Bob Harvey has a great interview with Jim Davis regarding his career doing Garfield. Bob provides a lot of insight into the PAWS Inc. organization and Jim’s role in his empire. Garfield appeared in papers 33 years ago last week. As the Garfield empire grew, more and more of Davis’ time was devoted to the […]
Creating Frank Cho’s World has won a Emmy Award (National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter) in the Arts/Entertainment – News Story Category. The documentary covered the creation of the Washington Post Magazine cover. The documentary was Alexandra Garcia and Benedict de la Cruz from the Washington Post. You can see video of the process on the […]
The debate comes up every now and then about the utility of editorial cartoonists continued use caricatures of elephants and donkeys to represent the two major political parties. But I will continue to draw elephants and donkeys. I’m proud of them. They are symbols that were developed by editorial cartoonists, and then co-opted by the […]
Newspaper tend to run polls when replacing comics. The more vocal newspaper editor critics opine that editors should grow a spine and pick the comics themselves. It appears that the editors at The Herald did just that. They picked up Cul de Sac to replacd 9 Chickweed Lane. While I have no strong feelings for […]
From Beehivecity.com Green Lantern is not the only superhero offering to suggest that interest in men-in-tights in waning. Kenneth Branagh’s Thor opened with $66 million last month, a satisfying result for Paramount and Marvel comics but no match for the $115 million pocketed by the 2002 Spider-Man reboot in its first days. Matthew Vaughn, director […]