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MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A journeyman actor for over four decades, John Phillip Law achieved cult-figure status primarily on the basis of two '60s movies based on European comic strips: Barbarella , in which he played a blind angel who has a hell of a time with a sex-kittenish Jane Fonda ; and Danger: Diabolik , a Pop Arty comedy caper that effectively cast him as a masked criminal mastermind. Depending on your...
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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | yesterday
... new people. Either way, it's dirty. Pigpen, the Charles Schultz drawn character from the Peanuts comic strips . The more you know about how stuff works in this city, and in fairness to the City of Washington, it's how stuff is done elsewhere as well, the more you feel dirty when you deal with issues surrounding (1) government contracts, (2) land deals involving the city; (3) eminent...
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Titivil (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the interest of posting random comic strips only because they make you laugh out loud, I offer this specimen , the product of a gentleman who goes by the unlikely moniker "KC Green", and the rest of whose shit seems to be pretty decent. I am posting this at the recommendation of a buddy of mine who sent me the link in an email with the subject line, "Because it's 2am and beer", which...
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Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age. Along these same lines, Spirit Magazine, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, recently published an article on Nickelodeon which includes a wonderful illustration of some popular cartoon and comics characters as senior citizens. via Neatorama & [...]...
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The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Mort Walker’s International Museum of Cartoon Art (IMCA) will be moving its estimated 200,000 piece collection to the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library creating the largest collection of original cartoon art in the world. IMCA’s collection consists original drawings from all genres of cartoon art (comic strips, comic books, animation, editorial, advertising, sport,...
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The second Spot the Frog collectionAs if we needed further evidence how tough it is out there for new newspaper comic strips to get started, Spot the Frog creator Mark Heath announced on his Web site that he plans on ending the strip soon: I’ll be bringing the strip to an end July 5 (dailies), June [...]
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George Junior (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
From Virginia Commonwealth University's Blake Collection of True Life Comics:- The Blake Collection of True Life Comics is part of Special Collections and Archives' Comics Arts Collection -- which includes an extensive collection of reference periodicals and books about the art and history of comic strips, comic books, and related subjects; nearly 10,000 comic...
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Download Squad (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Filed under: Design , Fun , Macintosh Comic Life Magiq is the latest and greatest version of the familiar Comic Life app you've probably seen bundled with some Macs. It takes the Comic Life concept of building comic strips using your own images, and gives you a fully-loaded toolbox that makes the job easy and a lot of fun. To build a nice-looking page, all you have...
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Ctrl+Alt+Del (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Well, I'm back. Got home from Florida a few hours ago. I meant to make a news post before I left, but sort of got wrapped up in some stuff. And with that, my vacation is officially over and I'm all out of pre-drawn comic strips. It's back to work now!I think it's safe to say that I hate Orlando. And not just for the I can ignore the fact that it's like driving through one giant commercial....
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... he knew that, but for him it was true love at last. I'm kind of a Lynda Barry nut. Love her comic strips especially. Oh the greatness of Marlys ! Let's try our "Cast This!" book club selection... The Curse of Chalion . (This is an odd meme because nothing makes sense out of context) Musicians and dancers stopped for breath after a brisk roundel, and Cazaril joined the smattering of...
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I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
For fans of Dilbert, here's an archive of all the Dilbert comic strips from 1989 to 2008 and more ! Enjoy. (Thanks Agagooga )
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Discovering Identity (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
It's late on a Friday night. I'm babysitting my granddaughter, reading the newspaper and perusing the web. A few comic strips I read today provide a bit of wry commentary on the state of things in our always-high-tech and often-maddening world. First, a perceptive Dilbert has a calloused, but dangerously accurate view of market projections ... Both Louann and Gunther are searching for...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The experiment was launched by researchers in the face of evidence that traditional posters, ads and comic strips telling young people about the hazards of smoking are nowhere near as effective as peer pressure for making cigarettes unfashionable.
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Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... a black cat and starts moving in on...well, let's sit back and watch the catfight in these strips from Otto Messmer's classic Felix the Cat comic strip, as Felix heads to the airport to pick up his visiting cousin from down under: White cat Alex isn't in town just to see the Catnip Museum and the Broadway musical Cats , however...he's only around for a few comic strips...
