As announced last week, Brian McFadden was tapped to be the featured regular cartoonist for the rework of the New York Times’ Week in Review. His first comic was entitled “The State of Unemployment” and appeared yesterday. Michael Cavna interviewed Brian about the new arrangement: “I’ve been given a lot of leeway,” says McFadden, whose […]
Last week I wondered aloud if Cars 2 would be the first Pixar dud. I was wrong. The film took the top spot on its debut weekend and based on the numbers I found on the-numbers.com, the estimated $68 million Cars 2 earned this last weekend makes it the fifth highest grossing Pixar film on […]
Big Fat Whale creator Brian McFadden will be the commissioned cartoonist in the New York Times’ Week in Review section starting Sunday. According to Matt Bors Brian will the featured cartoonist for “a few months” and before the space is rotated to other cartoonists. “The strip will cover something topical, but it can be anything […]
Long time NCS and AAEC member Jim Orton has passed away at the age of 81. Jim, for a time, did editorial cartoons for Roll Call. According to the obituary, Jim had a varied career. He was born June 11, 1930, in Oneida, NY, and was high school valedictorian in 1947. He later received his […]
I’ve mentioned before my love of Pixar movies and angst over Cars 2 (based on the trailers). From early reviews, I’m not the only one. Russ Fischer writes over on Slashfilm.com: ‘Cars 2’ Will Be Pixar’s First ‘Rotten’ Movie I certainly take no joy in noting this, and curiously enough I don’t think I’ve seen […]
TIME magazine has listed their top 25 animated films of all time. Here’s the link to the start (#25). You have to go through 25 pages to get to the number one. I’m going to spare you a bit of time by giving you 25-6. The last five you’ll have to visit their site. 25. […]
Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith took first place in the Best of the West journalism contest. The Best of the West is an award honoring professional journalists in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Second place went to Mike Keefe of the Denver […]
The Saturday Evening Post’s Diana Denny profiles Randy Glasbergen There’s always someone around the corner ready to make a liar out of you. I’ve recently told you how hard it is to be a cartoonist. Except for Randy Glasbergen, who sold his first cartoons to the The Saturday Evening Post while still in high school. […]
There’s a big announcement from Harry Potter author JK Rowling today and quite honestly the scope of everything she’s doing is pretty big. On the surface, she’s building an online community called Pottermore that will feature an online store and other interactive features that have been described as “illustrated environments” and not games. One of […]
When word came yesterday that Gannett was laying off upwards of 700 employees across their chain, it had potential to impact a staff cartoonist. As far as I can tell, Doug MacGregor of the Ft. Myers News-Press was the only cartoonist casualty this round. Doug has been with the News-Press since 1988 and has been […]
Today’s last edition of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man reveals the death of Spider-Man at the hands of the Green Goblin. To be clear, this is a spin off comic much like the story-line of The Amazing Spider-Man in newspapers is different than those in the comic shop. From NPR: But this new, younger Ultimate Spider-Man wasn’t […]
DreamWorks Animation has released the theatrical trailer for the Shrek spin off Puss In Boots. The movie is directed by Chris Miller (Shrek the Third). Voicing the movie includes Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris. The movie opens November 4th in 2D and 3D.
The Doozies creator Tom Gammill produces another great Learn to Draw. In this episode, Tom visits Arnold Roth and his wife Caroline in New York City. This was originally debuted at the NCS Reuben Award weekend. If you’re not familiar with Tom’s Learn to Draw series, get a cup of your favorite beverage and sit […]
Ron Howard is rumored to be direct a live-action movie adaptation of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. According to Deadline.com reports that the “film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.” No date has given. Other names attached to the project include David […]
John Glynn over at Universal Uclick posted news that this week Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap is drawing the Adam@Home comic and Corey Pandolph The Elderberries/Toby Robot Satan/Barkeater Lake is doing this Sunday’s strip after Rob Harrell broke his foot at during the Reuben Awards weekend and the recovery involved heavy pain killers rendering him […]