Steve Niles on the current comic climate and how to make it better. It’s not going to be easy. We have to figure out new ways to get material out to the public, learn new ways to reach and sell directly to fans. We’re going to have to be creative, supportive and very DIY sometimes, […]
From Mike Rhode writing for Washington City Paper: As Steve Conley notes, he’s done it all. He started with a science fiction Web comic (before they were called that), moved it into a comic book, switched to doing an online political comic strip, drew a few licensed comic books including an excellent Star Trek series, […]
Two Ugandan jouranlists were arrested and later released pending unspecified charges for running a cartoon of President Yoweri Museveni on the cover of their magazine. The cartoon depicted the president with a large knife about to cut a cake shaped like Uganda. The accompanying headline, “Uganda at 48. Museveni at 24. Where next?” The journalists […]
Brian Truitt over at USA Today looks at tomorrow’s issue of the Fantastic Four (which I believe is released today due to the media/fan interest). The issue concludes a story-line that ends with the death of one of the Fantastic Four. Tom Brevoort, the book’s editor and Marvel Comics’ senior vice president of publishing, is […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s nominees for the Academy Awards. Here are the cartoon/animation related category nominees: Best Animated Short Film Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang Let’s Pollute A […]
Back when the NBC-Leno-Conan debacle was unfolding a grass roots effort fanned out through the web behind a “I’m with Coco” avatar. From Huffington Post comes news that Corey Pandolph cartoonist for The Elderberries, Toby, Robot Satan and Barkeater Lake has created an iconic image of Keith Olbermann. From the Huffington Post Maybe Keith Olbermann […]
Banksy made headlines back in October when he created an extended Simpsons opening with a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. He’s posted the story boards he created for opening on his website. Here’s the opening: Via: The Animation Blog
From the New York Post: Rovio, the Finnish company which created the mobile app, will produce an animated “Angry Birds” series for TV or the Web. “We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now — to work on broadcast content […]