The Walt Disney Co. will acquire a 2% equity stake in Webtoon Entertainment Inc., a digital comic and novel platform operator owned by South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., as they team up to build a new digital comics platform featuring the US entertainment giant’s marquee brands, including Marvel and Star Wars. Sookyung Seo at […]
Corus Halts Production At Nelvana Corus Entertainment has paused production at Nelvana Ltd., ending one of the most influential runs in Canadian animation history. The announcement ends a sobering chapter for a studio that, for more than 50 years, helped shape Canada into a recognized global hub for standout and unforgettable children’s content. In an […]
Webtoon Entertainment, the New York-listed parent company of Naver Webtoon, said Wednesday it will adapt some of Disney’s most popular franchises — including Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios — into vertical-scroll webtoons for the U.S. market via a global content partnership with Disney. The company will launch a dedicated Disney section in its […]
For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspired her work and career. Ann is the award winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post. She has won every major prize in editorial cartooning including The National Headliner […]
Yesterday, Tom Heintjes, known to comics historians for the magazine Hogan’s Alley, posted on Blue Sky that it was the anniversary of the first “Davy Crockett, Frontiersman” strip in 1955, which set me to pondering. First thing I pondered was that Jim McArdle’s version of Davy Crockett looked about as much like Fess Parker as […]
If I were doing politics today, I’d want to swap out the parents with Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty in this Wallace the Brave (AMS), because about the best you can say about current politics is that a 50% decency rate isn’t as bad as it could be. I’m not much into awards, […]
When I saw this morning’s Prickly City (AMS), I thought it was going to win the “Bad Timing” award, dropping, as it did, the morning after the House preserved the nation’s credit rating, pending Senate approval which seems a lead pipe cinch. Of course, we still have to see how Wall Street responds to the […]
The familiar advice to new journalists will never become obsolete: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” It might not have saved Dana Summers (Tribune) this time. It is, nonetheless, doubly-good advice, because to begin with, you should always get confirmation before publishing, no matter what kind of no-deadlines pressure you may […]
Andertoons (AMS) picks up today’s Fortuitous Timing Award, particularly since he offers all three possible pleas, including the one that might well emerge if Trump’s lawyers don’t keep a lid on their client. That’s not just my politics wisecracking. There has been significant speculation, including from some attorneys, about the dubious strategy of turning Trump […]
Harry Allard’s 1974 book “The Stupids Step Out” has been banned in many places because it’s not funny to refer to people as “stupid,” though you might try the transactional explanation, “It’s not that you’re stupid. It’s that you do stupid things.” Which seems worse, but I’m not going to defend the term, having merely […]
We’ll start off today with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s cartoon, in which he mashes up the Roald Dahl re-write kerfuffle with the scandal over Fox News’ well-documented decision to promote lies in order to hold audience. He’s got it right: Fox produces fairy tales for its viewers. The woman’s trust has been broken and she’s looking […]
There’s such as thing as being “too smart for the room,” which generally signals a failure because the audience couldn’t keep up. And then there’s Macanudo (KFS), which is frequently, joyously too smart for the room. It probably limits his reach, but he probably doesn’t care. I didn’t recognize the name, but I got […]
Mike Smith (KFS) offers a common though often dubious critique, that the Republicans are flooding us with criticism of the Biden administration without proposing any solutions of their own. I say “dubious” because sometimes an act is so clearly foolish that you only need to point it out; you don’t need to specify the non-foolish […]
(Benjamin Slyngstad) (Pat Bagley) Here are two closely related commentaries on the negative response to diversity and inclusion in fantasy productions, but, while closely related, they differ in some interesting ways. Slyngstad rightfully draws his character as a bigot, but the fellow has half a point: Elves, trolls and orcs are all derived from […]
Mykolas Lukosevicius wasted no time commenting on Macron’s victory in yesterday’s French elections, the caption reading, “So, happy?” Liberty looks anything but, and little wonder after the campaign she’s just endured. She chose the lesser of two evils, and Mykolas offers a bit of a visual joke in that, while her bare breast is taken […]