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Matt Wuerker reviews Pat Oliphant exhibit

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker has written a review of Pat Oliphant’s traveling exhibit entitled “Leadership: Oliphant Cartoons and Sculpture From the Bush Years.” When you walk into the exhibit, you’re first struck by two giant charcoal caricatures, one of the late President Ronald Reagan as a cowboy and the other of former President George [...]

Section: Editorial cartooning

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“Bone” panel discussion notes

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Caleb Mozzocco attended the recent opening of Jeff Smith’s Bone exhibit at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and Wexler Center and the panel discussion with Jeff and Scott McCloud. He’s posted extensive notes about the exchange, so if you missed it, this is a very good summary. He spent a few years trying [...]

Section: Exhibits

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Wall-E “Eve” character inspired by iPod

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Fortune reports that Wall-E character “Eve” was inspired by Apple’s iPod and in fact, Pixar brought in Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, to consult for a day on the character’s design. “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to [...]

Section: Animation

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New York Times profiles Lynda Barry

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The New York Times has an interesting profile of alternative newspaper and author cartoonist Lynda Berry and the ups-and-downs of her career. She had an unpleasant childhood but was able to attend college where she became friends with Matt Groening, creator of Life in Hell and The Simpsons. It was there that she started [...]

Section: Cartoons

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Serge Chapleau wins 6th National Newspaper Award

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Serge Chapleau, editorial cartoonist for the La Presse, has been awarded his sixth National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning. You can see his work at his paper’s web site.

Section: Awards

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NPR talks about Charlie Brown character

May 13, 2008 by Alan Gardner

NPR ran an interesting piece on the resilience and lovability of Charles Schulz’ character Charlie Brown yesterday They explain how a character so miserable, picked on and so unlucky could be so easily identified by millions of people. They also interviewed Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse and children’s book author Judith [...]

Section: Comic history

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News Briefs for May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

» Jack Bender, current cartoonist on Alley Oop will be attending this year’s national Tarzan convention in Waterloo, IA this year. Bender is a native of Waterloo and has an extensive collection of Tarzan art. He’ll discuss Tarzan art while there. » Slashfilm.com is reporting that Frank Miller will be directing a live action remake of [...]

Section: Comic history

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This week’s comic page changes

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Here are the comic pages that I’ve found this last week. The Detroit News has added Keith Knight’s The Knight Life to it’s line up. The News Tribune, (Tacoma, WA) is adding Zits, Baby Blues, and Pooch Cafe. To make room, Mary Worth, B.C. and World of Wonder are being dropped. The paper said the change was [...]

Section: Comic strips

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New CG Star Wars movie due in August

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial [...]

Section: Animation

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Caswell, Filipi talk about new ‘Bone’ exhibit

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Jeff Smith’s joint exhibit his Bone comic opened up last weekend at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and Wexner Center for the Arts. WizardUniverse.com’s Kiel Phegley interviewed the two curators Lucy Caswell and David Filipi. David, you may have just answered my next question, but I was wondering for each of you, what was [...]

Section: Exhibits

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AAEC joins NCS in opposition to Orphan Works Act

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The AAEC has issued an open letter to the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Courts opposing the current Orphan Works legislation that is working its way through congress. In a joint letter, Nick Anderson, President of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Jeff Keane, President of the National Cartooning Society, they wrote, The [...]

Section: AAEC

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NCS urges opposition to Orphan Works Act of 2008

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

The National Cartoonists Society board and Stu Rees, NCS Attorney, have sent out the following email to its members asking them to oppose the Orphan Works Act of 2008 that is currently making its way through congress. Dear National Cartoonists Society Member: The NCS Board and Stu Rees (NCS legal counsel) are taking the unusual step of [...]

Section: National Cartoonist Society

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Mark Heath ends ‘Spot the Frog’

May 12, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has announced that he is ending his comic strip about six months shy of its fifth anniversary. The last day for dailies is July 5th with the last Sunday running June 29th. He says that lack of client newspapers is the reason behind his decision.

Section: Comic strips

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Get a first year Garfield original for $5k

May 9, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Ted Dawson over at “Three Men in a Tub” blog reports that an original Garfield comic strip is for sale an eBay store for $4,499. The seller writes that it is thought to be the 25th strip published in papers and one of the earliest Garfield originals to be sold publicly. Disclaimer: With all auctions, online [...]

Section: Auctions

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13th Kevin & Kell collection to be released

May 9, 2008 by Alan Gardner

Moonbase Press has announced that it will be releasing the thirteenth collection of cartoonist Bill Holbrook’s webcomic “Kevin & Kell” on June 26, 2008. The book, which features the strips from 2006, follows the Dewclaws’ extended family through a variety of adventures and changes in their lives. First, Kevin runs for school board [...]

Section: Books

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