Posted on: August 19, 2015

Cage match: Watterson vs Schulz; and the selling out of the comic strip

by Alan Gardner August 19, 2015

Over the weekend an article was posted in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Luke Epplin contrasting the careers of Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz and their approach to commercializing their strips (or not). It’s an interesting read and I know there is no shortage of opinions on which of the two was “right”. […]

Lalo Alcaraz to work on Disney/Pixar Coco feature film

by Alan Gardner August 19, 2015

Great news from Cartoon Brew: Mexican-American political cartoonist and La Cucaracha comic creator Lalo Alcaraz made an announcement on Twitter yesterday: he?s been hired to work on Pixar?s just-announced Day of the Dead feature Coco. Alcaraz did not make clear whether he will work on the upcoming Lee Unkrich-directed film as an outside consultant or […]