Editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has a Kickstarter project to fund a collection of his cartoons along with essays. Great title too: “Life Begins At Incorporation: cartoons and essays”. I’m in. Glad to see Matt do this.
On the heels of the announcement that comic strip character Heathcliff is being adapted to the big screen, Variety is reporting that Fox and Walden Media have hired Nichole Millard and Kathryn Price to adapt the comic strip Family Circus to a feature film. A Family Circus movie has been in development since 2010. The […]
Susan Karlin looks at the new coffee table book “Totally Mad” about the last 60 years of MAD Magazine for Fast Company magazine. The original Mad men were a group of subversive cartoonists and writers poking fun at anything that carried the slightest hint of authority. Today?s editorial crop have a much harder job–satirizing folks […]
Colin Druce-McFadden writes over at Dvice.com “16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world” So why did Google drudge up a name that most of us never knew? Same-day reporting mentioned that he was an animation pioneer, influenced Walt Disney, was a vaudevillian comedian and things of that nature. To my mind, this hardly […]
D.C. Parsons, a student cartoonist at The Daily Wildcat, has been fired and the student paper is apologizing after running a cartoon (during LGBT History Month) that depicts a father and son laughing at a derogatory joke. The cartoon depicts a father telling his son that if he ever comes out of the closet that […]
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub interviewed Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. The interview is void of Stephan’s typical ego-centric replies and gets to the heart of his work on the strip. Q: What’s a word you’d love to use in your strip but you can’t because it’s the comics page? A: “That sucks” […]
Rob Tornoe interviewed Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson about the decision to end the strip. Some of the answers are canned responses that I’ve seen else where. But a couple include new information. Now that you’ve created a bit of free time for yourself, do you have the strength to work on any personal […]
Michael Cavna reports on the recent ruling in California that denies the Shuster family a stake in copyright ownership of the Superman character. On Wednesday, the perpetual fight – now waged by the descendants – got its latest crucial plot twist: A federal judge in California has ruled that Shuster’s heirs cannot reclaim copyrights to […]
Waterman Entertainment (executive producer for Casper, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Stuart Little) has announced that it has acquired the film rights to the comic strip Healthcliff from Peter Gallagher who produces the comic strip. The strip will be a CGI/live action film.From the press release: “Their track record is impeccable. Casper, Stuart Little and Alvin […]
Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist David Horsey was part of a State Department sponsored exhibit in the Ukraine where famous historical editorial cartoons and some of David’s contemporary cartoons were on display. In this video, David talks about some of the enduring symbols of editorial cartooning throughout history.
Fast Company’s Matthew E. May profiles Scott McCloud and how some of his theories of comics apply to the business world. And as for the “invisible art,” we learned that the magic and mystery of comics does not live in what is drawn. Rather, it is the “gutter”–the white space between the frames–that holds the […]
Tom Spurgeon, the editor/writer at The Comics Reporter, has donated a sizable personal collection of 1,300 mini-comics to The Dylan Williams Collection at the The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.From the press release: As soon as The Dylan Williams Collection was announced, Spurgeon answered the call for donations. “I admired Dylan […]
The Press-Telegram profiles The Pajama Diaries creator Terri Libenson who’s strip recently replaced For Better or For Worse. Libenson says pushing the envelope is “a part of the honesty of the strip, because Jill has a relationship with her husband regardless of having kids. “But like me … she’s trying to be everything to everyone, […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted a great account of his experience having brain surgery. He’s also posted a couple of remarkable sketches. In his words: Dr. Kalhorn counted off how deep he was positioning the first wire. When it got to where it’d do the most good he’d turn on the current […]
Phil Dunlap has decided to retire his strip Ink Pen. It was launched in 2005 and even optioned for animated film in 2006. Phil will keep the strip alive on GoComics with weekly strips.Regarding the decision to end his syndication run: Yes, Ink Pen will be ending as a syndicated daily newspaper feature, for all […]