What G. Butt can learn from Greg Heffley
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Who’s more popular? A stick figure middle-schooler or a burly Scotsman who’s entranced everyone from Madonna to Gabourey Sidibe with his roguish charms? Take a wild guess. Like Nikki Finke, we take some fun in rubbing in the fact that the much hyped film THE BOUNTY HUNTER, which forced Butler and [...]
Continue ReadingTravel the world with…cartoonists!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Wim at the FP Int’l blog alerts us to a new series of French language Lone Planet travel guides with covers by cartoonists associated with the cities. Thus we get Jacques Martin’s Alix in Rome; François Schuiten pm Brussels; NY native Miles Hyman on New York; and of course, Huge Pratt’s [...]
Continue ReadingTwo must read stories: Kirby and “the fate of the periodical.”
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet • The NY Times examines the legal wranglings over Jack Kirby’s contribution to the Marvel legacy, and gives it some context: The dispute is also emblematic of a much larger conflict between intellectual property lawyers and media companies that, in Mr. Toberoff’s view, have made themselves vulnerable by building franchises atop old [...]
Continue ReadingNecessary: Celebrity tweets + cartoons
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Illustrator Odessa Begay captures the zeitgeist of 2010 pretty well with Museum of Modern Tweets, as the ephemeral thoughts of twittering slebs are illustrated in a becoming fashion. Dunno about you, but once a week just isn’t enough.
Continue Readingpood anthology announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A few months ago we were asking “what is pood?” and it turns out, it’s a new comics anthology printed in the newly fashionable newspaper size. Planned as a quarterly. the first issue will debut at MoCCA. Contributors include Joe Infurnari, Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca, Hans Rickheit, Connor Willumsen, Sara [...]
Continue ReadingPunchbuggy Tour Part II hits the road
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via PR, Ken Dahl (MONSTERS, WELCOME TO THE DAHL HOUSE), Liz Baillie (MY BRAIN HURTS, FREEWHEEL) and MK Reed (CROSS COUNTRY, AMERICUS) are at it again with their Punchbuggy Tour, criss-crossing the Northeast and Canada. The Punchbuggy Tour is a multimedia event featuring live comics readings accompanied by a lively ukulele [...]
Continue ReadingEven FoxTrot cannot escape the coming of the iPad
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This Sunday’s FoxTrot by Bill Amend takes on the coming revolution. The person who sent me this link wondered if the iPad will have any effect on comic strips…we wonder the same thing. What do you think? PS: How funny is it to see a cartoonist’s Twitter feed included in the gutter [...]
Continue ReadingChris Evans as Cap — four-timer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Borys Kit is reporting that Chris Evans has been offered the role of Captain America.. As we like to point out, Evans definitely has the right physique for playing a superhero, and in fact has played three previous comic book based characters: two turns as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch in the [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — mailbag edition
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile we were on the road the mailbag was stacking up, so here’s the keepin’ it real catch-up post. Keep those cards and letters coming, folks. § Okay, this is not from the mailbag. You must be THIS NERDY to remember this cover. Alex Robinson “chases the dragon”: I first played the game [...]
Continue ReadingFocus on: Scott Pilgrim’s danglers
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Following today’s blockbuster news of SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR, with such ancillary products as this super sweet WALLPAPER, attention turned to one thing: Are those his nads?
Continue ReadingThree for the letters: Twilight, Thoughts, Breath
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More than a few interesting posts that discuss the lettering side of comics of late. At Comics Alliance, Chris Sims demonstrates the horrible, amateurish lettering style, that puts balloons right over the characters’ faces in the bajillion selling TWILIGHT: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. This is kind of odd, since publisher Yen Press [...]
Continue Reading2010 Reuben Award nominees announced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe National Cartoonists Society has announced the 2010 nominees for their Reuben awards, given to the finest in cartooning and illustration. Stephen Pastis, Dan Piraro, and Richard Thompson will vie for THE Reuben, given to the finest cartoonist of the year, but other nominees include David Mazzucchelli and Paul Pope. Complete [...]
Continue ReadingSCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The sixth and final volume of the Scott Pilgrim saga has just been announced, for a July 20th release. It’s called SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR, and the cover promises a finale on par with RETURN OF THE JEDI, HP and the Deathly Hallows, or at least Escape from Gilligan’s Island. [...]
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Continue ReadingNewest, wizardly member of Guardians of the Globe — UPDATED
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet. Well, now it’s been revealed that Rick Grimes, Spawn, Obama and Harry Potter are not really going to be in this series. The real lineup will be revealed next week. Drat.
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