Tank McNamara © Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds. Used by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All Rights Reserved. Universal Press has announced that “Tank McNamara” will be developed into a television show. “TANK MCNAMARA,” the venerable sports comic strip, has been optioned by Bender-Brown Productions for development into a television project. Chronicling the adventures of […]
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will run an exhibit of Israeli politicial cartoons starting February 1 and running through April 9. Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka will be speaking at the museum on Feb. 15. Should be interesting.
James Sturm, founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies was interviewed by the Village Voice regarding the goals and successes of the school. Generations of cartoonists are self-taught. Why found the Center? I wanted to teach and create a cartooning program that was more reflective of comics as an art form and not just a […]
Anold Wagner has posted Bud Blake’s eulogy on his web site. The eulogy was delivered by Bud’s son. Bud died last month at the age of 87. Bud launched several strip ideas. I remember ?Inklings? which was all silhouettes. ?Tiger? came as a result of imaging how celebrities would have behaved as kids. Hugo was […]
SpongeBob SquarePants and Kellogg (think cereal) are being sued by the “Center for Sciences in the Public Interest” who believe that the advertising campaign using SpongeBob is deceiving little children who may not understand they’re viewing a commercial and tricked into eating “unhealthy food.” The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Boston-based group […]
Ed Stein, editorial cartoonist for Rocky Mountain News, was interviewed yesterday about his work as an editorial cartoonist and regarding his comic strip “Denver Square” that runs exclusively in the RMN. Mark(Q): How do you view your Denver Square cartoon strip differently from your editorial cartoons? Ed(A): I see Denver Square as a completely different […]
The Perry Ellis sports wear company is trying something new in their advertising campaigns – a comic strip. But now Perry Ellis has decided to replace its leading man (most recently, the actor Jerry O’Connell; before him, the actor Paul Rudd) with something less predictable: a comic strip. The new ad campaign features a male […]