After months of delays and becoming a running joke “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will finally open tonight. Here’s a run-down of some of the press it’s gettting: T.V. Carpio, the woman playing the villainess Arachne is interviewed on some of the difficulties the production went through to get to tonight. The Empire State building […]
Tom Racine interviews Rex Morgan, M.D. and Sunshine State cartoonist Graham Nolan on Tall Tale Radio. Topics include his work in comic strips, comic books, and everything his webcomic Sunshine State.
The Ledger, (Lakeland, FL) has added four comics to their comic line-up. They conducted a reader survey that yielded more than 1,200 responses. The new comics include Between Friends , Dustin , Pearls Before Swine and Sherman’s Lagoon. The article didn’t mention which strips were dropped, but mentioned the low vote getters were Sally Forth […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond took the helm of the National Cartoonists Society this year. He has big shoes to fail. Tom succeeds Jef Keane who lead the organization for 2 two year terms. He’s been a member of the professional organization since 1998. I asked him a few questions regarding his new role as […]
As always, a hilarious video via The Doozies and Learn to Draw series creator Tom Gammill:
Actor and director Warren Beatty has announced he’s working on a sequel for the Dick Tracy movie as well as a remastered Blu-Ray of the original Dick Tracy movie he directed and starred in back in the 1980’s.Recently, Beatty won a legal battle with Tribune Media over the movie rights for the Dick Tracy character.Regarding […]
Looks like a new site is up that takes peoples Tweets and tries to match them with random Peanut strip.As far as a parody/mashup experiment – I think it works. Here’s some examples.Follow PeanutTwitter
I came across this letter to the editor and had a “Oh crap! Did Jim forgot to check his calendar again?” The date referenced below is the day before D-Day.The comic strip “Garfield” has long impressed me with its consistent message of aggrandizing anti-social behavior. The strip is a detriment to young readers and an […]
David Paccia has posted a video on how wooden pencils are manufactured over on his David Wasting Paper blog. Almost from the beginning I’ve used mechanical pencils because they keep a sharper line (or consistently tighter line), but when you read through David’s blog, there is still a great many artists that use the good […]
NPR picked up on a webcomic, Pants are overrated, that did a two-part-series called Bacon and Hobbes wherein the artists depict Calvin aged 26 years, married to Susie with a daughter of their own named Bacon. Parody attempts on Watterson’s classic strip isn’t new. I’m not sure what this adds to the Calvin and Hobbes […]
Sad news from Mike Lynch:Veteran cartoonist, animator and creator of the popular DRAW 50 how-to-draw cartoon book series Lee Ames died in a Huntington, NY nursing home last week. He was 90 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure.
Atlanta Magazine delves into the rebirth of Dick Tracy under the new team Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis.For starters, the art is crisp and creative with a strong visual homage to “Tracy” creator Chester Gould’s heyday in the strip in the 1940s and 1950s while the writing is fast-paced and loaded with wit and […]
More attendees of the Reuben Award weekend have posted:Sunday’s Non Sequitur has Wiley Miller’s take on the Reubens.Anne Hambrock has posted cell phone video footage of one of Tom Gammill’s short videos presented to the attendees. Tom was the master of ceremonies. Can’t wait to see the final release from Tom.Stephan Pastis visited MIT while […]
Richard Thompson continues to get positive press after winning this year’s Rueben. He was down in Charlotte this weekend for the Heroes Con and the Charlotte Observer wrote up a profile.A lifelong suburbanite, he’s happy with the lifestyle. From soccer league ordeals to the rituals of school, his experiences provide storylines for the strips. “Petey […]
From The West Australian we learn that Jason Chatfield is still recovering from being dragged by a taxi earlier this year. While the local funnyman is still in rehab for injuries sustained to his writing arm, Chatfield is back at work. He soldiered on to perform 42 shows in 25 days during last month’s Melbourne […]