Animated news reports that last weekend Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time. It has taken in $601 million to Titanic’s $600 million in domestic receipts. Titanic is still #1 when adjusted for inflation, but Avatar’s forecasted take-in is between $650 million to $700 million. When including Worldwide sales, the […]
Delta College president Jean Goodnow has apologized to the for the hurt and disappointment caused by a cartoon that ran in the campus newspaper which painted the city of Saginaw MI as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon has prompted outrage from several community leaders and prompted a community forum that included the […]
I reported earlier that Up was nominated for Best Picture – something rarely done for an animated film. I briefly mentioned it was also nominated in the Animated Feature Film category. What I did not mentioned was the other contenders which include: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of […]
Chris Lamb author of “Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States” will be the guest speaker to open a new editorial cartooning exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC. The exhibit explores “the significance and impact of political caricature by comparing images […]
Tom Racine interviews Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues in his latest podcast. Topics include “working with his old friend and colleague Jerry Scott, and their interesting and frustrating journey into television animation!”