Some months ago I came across the Pogo Connect iPad stylus online. The device boasts that it is a unique pressure sensitive pen for the iPad. Since pressure sensitivity is one of the missing features of drawing on a tablet, I was curious if the pen lived up to its claims. At $79.95, it’s not […]
Mark Anderson has posted several images of a 1971 card game featuring the Lone Ranger. The game was produced by Mattel who commissioned Jack Kirby to do the art.
Neil Gaiman has penned the prequel to his acclaimed comic Sandman. The new series comes out in October and is drawn by JH Williams III. From The Guardian: The storyline describes what happened to Dream before the events of the first ever comic, in which he was imprisoned by an Aleister Crowley-ish Satanist, Roderick Burgess, […]
Ed Koren has been doing cartoons for the New Yorker for over 50 years. Below is a video by Stuck in Vermont. Via: Mike Lynch
Michael Jantze is back at the drawing board and ready to knock out a special edition book of his comic strip The Norm. Here’s part of his pitch on Indiegogo: “Knocked Out Loaded” is a story I pitched and sold to DC Comics in 1990 – along with another graphic novel titled “Rave On” – […]
Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Sabaaneh was released from Israeli prison earlier this week. He was arrested in February on his way back from a conference in Jordan. Mohammed is the editorial cartoonist at the al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper and is also works at the Arab American University in the public relations department. He was initially held without […]
Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary was one of the fine speakers at this year’s AAEC convention. In my introduction to Howard’s presentation I explained that this blog, when launched in 2005, was meant to be a personal exploration of where cartooning (primarily comic strips and editorial cartooning) was going with the growth […]
This year’s annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists wrapped up on Saturday night (or early Sunday morning for some of us) in Salt Lake City. Full disclosure: I am not an unbiased source when it comes to this convention. I live near Salt Lake and am friends with the convention host Pat […]
A great talk by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about constructing humor in the New Yorker and in cartooning in general.