Maine Governor Paul LePage wrote a handwritten note to Nick Danby, son of Bangor Daily News’s editorial cartoonist George Danby, to apologize for earlier remarks saying he wanted to shoot the editorial cartoonist. The Governor was widely criticized and condemned for the remark. According to The Maine Sun Journal, Nick not only accepted the apology, […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, and it’s time to recap the experiences of myself and the great Lucas Turnbloom! Lucas had his upcoming (Summer 2016) graphic novel “Dream […]
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One of the questions I’ve been trying to get answered today is when and where was Berkeley Breathed going to be publishing Bloom County? The New York Times tracked down Berkeley and found out. From the New York Times: Mr. Breathed provided a fuller explanation of his decision to revive ?Bloom County? in response to […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has been awarded this year’s Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication for his The Complete Cul de Sac collection. Chris Sparks accepted the award on his behalf. He posted on Facebook afterward, “Cul de Sac, the last great comic strip won the greatest cartooning award, The Eisner. The world […]
Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed posted a photo on his Facebook account teasing a return to his iconic comic strip. Berkeley’s pos simply said, “A return after 25 years. Feels like going home.” (see screenshot below). He later posted the finished cartoon for the strip on the screen: There’s no confirmed information about whether Bloom […]
The Kickstarter campaign to create a two-volume compilation of This Modern World to mark the 25th anniversary of Tom Tomorrow’s work raised $87,000 in less than 24 hours and with 26 more days left in the campaign has raised over $132,000 as of this writing. Raising money at that pace, Dan Perkins (the real name […]
Speaking of The Simpsons. Entertainment Weekly reports Harry Shearer, the voice behind The Simpsons’s Mr. Burns has re-joined the voice talent cast. Shearer has signed the same contract as did the other five primary voice actors?Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria?keeping the show?s original cast fully intact, EW has learned. […]
This is making the rounds on social media. Too funny not to share.
The Society of Illustrators has inducted two cartoonists to the Hall of Fame: Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit and editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Writing the introduction to Pat, Political journalist P. J. O?Rourke writes: But when the people who are wielding the swords can be made to look ridiculous?asleep like Leonid Brezhnev, a Wall Street […]
Zachary Crockett writing for Pricenomics In an era where breaking stories can be shared in real-time on the Internet, it?s odd to hold a paper that literally contains yesterday?s news ? and comics are no exception: reprints of old Garfield, Peanuts, and Dennis the Menace strips fill the page. The world has moved on, but […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Lucas Turnbloom, Justin Thompson and I talk about the San Diego Comic-Con, our memories of Con moments, and general Con stuff! I apologize for the sound this time around…let’s just […]
Publishers Weekly mentions that Off the Mark creator Mark Parisi has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins for a series of illustrated middle-grade series called Marty Pants. The first book is due out in winter of 2017. Congratulations, Mark.
French cartoonist Jean Plantureux (AKA Plantu) has been acquitted of accusations of inciting hatred by a French appeals court. The accusations stem from a cartoon (below) that depicted Pope Benedict XVI having sex with a child. The New York Times: A lower court acquitted Plantu last year, saying the cartoon came out at a time […]
Monday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich defaced a $10 bill while discussing and commenting on the recent news of the Treasury announcing future $10 bills will feature a woman. I won’t spoil the ending, you’ll have to click through the image below and watch the video. Federal law prohibits mutilating or disfiguring U.S. currency […]