The Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are the animation industries highest honor and was held last Saturday. This year the Best Animated Feature went to Rango. Here are the official results: Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) – Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, […]
Some in conservatives circles are using an historical propaganda cartoon used in a Iowa classroom as rhetoric to end “the government monopoly on education” because it supports the teaching of communism. The cartoon contrasts capitalism and communism (above) and depicts individuals in capitalism as shackled and their money going to rich, fat bosses while those […]
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon to Lian Amaris. A quick tweet to Lian and a response back confirmed that that the cartoon was used without her knowledge and compensation. Mike writes: If someone puts one of my cartoons on their […]
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing. His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House […]
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk […]