This Sunday, Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk, chief reporter for TheTreetops-Tattler, will be arrested for refusing to reveal the source of his shocking story about the true identity of Bo, the White House dog. The story-line plays off a story that ran on the comic’s companion website, The Treetops-Tattler. From their press release: In the SHOE comic, […]
BOOM! Town, a new imprint of BOOM! Studios, announced they will be printing a collection of rejected cartoons submitted to The New Yorker by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler entitled I Thought You Would Be Funnier. Regarding the volume Shannon says, “This is some of the best work I’ve ever done.”
Bob Andelman interviewed Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson yesterday in his latest Mr. Media podcast.
The LA Times interviews Joe Sacco on his latest book “Footnotes in Gaza” Joe is credited as inventing the genre of cartoonist-correspondent. In this book he investigates the massacre of 275 Palestinians in 1956 by Israel during the Suez Crisis. All the ingredients were present for a violent denouement. It came, according to a United […]
CNET is reporting that Apple has signed textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson to port their textbooks to upcoming iPad. Announced on Wednesday, the agreements were made with ScrollMotion, a company that develops the iPhone e-reader app Iceberg Reader and works with publishers to digitize their books for the mobile […]