New York Magazine: how did WSJ track down Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s review of the Schulz and Peanuts biography that appeared in the Wall Street Journal had New York Magazine wondering how the newspaper tracked down the reclusively retired cartoonist. Long story short - they went through the syndicate. The magazine references an article over at the Cleveland Scene who, in [...]
Posted on: Oct 16, 2007, Section: Off topic, Comments: 4 Comments
Dagwood Sandwich shoppe reviewed in the Palm Beach Post
Dean Young, son of Blondie creator Chic Young opened up a chain of sandwich shops last year called Dagwood Sandwich Shoppe.
The Palm Beach Post food critic, Charles Passy, has written up a review of his recent experience eating there.
But the real appeal of Dagwood’s may be its signature Dagwood sandwich. It costs $9.69 - [...]
Posted on: Jun 8, 2007, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Garfield hugger gets 90-day suspended sentence
Some belated news out of Indiana regarding the man who beheaded a Garfield statue with a “crazed hug (see back stories here, here and here.)” Joseph Savarino, age 23, was sentenced 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service and pay $200 in restitution for his role in the decapitation [...]
Posted on: Apr 2, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Off topic, Comments: 3 Comments
Scott Adams supports Bill Gates for president
Last month, Scott Adams blogged/opined that he thought that Bill Gate should run for president. Such a casual mention of the topic seemed not worth a comment, but apparently the topic has been picked up in other regions of the blogosphere.
Here is the pertinent post regarding his support for a Gates candidacy.
I think that [...]
Posted on: Dec 4, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Norman Rockwell painting fetches $15.4 million
Last spring, I posted a story about Henry cartoonist Don Trachte Jr. who painted a forged Norman Rockwell painting and then hid the original in a false wall of his home during his divorce in 1970. The original painting was just discovered and according to E&P it was auctioned off at Sotheby’s for a [...]
Posted on: Dec 4, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Randy Glass’ stipple art profiled on Drawn!
Jon Heder by Randy Glass. Used by permission.
This is slightly off topic, but easily justifiable as it is artwork that appears in the newspaper. Randy Glass, one of the illustrators at the Wall Street Journal, does that amazing stipple art portraits was mentioned yesterday on the Drawn! blog. I’ve been so impressed with stipple art [...]
Posted on: Apr 21, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Simpsons movie to debut in 2007
Slightly Off-topic. It’s been rumored for quite sometime, then production started, now a release date of July 27, 2007 has been set for the full length animation movie of The Simpsons.
A 25 second trailer has been showing in theaters before Ice Age 2.
I’ll link to the trailer should it appear online.
UPDATE: Looks like it’s more [...]
Posted on: Apr 3, 2006, Section: Movies, Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Rube Goldberg compitition is this weekend
The 19th annual Rube Goldberg competition is set for this weekend.
The competition pays homage to late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing extremely complex machines that performed very simple tasks. This year’s challenge is to build a mechanism that will individually cut or shred five sheets of 20-pound, 8-by-11-inch paper.
About eight university teams [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Marvel and DC want to own “super-hero” word
Slightly off topic - but Marvel and DC comics are demanding that they joint-own the word “super-hero.”
Marvel Comics is continuing in its bid to steal the word “super-hero” from the public domain and put it in a lock-box to which it will control the key. Marvel and DC comics jointly filed a trademark on the [...]
Posted on: Mar 21, 2006, Section: Cartoons, Controversies, Off topic, Comments: 2 Comments
The art of pantomine in animation, comics
Slightly off-topic, but of interest. An article on this weekends NY Times about how chatty modern animation has become and how they’ve lost the art of pantomine. It’s an interesting read by itself, but with the announcement of a new feature called “Lio“by Mark Tatulli - which is being sold as a pantomine feature, [...]
Posted on: Mar 20, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Off topic, Comments: 15 Comments
Chinese college to launch degree course on cartooning
Slightly off topic, but interesting that a Chinese college is opening a three-year course for artist to learn cartooning. Full story below.
BEIJING, March 10(Xinhuanet)– A Beijing-based college is to open a three-year course for budding artists interested in cartoon drawing, the first undergraduate course of its kind in China.
Applicants are not required to have an [...]
Posted on: Mar 10, 2006, Section: Cartoons, Off topic, Comments: 1 Comment
Iranians rename Danish pastries
Off topic, but interesting. When the Americans were angered by France’s unwillingness to support the Iraq war, we renamed our beloved french fries to “Freedom Fries.” Now, in what I can only hope as a small step forward in non-volient free speech - many Iranians are renaming their Danish Pastries to “Roses of the [...]
Posted on: Feb 17, 2006, Section: Controversies, Editorial cartooning, Off topic, Comments: 1 Comment
Study: Women fall for the wittiest guy
Way off topic story here, but scientists are theorizing that women are attracted to funny men and that men (once they get past the “many other qualities admired by superficial man”) are attracted to women who laugh at their jokes.
Posted on: Feb 3, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Create your own Garfield strip
From a feature section in the Metro West Daily News comes this little tidbit.
You know the drill, readers: Every so often, we compile enough strange, curious, and simply head-scratching Web sites to make an entire column out of them. And wouldn’t you know it? This is one of those weeks.
Special thanks to the inimitable memepool.com, [...]
Posted on: Jan 25, 2006, Section: Cartoons, Off topic, Comments: 1 Comment
New site to promote comics on iPods
Off topic, but interesting. A network has been created to get comics on iPods.
Clickwheel is a whole new way of using your iPod, and a whole new way of reading comics. Looking for a simple innocent laugh? A dry, sophisticated chuckle? A true story of crime, disaster or ordinary life? A brain-bending exercise in comic [...]
Posted on: Jan 23, 2006, Section: Cartoons, Off topic, Technology, Comments: 0 Comments
