Actor and director Warren Beatty has announced he’s working on a sequel for the Dick Tracy movie as well as a remastered Blu-Ray of the original Dick Tracy movie he directed and starred in back in the 1980’s. Recently, Beatty won a legal battle with Tribune Media over the movie rights for the Dick Tracy […]
Business insider reports that The New York Times pay-wall strategy is not only generating online revenue, but that they’re seeing an uptick in print subscriptions as well as the choice of ‘free’ is no longer an option. Even people who love their newsprint had to give serious thought to why they were blowing $600 for […]
Looks like a new site is up that takes peoples Tweets and tries to match them with random Peanut strip. As far as a parody/mashup experiment – I think it works. Here’s some examples. Follow PeanutTwitter
Warner Bros. will produce three new 3D short animations of their Looney Tunes properties. More interestingly is that they’ll use the original voice recordings of Mel Blanc (the original voice behind Bugs Bunny) from the 1950s. The three shorts will include a Daffy Duck segment, a Sylvester the Cat and Tweety and anothe Road Runner […]
I haven’t been a regular visitor to Editor & Publisher since they laid off Dave Astor, so I’m not sure when the relaunch of their site went live. I remember when E&P was bought out they wanted to do a redesign and drop the pay wall.
I came across this letter to the editor and had a “Oh crap! Did Jim forgot to check his calendar again?” The date referenced below is the day before D-Day. The comic strip “Garfield” has long impressed me with its consistent message of aggrandizing anti-social behavior. The strip is a detriment to young readers and […]
Back in February I linked to a New York Times video report of their sneak peak inside Pixar’s campus. Now we have a look inside Dreamworks Animation Studio via Cali Lewis of GeekBeat.TV. The video is a little less about the campus and work environment and more on how 3D animation is created. Hat tip: […]
David Paccia has posted a video on how wooden pencils are manufactured over on his David Wasting Paper blog. Almost from the beginning I’ve used mechanical pencils because they keep a sharper line (or consistently tighter line), but when you read through David’s blog, there is still a great many artists that use the good […]
NPR picked up on a webcomic, Pants are overrated, that did a two-part-series called Bacon and Hobbes wherein the artists depict Calvin aged 26 years, married to Susie with a daughter of their own named Bacon. Parody attempts on Watterson’s classic strip isn’t new. I’m not sure what this adds to the Calvin and Hobbes […]
Sad news from Mike Lynch: Veteran cartoonist, animator and creator of the popular DRAW 50 how-to-draw cartoon book series Lee Ames died in a Huntington, NY nursing home last week. He was 90 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure.
Atlanta Magazine delves into the rebirth of Dick Tracy under the new team Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis. For starters, the art is crisp and creative with a strong visual homage to “Tracy” creator Chester Gould’s heyday in the strip in the 1940s and 1950s while the writing is fast-paced and loaded with wit […]
From the NY Daily News: LOS ANGELES – A politically motivated comic book pitting a blond superhero called “Foreskin Man” against a sinister-looking “Monster Mohel” is causing a serious flap in California. The colorful series was created by the “intactivist” group MGMBill.org as part of its campaign to ban circumcision through ballot initiatives.
More attendees of the Reuben Award weekend have posted: Sunday’s Non Sequitur has Wiley Miller’s take on the Reubens. Anne Hambrock has posted cell phone video footage of one of Tom Gammill’s short videos presented to the attendees. Tom was the master of ceremonies. Can’t wait to see the final release from Tom. Stephan Pastis […]
Richard Thompson continues to get positive press after winning this year’s Rueben. He was down in Charlotte this weekend for the Heroes Con and the Charlotte Observer wrote up a profile. A lifelong suburbanite, he’s happy with the lifestyle. From soccer league ordeals to the rituals of school, his experiences provide storylines for the strips. […]
From The West Australian we learn that Jason Chatfield is still recovering from being dragged by a taxi earlier this year. While the local funnyman is still in rehab for injuries sustained to his writing arm, Chatfield is back at work. He soldiered on to perform 42 shows in 25 days during last month’s Melbourne […]