Interesting rumor from The Mac Observer. Apple may be working on building a set of template tools for iPad-based magazines to include in its Xcode developer tools. Assuming the report is accurate, such a move would give developers a standardized set of tools that could make it easier for creating publications as apps.Also rumored is […]
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly had not one but two articles profiling her this weekend. The Daily Camera writes about her new book “When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman” and the Poughkeepsie Journal delves into her marriage with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin
Interesting story about Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney, who despite the success of his books keeps his “day job” working on the popular children’s website Poptropica.com.“It’s the other great love of my life,” said Kinney, author of the best-selling “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book and movie series. “It’s very difficult to walk away from […]
The opening weekend for Mars Needs Moms was disappointing #5. The feature film which cost $150 million to make only took in $6.8 million on it’s inaugural weekend.Movie was based on Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book of the same title.Last weekend’s winner, Rango – the quirky animated film – dropped to #2.
Non Sequitur on the disconnect between what people say they want and what they want.A lot of politics involves telling people what they want to hear, or telling them things in a way that makes them think that’s what they wanted.For the Fidel Castros, Moammar Ghadafis and Mahmoud Amahdinijads, that means keeping them from […]
Confession: Most days, I compile the CSTOD.com posting first thing in the morning, with a goal of getting it online no later that 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. But when I saw Jimmy Margulies’s cartoon the night before, and knowing that the time change would make posting on time difficult, I went ahead and posted before […]
Yesterday, I promised that, if any cartoons about the disaster in Japan managed to rise above the level of weeping samurai, you’d see it here.Jimmy Margulies, you insensitive lout! Where’s your social conscientiousness?Nice work.
When Wisconsin’s GOP pulled that razzle-dazzle trick the other night, I was reminded of the famous but apparently apocryphal quote from Admiral Yamamoto following the attack on Pearl Harbor about having awakened a sleeping giant. I may not have been the only person for whom it resonated, as Mike Luckovich draws on the overall concept […]
Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, has won the 2010 Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning With a Conscience for a series he did last summer portraying the pressures and difficulties for the poor in Indianapolis. (Read my report on his series)Judges said they found his series entitled “The Path to Hope” “extraordinary in […]
Knoxnews.com talks to Jimmy Johnson, creator of Arlo & Janis, about his career in comics and specifically his work with his strip. Unlike some other strips whose characters remain permanently young, the family in “Arlo & Janis” has aged. “They haven’t exactly aged chronologically. I figure it’s about one cartoon year to every three calendar […]
The Ventura County Star has interviewed Berkeley Breathed about his career in comics, children’s books and movies. The film uses motion capture. How cool does that look in “Mars Needs Moms” and are you happy with the film overall? The film is beautiful ? as they say, they put the money on the screen. More […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has launched a Visiting Artists Blog to showcase the artists-in-residence and visiting artists who come to talk about their art.ht: Tom Spurgeon
Monty has been sitting in a coffeehouse all week, writing great literature on his laptop. In most strips, I use “all week” to mean a story arc that has gone on all week, but in this case, I’m pretty sure he’s been going back every day, because he’s very serious about writing. On a laptop […]
As mentioned in an earlier post about DreamWorks Animation’s release schedule, they are releasing a Shrek spin-off called Puss in Boots this upcoming November. Here is the trailer:
I’ve mentioned Team Cul de Sac before (see link for back story). Artists are starting to submit their artwork and Chris Sparks and Mike Rhode have created a blog to show case them.As of today they’ve got work from Mo Willems, Mark Anderson, Lynn Johnston, Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Shannon Gallant, and David Hagen.Check it out.