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During a comic festival in Brussels, a scaled up reproduction of a Tintin adventure was created on the Brussels Grand Place. It measures 672 square meters (7,233 square feet). The article doesn’t mention if the feat was to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World records. The current record holder is a team in […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith is the subject of a documentary entitled “The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Changing Face of Comics.” Unfortunately the movie is only showing at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio next Friday the 22nd. Here is the trailer. Hopefully it will be made available for purchase on […]
Jonathan Shapiro (AKA “Zapiro”), the South African cartoonist who has drawn the ire, as well as law suits, from the new president Jacob Zuma, has decided to remove the shower head from atop Zuma’s cranium as a demonstration of optimism. I thought I will take stock of where we are and give the presidency a […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy, the creator of Between Friends, has created a three day story-line to promote breast cancer screenings for the Canadian Cancer Society to coincide with Mother’s Day. The strips were also given voice and animation for the Thingamaboob.ca web site. When I was approached to help out with this campaign, I was excited for […]
INDenverTimes.com, the new online venture by former Rocky Mountain News staffers, has added a comic section to their website “in response to overwhelming reader requests.” The news site added 39 comics using what appears to be Creator’s Rev Up comic service.