Interesting piece in next month’s The Atlantic on efforts by Google to save high-quality journalism. Publishers would be overjoyed to stop buying newsprint-if the new readers they are gaining for their online editions were worth as much to advertisers as the previous ones they are losing in print. Here is a crucial part of the […]
Iron Man 2 took in a weekend total of $133.6 million to become the fifth most top grossing film sequel. The other top sequels include The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, Twilight Saga: New Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Interestingly, it was $5 million less than the the studio’s estimates. An open […]
The 17 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists who condemned the alleged threats against South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker after their 200th episode aired depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit can add one more cartoonist to their ranks: Pat Oliphant. The full statement: “We, the undersigned, condemn the recent threats against […]
More details have been posted regarding The Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” contest. The Post is asking for comic strip aspirants to sumbit six original unpublished strips by June 4th. Ten finalists will be selectedd by a panel of professional cartoonists that include Garry Trudeau, Stephan Pastis, Jerry Scott, Hilary Price, Richard Thompson, Tom […]
The New York Times is reporting that Frank Frazetta has passed away at the age of 82. Frank was best known for his “fantastic worlds of musclebound heroes fighting with broad swords and battle axes to defend helpless women from horrible beasts.” He also worked as an assistant to Al Capp doing Lil’ Abner and […]
Senator Al Franken, a former comedian and comedy writer (painfully) uses a cartoon by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Tole to argue support for his bill.