John Glynn reports that Matthew Inman new book “5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)” has hit #2 on Amazon.com The book is published by Andrews McMeel. Amazon is selling it for only $7.72 (48% off list price.)
Speaking, as we were yesterday, of strips that you need to read for awhile to get, here’s a chance to get in on the groundfloor of a continuity webstrip.Terry Laban, otherwise known as the husband in the husband-and-wife team that creates “Edge City,” has launched a webcomic called “Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hardboiled Shaman,” that will update […]
Terry Laban, co-creator of Edge City, is launching new online graphic novel entitled, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman. Here’s how he describes it:The mean streets of LA have nothing on the frigid forests of Siberia when it comes to danger, and Muktuk Wolfsbreath needs all his shamanic power s to deal with the wicked women, […]
The Sacramento Bee reports that its editorial cartoonist Rex Babin has requested a leave two weeks ago to attend to a health issue. It doesn’t report the issue in question or how long Rex will be out of the office, but suggested anyone wanting to wish him well contact him at: topics@sacbee.com or at our […]
Western animation film Rango took the top seat at the box office last weekend taking in $38.1 million. Rango lassoed $38.1 million on approximately 5,200 screens at 3,917 locations, which surpassed The Green Hornet’s $33.5 million as the top-grossing opening so far in 2011. Though it grossed less than a third of Johnny Depp’s Alice […]
“Watch Your Head” is one of the most character-driven strips out there, with a cast of a half-dozen students at fictional Oliver Otis University, a thinly disguised stand-in for artist Cory Thomas’s alma mater, Howard.It’s not clear what year everyone is, since they are in Comic Strip Time and, like comic strip students everywhere, begin […]
From the press release:Classic works by Jerry Robinson of Batman, Robin and a rogues gallery of villains, including Robinson’s creation, the Joker, can be seen on www.JerryRobinsonArt.com. In the coming days more art by Robinson and other legendary artists will be added. The new web site covers Jerry’s career of over 70 years ? from […]
The Las Vegas Sun ran a full, front page cartoon by their editorial cartoonist Mike Smith. The cartoon is about NASCAR which were in Vegas this last weekend. Probably no other cartoonist knows NASCAR as well as Mike. (He’s even wrote/cartooned a book it).The cartoon was also made into an animated piece for the website […]
The big change is now official. The Comics Journal has relaunched its web edition. This site is divided into several sections which will continue to grow over the days and weeks and months to come: Feature articles, including lengthy interviews, investigative journalism, and long-form critical and historical essays; regular columns on a variety of subjects; […]
Tom Gammill is back – this time at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
Comic book and Rex Morgan, M.D. artist Graham Nolan has announced that his webcomic Sunshine State has been picked up for syndication, but hasn’t announced with which. Launch date is in the May/June timeline and if I had to guess, I’d say it will be through King Features. Either way, Congrats Graham! There are a […]
Ed Power and Melissa DeJesus’ My Cage is back. The short run comic that run through King Features Syndicate is now re-running on GoComics.com as of yesterday. Ed tells me that if there is enough positive response, new comics will be posted. Melissa re-colored the first 2 months of daily strips. The first week had […]
Cul de Sac is on my short list of strips to avoid using every day, to the point where I probably don’t use it some times when it deserves to be here for fear that I’ll start using it way too often, and also for fear that the next day’s offering will be even more […]
Doonesbury continues to explore the gap between the privileged kids who head off to private, four-year colleges after high school, and the working class stiffs who end up in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and trailer parks.Alex should be embarrassed over her lack of empathy for Leo when it comes to goals, but I wouldn’t be […]
The Charlie Sheen phenomenon has gone from curious to overdone in a very short time. There have been a couple of genuinely inventive applications of his disjointed comments — notably the sequence of cat photos at Medium Large and the Peanuts parody by Jimmy Kimmel’s crew — but it is, at heart, a freak show […]