NYT reports that Joanne Siegel has passed away at the age of 93. Joanne was a Cleveland teen during the Depression and was the model used by Joe Shuster to create the Lois Lane character.A high school girl with an ambitious nature and stars in her eyes, young Joanne, like teenagers everywhere, was seeking a […]
NPR reports that graphic novelist and The New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine created a comic to give to his wedding guest. When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors: a customized chocolate bar? A personalized mug? Then Brennan had an idea. Tomine is […]
Politifact.com decides to fact check Sunday’s Doonesbury strip that claims since 9/11 “270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.”We began by contacting Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who has drawn Doonesbury for more than four decades. He got back immediately with a summary of his methodology. “The final figure lacks precision, because it’s extrapolated,” Trudeau […]
Tom Spurgeon cites reports on rumors that Comics Comics will be taking over The Comics Journal “in some fashion” in the near future.This morning’s rumor cited here and here is that the Comics Comics team in some fashion will be taking over The Comics Journal, which would be awesome, would certainly fit the criteria for […]
Last month I wrote that Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, was going to be on Writers Talk. That program is now online. For those in the Ohio area you can see it on the big screen (your TV) on February 24 @ 4 pm. For the rest of us, we’ll have to settle for the […]
Madam & Eve touches on a cultural footnote that came up in South Africa’s recent World Cup tournament: For all the changes that have gone on in that country over the past quarter century, you can’t simply legislate some things.Rugby is largely a white sport, with its fanbase in the Afrikaner community. Football (soccer) is […]
Nick Galifianakis has a new book entitled, “If You Loved Me, You’d Think This Was Cute: Uncomfortably True Cartoons About You” – and as you might guess it’s about love and relationships.NPR talks to Nick about the book. Mike Rhode, Tom Toles, Richard Thompson and Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax were on hand for […]
This year Mark Anderson’s Andertoons.com turns 10. Mark started the website to post samples of his work but kept adding cartoons and features. Now it’s a leading cartoon bank with thousands of cartoons for purchase or to commission an original. Mark plans on taking his cartoons on the road this summer to various fairs and […]
A reader of the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) took issue with a story-line in Mike Peter’s Mother Goose and Grimm regarding a Chernobyl Amusement Park. The story line ran February 8 through the 12th. The reader writes: Today, in 2011, the statistics and the continued nuclear radiation poisoning from the disaster will continue to […]
The Dakota County Tribune Business Weekly has great profile of MAD Magagzine cartoonist Tom Richmond and how he became a MAD Magazine regular, his caricature business and his obsession with Batman. Richmond broke in after “relentlessly” sending his work to the magazine’s art department and meeting twice with the art director in the summer of […]
Jen Sorensen usually draws “Slowpoke,” a cartoon of political and social commentary that tends towards the cynical and the sarcastic. Who knew she had both a warm and somewhat athletic side?Alan Gardner, for one, whose Daily Cartoonist tipped me to this cartoon-travelogue Jen did for the Oregonian about a recent skiing-and-poking-around trip she took to […]
There have been leaked photos of Andrew Garfield dressed up in Spider-Man attire, but today Sony has released an official photo and the title to the next Spider-Man movie due out July 2012. The title is a throwback to the original comic book title, “The Amazing Spider-Man” and the photo clearly shows that in this […]
Funny stuff and Valentines Day Appropriate
The Cartoon Museum in London is now displaying private drawings created by Ronald Searle that he drew while his wife was battling cancer. In 1969, Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer and given only a few months to live. She was offered a course of what in those days was seen as an experimental form […]
The ridicule continues…H/T: Michael Cavna