King Feature’s The Archivist has a interesting post on the internationalization of Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: Ever since the 1950’s, BEETLE BAILEY has been embraced by many nations outside the United States, because like most good strips, the series exhibits universal human foibles that all can identify with. In this case, the world of army […]
A couple of years ago I reported that StoryCorp had begun creating animating some of their stories. They’ve continued to animate more, but now they want to create a long-form animated special and are asking for donations though Kickstarter to make that happen. About two years ago, StoryCorps, the national oral history project, began animating […]
Daryl Cagle is out and about, this time lecturing in Mumbai India: “Cartoons are a great barometer of freedom. If a cartoonist can draw the president, then that’s a free press” said noted American Political cartoonist Daryl Cagle. Daryl, currently the editorial cartoonist at NBC News, was in the city on Friday as part of […]
Mentioned in the news that Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle comic strip had hit the 5 year milestone mark was news that an ebook collection of her strip would soon be available. And now it is. You can download yours from Lulu.com or Apple’s iBookstore. As Alex jokes in her email to me – the cost […]
CBS News profiled Matt Wuerker about his cartoons for Politico – the beltway newspaper. Wuerker said he has heard from the people he satirizes. He recalled a cartoon attacking Donald Rumsfeld during the Iraq War: “I got an email from a colonel in the Pentagon who said that [Secretary Rumsfeld] had seen the cartoon and […]
The Dallas Morning News has an article by Mike Peters (but not MG&G Mike Peters) about how several cartoonists’ caricatures of President Obama has evolved over the course of his first term: “It’s subconscious, but the way a cartoonist draws a politician does change over time as the cartoonist’s impression of that politician changes,” said […]