Video: Team Cul de Sac’s sorting roomChris Sparks, the organizer behind The Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkson’s Disease, has posted video of all the cartoon original submissions. It looks like a great collection and the scope of which the Cul de Sac cast can be inserted into other cartoons and […]
Robert Crumb was the headlining artist at the Australian Graphic arts festival in Sydney, but cancelled after a newspaper ran a headline that read, “Cult genius or filthy weirdo” and quoted anti-child abuse campaigner Hetty Johnsto who raised questions about the appropriateness of Crumb’s attendance.In an open letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Crumb […]
I’d love to attend this:From Batman and Beetle Bailey to Archie and Wonder Woman, the comic book world is rich with a colorful cast of superheroes, villains and other cult creatures. And as a new action-packed, joke-filled exhibition at the UConn Stamford Art Gallery reveals, many of Connecticut’s own artists brought them to life. “Faster […]
Interesting work by songwriter Jascha Hoffman and director Benjamin Harrison who went into the archives and pulled out Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and put together a music video.Winsor McCay was a pioneering animator in his day. It seems somewhat proper that his art is still being used.
A Letter to the Editor in the Baltimore Sun: Lately, I have become increasingly put off by Stephan Pastis’ comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. I enjoy reading the strip but it seems lately there has been a lot more swearing by his characters. The problem I have is that my three children read every comic […]
Interesting post over at Comics Alliance. Charles Forsman got our attention last fall when he imagined Raiders of the Lost Ark in the style of Popeye, but the Snake Oil creator’s latest movie/comic strip remix casting Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws might be even more endearing. Though he’s a fan of the […]
PVP creator Scott Kurtz and Penny Arcade creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins have launched a new webcomic called The Trenches. It’s described as one that “documents the tribulations of software testing with the precision tools of ‘the office comedy.’” Those in the game testing community are welcome to submit their horror stories and some […]
The Philadelphia Daily News and The Inquirer have allegedly cut at least 10 comics between them and raised the newsstand price of their paper. According to Philebrity.com, the Inquirer has cut Sally Forth, Overboard, Non Sequitur, Hagar the Horrible, Rex Morgan M.D., Ziggy, and Lio. In the Sunday edition, they also removed Dilbert. The Daily […]
Got a couple million you want to invest in real estate? A custom home built by Walt Disney in 1932 is up for sale as is a home 1949 home owned by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. The former Schulz home is being described as 7,894-square-foot, 6-bedroom home in Sonoma County. It was purchased by Charles […]
Tom Racine has posted video of his interviews with Brad Guigar (Evil, Inc.) and Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive).http://talltalefeatures.com/2011/08/07/brad-guigar-and-dave-kellett-sdcc-2011/ Other that he’s interviewed of late include Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko’s Modern Life and Camp Lazlo on Nickelodeon and David Lloyd creator of V for Vendetta
Robert Crumb was supposed to be the headlining appearance at the Graphic arts festival in Sydney, but the cartoonist has opted to not go after The Sunday Telegraph described him as a “self-confessed sex pervert” and a “very warped human being.”The newspaper’s story on July 31 featured the headline “Cult genius or filthy weirdo”. In […]
An interesting development in the latest chapter of the Renton Police Department trying to find the identify of the person posting videos mocking them for alleged misconduct. According to KIRO-TV, the police department kind of shopped the case around trying to find a prosecutor’s office that would move an investigation forward.The Prosecutor’s Office said it […]
Artist, caricaturist and illustrator Sam Norkin has passed away at the age of 94. Sam’s seven decade career centered around theater caricature and his work was published in major newspapers across the U.S. For more than seven decades, Mr. Norkin depicted and described the performing arts in America through his sketches and artworks. During his […]
Bill Holbrook, creator of Safe Havens, Kevin and Kell, and On the Fastrack, has announced he’s posted a free mp3 download for the song “Free Range Love.” In his comic strip Safe Havens the character Bambi is on tour signing “Free Range Love” and to go a long with it, Bill wrote the real song. […]
From the GoComics blog:The title of the blog post is “I JUST FEEL BAD THAT OUR LAWYERS ARE GOING TO MAKE HIM TAKE IT DOWN.” Not sure how serious Universal/Watterson would be about a take down order, but my interpretation of copyright tells me this would fall under fair use.UPDATE: Now that I think about […]