You’ve seen them on Facebook or even participated yourself – the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS wherein if challenged, you dump a bucket of ice water over your head and challenge three others to do the same within 24 hours as well as donate money to ALS Association.Yesterday, Nick Galifianakis threw down the challenge to […]
The link of the day goes to Charles Apple of the Los Angeles Register who created “A quick illustrated look at the history of classic newspaper comic strips“. The graphic above is a small piece of it. The timeline starts in 1895 with The Yellow Kid and continues to 1997 with the launch of Zits. […]
From the Variety: The project has been in the works for several months with Fleischer Studios, owner of the Betty Boop charater, partnering with Syco Entertainment and Animal Logic ? which performed the animation for ?The Lego Movie? ? on a music-driven hybrid animated comedy. Producers are Zareh Nalbandian and Jason Lust from Animal Logic […]
LAST night was the final day of the Stephan Pastis, Bill Watterson Pearls Before Swine strips auction. The final numbers are pleasantly high. Combined the three strips raised $74,000 for Parkinson’s Disease research.Here’s the final numbers for each strip:$35,850 $21,510 $16,730 A big thanks to Bill, Stephan, Chris Sparks and all the behind the scenes […]
The three Pearls Before Swine strips that ran earlier in June that set off an internet wide speculation whether famed Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson was contributing artwork (he was!) were auctioned off last night. The combined value for all three strips was $41,000. Below is the break down of each strip.$11k $19k $11k […]
Cartoonist Guy Gilchrist will be a guest on “The 700 Club With Pat Robertson” tonight. Guy Gilchrist grew up in a poor family and was abused as a child. He wrote a personal song which was more of a poem describing his sorrow and how much he missed not having a Dad at the time. […]
The three Pearls Before Swine strips that Bill Watterson and Stephan Pastis collaborated on are in their last day before auction end. So far, the strips together are being sold for a combined total of $30,000. Individually, they’re going as follows:$9,500: $13,000: /wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/pbs-watterson-small-2.jpg$7,500: As I said, this is the last day of bidding. If you […]
From The New York Times:Jay Maeder, a columnist and editor for The Daily News and The Miami Herald and the last writer of the comic strip ?Annie,? died on Tuesday at his sister?s home in Houston. He was 67. The cause was cancer, his companion, Amanda Hass, said. He lived in Greenwood Lake, N.Y.The Times […]
From Jaunted:The collection of more than 70 cartoons highlights Captain Manno?s wit and talent for the fluid, loosely drawn cartoon style most professional illustrators wish they could achieve. The cartoons range from riffing on the absurdity of passenger requests to musings on the temporary cohabitation of flight attendants and pilots during their time together in […]
Someone had the genius idea of peaking into the trove of Richard Thompson art and had decided to turn them into greeting cards. And really – what would you rather send – a sappy card or one that you’ll spend an extra few minutes looking at the lines, color and expression before sealing the envelope. […]
Lio creator Mark Tatulli’s new book Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters hits book shelves tomorrow. Here’s a teaser of what to expect.Mark is a natural for this genre.
While watching a promotional video of the career of Jeff MacNelly by Tribune Media Services back in the lat ’90’s, I saw Jeff use what looked like both a office pen with a cap that was putting down a line that only comes from a brush. I asked Jeff’s assistant Chris Cassatt if he knew […]
Chester Gould, who created Dick Tracy, appeared on the TV show To Tell the Truth in 1965.
If you can’t get to the Bill Watterson exhibit at Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum at Ohio State University, consider buying Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue. The catalogue will be released at the end of October.Exploring Calvin and Hobbes is the catalogue for an exhibit by the same name at the Billy Ireland Cartoon […]