Stripped scores audio interview with Watterson; pushes for more funding
“Stripped” documentary creators Fred Schroeder and Dave Kellett scored a major coup gaining audience with Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson for an interview to be included in their documentary. While the film is largely complete, the two are raising money again to help pay for the licensed footage used in the film. So here’s [...]
Posted on: Mar 12, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
Wanna be on TV? Are you a walking cartooning encyclopedia?
I was forwarded a note that a casting agent is looking for someone with “encyclopedic knowledge of cartoons” to be on a prime-time TV game show. Here’s the information from Gina (the casting agent). Her email is below. Send her your info if you’re interested. If you are selected, please let me know so I [...]
Posted on: Jan 31, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 6 Comments
Help fund MAD documentary
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1438570989/when-we-went-mad-a-documentary-of-ecch-ic-proportiThis looks like a great project. My name is Alan Bernstein – I am the Co/Producer and Director of the movie When We Went MAD! a documentary that explores the history and influence of MAD Magazine. Whether you grew up reading MAD, had a brother or sister who read it, or remember a parent who [...]
Posted on: Jan 30, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Magazine cartoons, Magazines, Comments: 0 Comments
East Coast Success in Comics Seminar one month away
The third Success in the World of Comics Seminar being held in Annapolis, MD is drawing closer. The seminar is slated for February 16 & 17. Tundra creator Chad Carpenter and business partner Bill Kellogg do a great job hosting this informative event. If you’re interested in the business side of cartooning, this is the [...]
Posted on: Jan 15, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Jerry Robinson family donates originals to CAM
The family of Jerry Robinson, creator of Batman characters The Joker and Robin has donated 60 pieces of original cartoon art to the Cartoon Art Museum. Most pieces are art from other famous cartoonists such as George Herriman, Bud Fisher, Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly and Winsor McCay. From SFWeekly: The donation largely consists of comic [...]
Posted on: Jan 14, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Interviewed: Mr. Media interviews Mark Anderson
Bob Andelman aka Mr. Media interviews Andertoons cartoonist Mark Anderson. But Anderson was driven to find a way. He worked a day job to pay the bills and spent his pre-dawn and late-night hours drawing comics for whatever customers he could find – magazines and newspapers, sure, but also greeting card companies, trade publications, corporations [...]
Posted on: Jan 8, 2013, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
Bazooka Joe is gone. And that’s fine. Really.
From Business Insider: As a part of Bazooka Gum’s new makeover — and first advertising campaign in five years — the company is getting rid of its beloved comic strip. So while you’ll start seeing the gum on the shelves of Target, 7-Eleven, and other stores that haven’t stocked it in years, it will be [...]
Posted on: Dec 4, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 19 Comments
Success in Comics seminar heads to east coast
Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg’s Success in Comics seminar is heading to the east coast. The last two events were in Las Vegas. The duo is taking the show to Annapolis, MD February 16-17th. The line up looks top notch too. Chad Carpenter – Third time speaker, creator of Tundra the most widely self-syndicated strips [...]
Posted on: Nov 14, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Speaking Engagements, web comics, Comments: 15 Comments
Jules Feiffer is selling his NY apartment
New York Magazine: The acclaimed cartoonist, author, playwright, and illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth says he’s staying in Southampton for good. Of the city, he says, “You begin each day coping. There’s a kind of built-in abrasiveness living in the city. You wake up and you start dealing with the events of the day. If [...]
Posted on: Nov 8, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Children's Books, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 4 Comments
Video: Joe Wos’ attempt at the largest hand drawn maze
Last September I posted news that Toonseum founder Joe Wos was attempting to establish a Guinness World Record for the largest hand-drawn maze. The maze is still being created even though he started it back in July. Dave Crawley, reporting for the local TV station KDKA, interviews Joe and we get to see in the [...]
Posted on: Nov 8, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 4 Comments
A few new websites you should check out
Things come in three, right? The Baby Blues guys Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have launched a blog. It has a good mix of content for fans as well as those interested in the inner-workings of a cartoonist. Betty Boop now has a website. She is, as the website says, “Queen of Cartoons, the First [...]
Posted on: Oct 23, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Newsweek to cease print publication; going 100% digital in 2013
Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast – which owns Newsweek, has announced that December 31 will be the last print edition of Newsweek. Starting in early 2013, it will be called Newsweek Global will only be available via digital devices and the web. We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek [...]
Posted on: Oct 18, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, Magazines, Comments: 7 Comments
Profiled: Scott McCloud’s comic theories in business
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 [...]
Posted on: Oct 17, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom Spurgeon donates personal collection of small press comics to OSU library
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 [...]
Posted on: Oct 16, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
David Paccia creates cartoon contest to honor his mother
David Paccia, who runs the excellent blog David Wasting Paper, has created a cartooning contest for junior artists. The contest was created to honor his mother who passed away in May. The contest is open to artists between the ages of 13 and 16 who have an interest in cartooning and/or animation. The contest runs [...]
Posted on: Oct 11, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
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