PBS’ Independent Lens produced a hour tribute to the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad and his half-century career at the L.A. Times. The full episode is now online over at YouTube.
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is opening a new exhibit showcasing “some of the best and boldest work published on the World Wide Web.” The exhibit is entitled Monsters of Webcomics and features cartoons from Jesse Reklaw (“Slow Wave), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant!), Phil and Kaja Foglio (Girl Genius), Dorothy Gambrell (Cat […]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that within the next 12 months, it will begin to require a fee for online access of it’s websites. The strategy to extract fees from online readers, which is still lacking in many details, has more than a little bit of a “damn the torpedoes” mentality to it, but […]
Animation » A new Ponyo trailer has been posted. » The Animation blog has posted concept art from the upcoming Disney feature film “Rapunzel” due out Christmas of 2010. Comic Strips » Readers were quick to note that yesterday’s B.C. had two left feet. Editorial Cartooning » Pat Oliphant was awarded the Inkpot Award for […]
The comic strip Annie turned 85 yesterday. Little Orphan Annie first appeared in 1924, a creation of Herold Gray. The comic “Little Orphan Annie” debuted on Aug. 5, 1924. Original creator Harold Gray intended to call his character “Little Orphan Otto,” but switched the character’s gender at the suggestion of his editor, the Chicago Tribune’s […]
For those of you into animation, The History Channel and Aniboom are sponsoring a competition for you to animate 30 seconds of a famous historical speech and send it in. The speeches are provided, voiced by Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman and others. The five first cut finalists receive $5,000 to finish […]
A recent ad campaign by Jamba Juice to promote their lunch specials appears highly similar to David Rees’ “Get Your War On” webcomic style which has David concerned that it might appear that he’s involved with the campaign, even though “Get Your War On” was retired in January. Rees, who started making clip-art comics while […]
Univeral Uclick and Mark Tatulli have announced the first ever look-alike contest. Contestants are encouraged to do their best to mimic Lioâ??s trademark hair spike and capture the mischievous spirit of the weirdest little kid on the comics page and send the photos in before September 28th. Judges at Universal will narrow the selection with […]
Editorial Cartooning » Another animated editorial cartoon by Ted Rall and David Essman. » Daryl Cagle is posting video from his panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. This video features the cartoons of Glenn McCoy. Keep checking is blog for more videos throughout the week. Graphic Novels » Steve Duin of The Oregonian reviews “You’ll […]
From Daryl Cagle we learn that the The Jerusalem Post has dropped Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen. Yaakov has drawn the strip for the Post for the last 35 years.
According to Michael Cavna over on his Comics Riff blog, more than 100 Iranian cartoonist will boycott the upcoming Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial scheduled for October. According to Nik Kowsar, an exiled Iranian political cartoonist now living near Toronto, many of his colleagues have decided to boycott the Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, scheduled […]
Congratulations to Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds who are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the launch of their strip, Tank McNamara.
Drew Litton, former Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist, has started a new blog called “Creator’s Incubator” – a blog dedicated to the creative process, tips and techniques. The blog’s audience is geared to cartoonists, writers and songwriters. He’s inviting any professional cartoonist to email him a list of five things that help them create which […]
Comic Strips » The Aaugh Blog has an interesting post on who draws (and doesn’t draw) the Peanuts characters that appear in merchandising. » Who does this @#$@ think he is? Sure we all have lists of comics we don’t like, but comics favorites are so subjective, it’s hard for anyone to really argue who’s […]
About a month ago, I reported that Ruben Bolling was auctioning off space in his Tom The Dancing Bug for a product placement. The proceeds are to be donated to “The Committee To Protect Journalist.” He reports that the final bid was $277, but did not disclose the winner. The product will run in an […]