Again, I’ve got a family priority this weekend taking me to Portland, OR and will miss the NCS Reuben Award weekend activities – including the big awards night. If you plan on attending and can text/email me results that evening as the awards are announced, I’d like to be able to update the blog as […]
Mark your calendars and register early. Space is limited to 275 participants. Registration for the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art organized by The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will open on June 1, 2010. The Festival, which is a celebration of cartoons and comics, will take place October 14-17. Online registration, […]
Official Press Release: Dynamite Entertainment, under license from King Features Syndicate, returns Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, and The Phantom to comic books, and all under the Dynamite publishing umbrella. The Last Phantom was previously announced to ship this August with Alex Ross at the creative helm, Scott Beatty scripting and Eduardo Ferigato on art […]
Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey is celebrating 60 years with series of events and special strips. From the press release: The world’s most recognizable Private and funny pages icon Beetle Bailey salutes 60 years of military mirth and mayhem with a seven-month long celebration honoring the comic strip’s diamond anniversary. Beginning this month, a series of […]
Joe Murray, creator of Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life and Cartoon Network’s Lazlo’s Camp has raised over $18,000 from direct funding through Kickstarter to start a new animated series called Frog in a Suit for a new website/portal he’s creating called KaboingTV.com. The site is envisioned to be for independant animation projects. Describing his project and […]
Ted Rall, Matt Bors and Steve Cloud are leaving for Afghanistan the second week of August for one month. Rall writes: I’m leaving for Afghanistan the second week of August. I have three goals: Go to Taloqan in Takhar Province, to revisit the place where I spent much of the fall of 2001 during the […]
A 55 year-old doctor named Raymond Adamcik was arrested for allegedly groping a woman while dressed up in a Captain America costume. The story gets richer than that if you can believe it: Adamcik approached a woman while holding a burrito and began to talk dirty. He then reached his hand between her legs and […]
There’s a report from Pajiba.com that claims that a live-action Dilbert movie is in the works. In 2007, Moviehole reported that Chris Columbus (Stepmom, Mrs. Doubtfire, the two weakest Harry Potter films) had snatched up the about-to-lapse film rights to Scott Adams’ Dilbert, possibly with an eye toward directing. That was the last that the […]