Posted on: December 6, 2011

They took over Halloween. Why not Christmas too? Via Robot6

Steve Meyers of Poynter is now reporting that Jeff Staher has been suspended “indefinitely” until the paper can conduct an exhaustive investigation. On a related note, Michael Cavna has talked to Robert Mankoff who is giving Jeff the benefit of the doubt. “My guess is Stahler came up with the idea completely independently,” Mankoff told […]

Indie Wire reports that a second TinTin movie is already in the works before the first has yet to open here in the U.S. It seems like the domestic success or failure of ‘Tintin,’ which doesn’t open on our shores until December 21st, isn’t even a factor at this point – they’re moving forward whether […]

Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ” Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute […]

Eisner winner Shannon Wheeler recently took a trip to Portugal for a comic festival. He took a sketch book to record his trip that would start in New York City. His trip is being chronicled over on The Comics Journal. Day two is about his trip to the New Yorker office.

The Washintonian profiles Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten who is also co-writer of the comic strip Barney & Clyde. Weingarten may also be the best writer in American journalism. He?s the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing twice, once for the violinist story and once for a story about […]

Yesterday’s editorial cartoon by Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Jeff Stahler has a striking similarity to a 2009 New Yorker cartoon by David Sipress (see both below). I asked Jeff for a response to which he’d only say, “my only explaination [sic] is that it’s a coincidence.” This is the second coincidence this year. Last March, one […]