Promo art for new Looney Tunes leaves some…cold
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Cartoon Brew, the respected animation blog, ran the promo art for the new Looney Tunes show we mentioned yesterday day, and the reaction can be summed up by the title of the post: Embarrassing Promo Art for CN’s Looney Tunes Show. Hm well…with the classic Warners characters, you are damned [...]
Continue ReadingKate Beaton’s Great Gatsby
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Many more in this link. Is it our imagination, or is Kate Beaton getting even MORE polished and sophisticated in her cartooning and humor? Was that even possible?
Continue ReadingRetro-abstract comics covers
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Designer Steven Finch aka Fonografiks — designer of such books as POPGUN 3, KILL ALL PARENTS!, and AQUA LEUNG, has fun reimagining the covers of some famous comics in the style of ’60s dimestore novels. Below, The Invisibles.
Continue ReadingDer: MAD magazine cartoon on the way along with Young Justice
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATED with actual art! Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva reports on Cartoon Network’s upfronts and there is much for Our Kind, a Young Justice cartoon, and a MAD magazine animated sketch comedy — why did it only take 60 yers for them to figure THAT one out? Sam Register will produce. Chowder’s [...]
Continue ReadingHarvey Awards nominations close this Friday — hurry up and nominate your friends
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Nominations for the Harvey Awards are closing this Friday. With all the nominating irregularities in recent years, I strongly advise getting together a few friends and nominating yourselves, as long as your friends include Naoki Urasawa, Jaime Hernandez, Kate Beaton, Matt Fraction, Jill Thompson, Robert Crumb, Bryan Lee O’Malley and [...]
Continue ReadingEisner Awards online voting opens
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Jackie Estrada, online voting for the annual Eisner Awards has opened. If you voted last year, your login from last year should still work. If you have forgotten your password, click Sign In, then Recover Lost Password. There are 29 categories in all, so be sure to visit all five ballot pages. [...]
Continue ReadingStrand Bag contest winners
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Peggy Burns has the results of the Strand bookstores design-a-tote contest; this is the SECOND place bag from rising star Domitille Collardey; the winning bag was by Zak Foster. BONUS BONUS: A new Strand bag by Daniel Clowes.
Continue ReadingArt Attack: Jaime Hernandez in the Village Voice -UPDATED
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Village Voice has a big cover story on Jaime Hernandez: While Hernandez’s L&R women have often been lookers, over the past 29 years he has aged them beyond youthful pulchritude into emotionally believable adults, starting with the booty-ful Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo and that lithest of live wires, Esperanza Leticia Glass. More [...]
Continue ReadingFree Comic Book Day video: “Forever Wednesday”
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This fan-made video for Free Comic Book Day is entitled “Forever Wednesday” — apparently the emerging filmmakers were unaware that nothing lasts forever. Technorati Tags: FCBD
Continue ReadingLost: The Last Recruit
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet I guess tonight’s episode proves you can’t trust anyone, can you? Discuss away.
Continue ReadingAlan Cumming drops out of Spider-Man musical which will never happen
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet EW reports that Alan Cumming, who was slated to play the Green Goblin, has dropped out of the Spider-Man musical due to actually working, namely a regular role on The Good Wife. With potential Mary Jane Evan Rachel Wood also recently exiting, and a slew of delays, restarts, revamps, and [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 4/20/10 non-con news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Gene Colan has been hospitalized with a broken shoulder and will not be able to work for a while, so friends are raising money for him via an auction. § The Financial Times looks at the phenomenon of pop stars writing comic books The success of the series has also opened [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits, 4/20/10 — convention edition
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSo many shows, so little time…. § Tim O’Shea hit FLUKE, the indie comics show in Athens, GA which sounds like it went well. § The Wizard World Anaheim Comic-Con was this weekend; here are photos which we suggest you scrutinize carefully as this could conceivably be the new San [...]
Continue ReadingIt’s Good To Be The Dream King – Part One
Share this link on Facebook!TweetI have been writing these in chronological order, but from now on I’m going to channel Lost by doing a flash forward, a flash sideways, a flashback or maybe even a flash dance – whatever suits me. By their sheer brilliance The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen and Maus all pushed the potential [...]
Continue ReadingRIP: Carl Macek (1951-2010) | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Carl Macek, a pioneer of bringing anime to America, died of a heart attack on Saturday, April 17th. He was 58. Jerry Beck, who founded Streamline Pictures with Macek in 1988, has his thoughts here, and the conversation is ongoing in the comments. It was Macek who put together three [...]
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