip centered on Baby Boomers. The strip is called Boomerish and will debut in the April issue of “Life After 50.” Lead characters, The strip will follow Dylan and Ronette Groover as they deal with such issues as their changing bodies, their social ideals, the economy, dealing with […]
Signe Wilkinson cuts to the heart — and lungs and other bodily parts — of the Japanese radiation scare.This isn’t to entirely downplay the potential impacts of poorly designed, poorly managed nuclear generators, but, with the initial and perfectly rational concerns over the Fukushima plant answered by the successful prevention of a core meltdown, the […]
As North Africa and the Middle East surge with calls for political reform, and as the election problems in Cote d’Ivoire burst into deadly violence, French cartoonist Bernard Bouton offers this panel at Cartoon Movement, a relatively new site that gathers political cartoon commentary from a variety of global cartoonists.International cartoons tend to be a […]
Rina Piccolo, who draws “Tina’s Groove” and is one of the “Six Chix,” has for the past year also been drawing “Velia, Dear” and, on what I believe if the strip’s first birthday, enters comics history by depicting the main character being groped. Or maybe not.Not that Velia isn’t being groped. She certainly is. The […]
Business Week has picked up The Joy of Tech and is now running the webcomic on their website, iPad and in their weekly magazine. This is a real thrill for us, as we are big fans of the magazine and its tech coverage, and with a circulation of over 917,000, we’ll be reaching a lot […]
Here’s the run down of April Fools day related comic pranks that I’ve found so far. John Glynn announces the Calvin and Hobbes Live Action MovieThere’s a bit of Daddy?s Home in Scary Gary and a bit of Scary Gary in Daddy?s HomeMichael Cavna reports that Disney outsourced Toy Story 4 to a Taiwanese studio. […]
A classic today, in part because part of my out-of-town trip this week involved a teacher workshop in which I asked why children’s historical fiction so often turns out to be both bad fiction and bad history?The worst of these dreadful books are what I call “The Twins Go Back In Time,” in which a […]
Washington City Paper reports the second edition of a new commuter paper is in circulation in the DC area. The paper, “Magic Bullet,” carries comics and sequential art. This issue features more than a dozen artists, so it’s lot more than “not Archie.” There’s Rafer’s own “Nightmare the Rat” strip, starring a demonic Mickey-esque rodent. […]
From Hector over at TheAnimationBlog.com:Disney/Pixar has revealed that the 2012 sequel formerly known as Monsters, Inc. 2 will be officially titled Monsters University. No word yet on whether or not Billy Crystal and John Goodman have signed on to reprise their roles, but it is expected they will be back.Hector also reveals the general plot […]
Brian Walker, comic authority and historian is releasing a new book entitled, “The Comics: The Complete Collection.” Looks like a great book. That bit of gone and long ago would not be news to Brian Walker, son of Mort Walker, the cartoonist who created “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois.” What he doesn’t know about […]
GoComics.com has announced that comics running on their Comics Sherpa comics will do an April Fools Day switcheroo in the same vein as the now infamous Great April Fools’ Day Comics Switcheroonie back in 1997. Visit the Comics Sherpa portion of their site tomorrow to see which artists switched to which strips.The Great April Fools’ […]
Interesting story out of The Washington Post about a 14 year old Brazilian boy who is a regular fixture in the Sao Paulo Journal doing editorial cartoons. At Folha de Sao Paulo, or the Sao Paulo Journal, tradition holds that politicians exist to be skewered, whether they are the regional bosses in Brazil?s outback or […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has extended his brand by creating a rude personality that some people find tiresome but many, many others find hilarious. His blog is a compilation of posts that mostly reinforce the concept of a rude, insensitive boor who often offends people without realizing it, and he has made a […]
Stan Lee has teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to create an animated TV show and comic book about the actor’s post-governor life. The animated TV show and comic book, being co-developed by no less a superhero authority than Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee (pictured, right), won’t be out until next year, but this week EW offers […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has announced the winner of the 2011 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. Diana Huh, a sophomore at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is this year’s recipient. Diana Huh, is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she studies history. Huh was chosen from over 100 […]