Media Release -- The Cartoon Art Museum hosts cartoonist Alan Groening on Saturday, December 19, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will be offered the chance to talk to him about cartooning and view Alan's work. Read more » Original post blogged on ComicList .
Hey folks! The much-anticipated documentary The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics , is now in stock at The Beguiling. We just got it in so unfortunately I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard good things and Jeff Smith himself seems pretty pleased with it. The 76 minute documentary is an extensive profile on Smith including interviews and other footage, and also includes...
Sure, with webcomics we might all think we’re being cartoonists, but did you know there’s actually a secret world going on, behind-the-scenes, that most of us have never even heard of, let alone dreamed about? Now, Scott Kurtz is taking up a bar stool to tell us all about those hidden desires and guarded tales with his latest podcast endeavor, The Secret Life of Cartoonists . Hear the...
If you're in Chicago on November 24th, consider taking in a show. New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes has written a 50 minute musical titled "Fässi Goboggan and the Curly Headed Girl" which will have its first staged reading next Tuesday night at 7pm at the Theatre Building Chicago . "'Fässi Goboggan and the Curly Headed Girl' — by Pat Byrnes (with help from Rebecca Byrnes...
Spy vs. Spy has long been synonymous with MAD magazine. The wordless cartoon, created in 1961 for MAD by famed Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who left Cuba for the United States when Castro came to power, was a classic reflection of Cold War sentiments, with each combatant reflecting a mirror image of the other in trying to up the ante and get the upper hand. Here's a nice animated collection of...
The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not the editor of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, taking deliberate aim at the "sickly oversensitivity" of "mad mullahs"; nor the group of Danish imams...
Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due to their unremarkable encounters with other, more eminent, Victorians. Heavy-browed and scornful-eyed, her chin supported by one of those lace swaddling bands favoured by dowagers...
In a new comic, cartoonist Patrick Moberg compares various web 2.0 social networking tools to intoxicating drugs, including tumblr, twitter, vimeo, and myspace. But don’t think that he holds these utilities in low regard. Moberg once used them and more to locate a girl that he saw on a NYC subway. Link via Urlesque [...]
Fifty years ago this week, the world was introduced to Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. An animated television series called Rocky and His Friends debuted on ABC at 5:30 pm on November 19, 1959. In 1961, the show moved to NBC, where it was renamed The Bullwinkle Show and ran until 1964. [...]
By Debbie SchlusselYaakov Kirschen, better known as “Dry Bones,” is Israel’s most prolific and well-known political cartoonist. I’ve enjoyed many of his right-on-target cartoons over the years. Reader Raymond sent me this one, below, “The Islamist and the Non-Believer,” which has to be the political cartoon of the year. It says it all about the [...]
Here is cartoonist Stephanie McMillan . She and writer Derrick Jensen are collaborating on a new children's book, MISCHIEF IN THE FOREST. They ask that people give them money in exchange for copies of the book, sketches, being taken out to dinner by Stephanie and Derrick, etc. This is a Kickstarter.com project. Kickstarter is a "funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers" and others...
If you've been around long enough to have seen the Liberty Bell when it was on tour, you probably are familiar with the comic strip Henry. Henry is the other little bald-headed boy, who for decades never uttered a word. The strip was created by Carl Anderson and became popular world-wide due to using the universal language of pictures.An interesting note about Anderson, which might or might not
The number of people who download The Boondocks episodes is escalating day by day and series is climbing its way to tremendous success. The Boondocks is based on the satiric Aaron McGruder comic strip of the same name. The show follows the adventures of two black boys, Riley and Huey Freeman, who experience a culture clash when they move from southside Chicago to the “boondocks” to live with their
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Solutions & Guide (Video) The game was jointly developed by Vicarious Visions (Playstation 3 and Xbox 360), n-Space (DS, Playstation 2, and Wii) and Savage Entertainment (PSP), and will be published by Activision. The game features characters from the Marvel Comics universe and elements of the Secret War and Civil War storylines. Read More From Orginal Site
St Trinian's is the sixth in a long-running series of films based on the works of cartoonist Ronald Searle. The first four films form a series, starting with The Belles of St Trinian's in 1954, with sequels in 1957, 1960, 1966 and 1980. The 2007 release, coming 27 years after the last entry, and 53 years after the first film, is a rebooting of the franchise, rather than a direct sequel, with certain