Charles Brubaker found this 4 minute slice of a Jim Henson film of The Wizard of Id.

Grand Avenue on the scourge of grandparents with cameras. Which could also be the scourge of parents with cameras, except that Grand Avenue is about a grandmother raising a pair of twins.Whoever does it, there are adults who manage without a great deal of effort to teach kids to Stop, Turn and Grin whenever someone […]

The official trailer of the new “Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown” film is now available. I wrote about this back in February and how the Schulz family worked hard to keep this film true to the other Charlie Brown movies despite not having Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez.Here’s the trailer.

I guess after spending $65 million, the pressure is on to keep the showing going – or in this case – just get the show opened. But as Michael Cavna reports a fifth performer has been reported. This time it’s T.V. Carpio who was injured in a battle scene. She’s out for two weeks.

The Syracuse New Times has lengthy piece on Dan Reynolds, his comics, and his growing involvement in his community.While he’s nationally known and has his share of followers in Central New York, many of those followers don’t realize he lives among them. “I’m in a weird situation,” he says. “I do my work here locally […]

Universal Uclick has announced that it has added Politico’s editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker to their list of syndicated editorial cartoonists. Matt was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 and 2010. He’s also won the Herblock Prize and the Berryman Award. “Matt Wuerker is a standout among the high-profile political cartoonists working today,” said […]

Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher was invited to give a TED Talk at the TEDx Warwick conference at Warwick University in the UK. He choose to speak on “The Magic and Power of Caricature.” His talk is now available. See below:You can keep up with KAL (who usually has several things going on) on his blog.

The current story arc in “Retail” has been so tightly paced that, having not featured it at the start, I’ve been loathe to suggest dropping in midway. However, I think it’s worth doing, and you could even go back to the 15th  and start at the beginning.The arc is about Marla taking a day off […]

Bob Andelman, AKA Mr. Media has a great four part interview with Hagar the Horrible cartoonist Chris Browne. Here are the four parts nicely embedded.

A UK man is claiming that the movie Cars is based on a screenplay and treatment he sent to various studios, including Disney.Jake Mandeville-Anthony filed the claim this week in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, he created a three-part screenplay titled “Cookie & Co.,” about the true-life adventure race-car driver Michael Owen Perkins, […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists is reporting that six Libyan journalists are missing after three spoke out against Moammar Gaddafi. One of the journalists is editorial cartoonist Mohamed al-Amin. At least six local journalists who spoke critically of government policies are also missing, although there is wide speculation that they are in the custody of […]

In the current Cul de Sac arc, Petey succumbs to peer pressure and agrees to sign up for soccer, poor lad. Not only does this jolt our little Oblomov out of his bed, but it puts him squarely in the sunshine, among grass and peers.No good can come of this.When my boys were boys, I […]

Chris Onstad’s webcomic Achewood is going on hiatus – at least temporarily. Chris outlines his plans on a temporary blog after the news swamped his servers.On why he’s putting it on the backburner:Another nagging idea which slowly grew from a whorl in the tub to a Pacific gyre was that, as I wrote piece after […]

The Dueling Banjo blog showcasing various illustrators drawing on the theme of “banjo playing pigs” will quickly become an exhibit. The exhibit will open at on April 1 and run through April 29 at the Terra Nova Gallery in Provo Utah. If you’ve participated on the blog visit the announcement or contact Stacy Curtis or […]

Parade Magazine put “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” creator Jeff Kinney on the cover of Parade Magazine and profiled inside yesterday’s edition. Kinney visited this same store four years ago to sign copies of the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid. At the time, no one knew whether a book based on a Web comic […]