Brad Mackay has posted what he believes is an early art contest submission by Art Spiegelman when Art was approximately 15 years old. This is a pretty great find. Recently Montreal cartoonist Rick Trembles was combing through a stack of old CARtoons magazines he nabbed from a flea market and spotted a winning submission to […]
Marvel comics artist (and Eisner Award nominated series ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’) Skottie Young is testing the waters of digital publishing. Like most internet strategies – the idea is to cut out the middleman (Apple, Amazon, etc.) and sell directly to the public. After a week of selling a digital version of his book […]
The new comic Reply All by Donna A. Lewis’ debuts in February through Washington Post Writers Group. Jewish Times profiles Donna. Enter Lizzie, the “star” of “Reply All,” a new comic strip scheduled to debut on Monday, Feb. 28, through the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate. Penned by Baltimore-born cartoonist Donna A. Lewis, “Reply All” […]
This came news to me as I was under the impression that Japan loved their anime and manga regardless of moral biases. From The Comics Journal: Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s successful passage last month of legislation targeting manga, anime and video games for vaguely defined “morally offensive” imagery has been recorded in this column, as […]
Other Red Carpet is reporting that Will Smith wants to remake the musical “Annie” and feature his 10-year-old daughter in the title role.
Rob Tornoe reports that editorial cartoonist John Trever is retiring from the Albuquerque Journal after 34 years. You’ve been drawing political cartoons for the Albuquerque Journal since 1976, over 30 years. What made now the time to pull back? I guess I should feel guilty, giving up an editorial cartoonist’s position in this environment, but […]
Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard was reprimanded in court for exclaiming, “He’s just a cowardly liar, a terrorist!” Westergaard was attending the trial of Mohammed Geele who was arrested for trying to break into Westergaard’s residence with an axe New Years Day. Geele told the court that he was merely trying to frighten the artist. Mr […]
If you remember, back in October I reported that an Idaho middle-school teacher Steven Kutzner had plead guilty to possessing cartoon child porn – including images of characters from “The Simpsons.” Sentencing has been set and Kutzner will spend 15 months in prison, supervised release for three months and participate in sex offender treatment. Idaho […]