A Sacramento judge released Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell from custody Thursday ahead of a Feb. 4 court date as prosecutors added more child porn allegations to his case. The 49-year-old Bell faces a number of conditions of his release — and yet more charges filed in an amended complaint by Sacramento County prosecutors who […]
From NBC Bay Area News: A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist with Bay Area ties has been arrested in Sacramento County on suspicion of child pornography. Darrin Bell, 49, a famed cartoonist who got his start at UC Berkeley, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Sacramento County jail on possession of child porn, according to Internet […]
Today is Giving Tuesday, a day marked for giving back to your community. As a cartoonist or one who appreciates their contribution to society, please consider donating to Cartoonists Rights Network International to support their efforts to defend and assist threatened editorial cartoonists around the world. Cartoonists Rights is the first human rights nonprofit with […]
Cartoonists Rights Network International and 130 civil liberties, religious, reproductive health, immigrant rights, human rights, racial justice, LGBTQ+, environmental, and educational organizations are asking supporters to contact their congressional representatives to urge them to vote down H.R. 9495. The groups fear, if enacted, the new law could be abused by allowing the U.S. government to […]
What happened? From Console and Associates P.C. via JD Supra: On January 25, 2023, Andrews McMeel Universal (“AMU”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of New Hampshire after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access confidential consumer information maintained on the company’s IT network. In this notice, AMU explains […]
Continuing with Mike’s plagiarism theme of this morning we come to MalMidjourney. During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to a Google Sheet on the social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky, alleging that it showed how Midjourney developed a database of time periods, styles, genres, movements, mediums, techniques, and thousands of […]
What better way to start Monday than with Garfield. He’s got a new movie coming out next year. Variety has some details and the just released trailer: Chris Pratt embodies the world’s most sarcastic yet endearing orange feline in the trailer for “The Garfield Movie,” premiering in theaters on Feb. 16, 2024. The new animated […]
The plaintiffs (Moonbug) own the popular kids YouTube channel CoComelon. Moonbug’s videos have garnered more than 165 billion (with a “b”) views on YouTube, outstreaming Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and Drake combined. In 2021, Moonbug sued the defendants (Babybus), alleging that the defendants’ Super JoJo website included videos, characters and other content that infringed upon […]
A cease-and-desist order has been issued to a cartoonist over his drawing of a Denver landmark. From Westword: Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz [link added] on Monday said he had received a cease-and-desist email from Etsy prompted by his attempts to sell an illustration of Casa Bonita on the online marketplace. “Casa Bonita LLC reported […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — An Italian company did not get away with contesting the copyright of the Caped Crusader on Wednesday, as the EU’s second-highest court rejected a claim the logo was too generic. Courthouse News Service reports on the win for the owner: The comic creator has held the rights to use the […]
Editorial cartoonist Rick McKee opined on the new Artificial Intelligence use of creating art works and cartoon images by utilizing an AI software application to help create his most recent cartoon. Rick explained on Facebook: I generated the bulk of this cartoon using MidJourney, a text-to-image generating AI. After many failed attempts and lots of […]
A Modern Day Battle Over Prince Valiant Brian Kane, the preeminent Prince Valiant scholar, and Gary Groth, the preeminent Prince Valiant book publisher, are at odds over a six part Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks series with King Features seemingly caught in the middle. Rich Johnston, at Bleeding Cool, carries both sides. Brian Kane: “I […]
New Kid by Jerry Craft, Maus by Art Spiegelman, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Anne Frank’s Diary (Graphic Adaptation) adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, and, of course, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe are among the most challenged or banned comic books since the […]
In 16 months Mickey Mouse‘s official debut* animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, will go public domain, but The Mouse will remain very much a Disney property. © Disney The iconic character that has come to define the entire Disney brand made his first appearance as the title character in 1928’s Steamboat Willie, which will lapse into […]
Book publishers just spent 3 weeks in court arguing they have no idea what they’re doing On August 22, oral arguments ended in the Justice Department’s antitrust trial to block the book publisher Penguin Random House from merging with rival Simon & Schuster. The result of the trial, which is expected to be decided later […]