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The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will open an exhibit of original work from the upcoming feature film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” on November 23rd and will run through January 10, 2009. This exhibit features two sets from the stop motion animated film, “Flint Mine – We ...
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Gary Brookins has taken a six month reprieve from doing editorial cartooning, according to an email posted on Daryl Cagle’s blog. Gary, who was laid off from the Richmond Times-Dispatch last spring, stepped away from editorial cartooning in June to concentrate on painting.
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Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post,
has been awarded this year’s 2009 Berryman Award for
Editorial Cartooning for a wide-ranging series of drawings that poked fun at politicians, journalists and public perceptions. Honorable ...
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Mike Keefe wins 2009 Berryman Award
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» The Animation blog reports that Pixar is pushing “Up” heavily for a nomination for Best Picture.
» The Washington Post profiles John Tayman who started the Bang Cartoons where he posts NFL related animated cartoons.
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Beginning yesterday, Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson is donating 100% of his personal royalties from his “Zig-Zagging: Loving Madly, Losing Badly…How Ziggy Saved My Life” book to LIVESTRONG. LIVESTRONG is a foundation created by cycling legend Lance Armstrong to provide cancer awareness, ...
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About 20 people picketed the offices of Newsday yesterday protesting the publishing of a Mallard Fillmore cartoon last Sunday and demanded that the editor, John Mancini, be fired for running the cartoon according to Editor & Publisher.
The cartoon depicts a large dinosaur chasing a smaller ...
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Editor & Publisher interviews Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau who has a new book based on the tweets of his Roland Hedley character entitled, “My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?: The Tweets of Roland Hedley”
Q. Why did you want to do a book in this form?
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Starting today Uclick’s Comics Sherpa service has adopted the same interface that has been available to GoComics users, accessable through a primary tab on the GoComics website. Now GoComicsPro subscribers will be able to add Comics Sherpa features to their custom comics page along with ...
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I’ve mentioned this in a news brief, but to publicize it more, I’m giving it a full post. Tom Racine’s “Tall Tales Radio” podcast has been nominated for The People’s Choice Podcast Awards in the Cultural/Arts category. If you’ve listened to his program ...
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Editor & Publisher reports that a new study from Scarborough Research reveals that 74% of adults in the US read a newspaper either online or in print in the last week.
This number counters the notion that newspapers no longer impact consumers. “Given the fragmentation of media ...
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“Merry Madagascar”, a 30 minute Madagascar Christmas special, airs tonight on NBC. The feature stars the original voice talent of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer who starred in the feature films.
The Washington Post gives it a favorable review minus the ...
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The New York Times reports that a new Forrester survey reveals that 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada are not willing to pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites.
According to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to ...
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Sohmer and Lars, creators of the webcomic Least
I Could Do have announce the creation of a
new scholarship for a career-oriented webcomicker to attend The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Sohmer writes: I have always been vocal about my beliefs ...
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Scholarship created for webcomics at CCS
The Toonseum has moved locations to the Cultural District in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday. The grand opening featured a speech by executive director Joe Wos and a ribbon cutting ceremony by Toonseum president and Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers with former city mayor Sophie ...
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Editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (aka “KAL”) was recently asked to provide caricatures for a fundraiser featuring Baltimore native filmmakers Barry Levenson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog, Diner, Liberty Heights), John Waters (Hairspray, Serial Mom) and David Simon (Homicide, The Wire) ...
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The family of the late Stephen Slesinger, who
gave Winnie-the-Pooh his trademark red shirt, has sued Disney
over alleged unpaid royalties. The family had previously sued Disney and lost over licensing rights. The court decision established Disney as ...
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Winnie-the-Pooh heirs sue Disney. Again
Last week the news that Tom Richmond and Ray Grigg’s “Bobble Rep” iPhone app had been rejected from the iTunes App Store went viral across Mac and cartooning blogs. Saturday, Tom was notified that Apple had reversed its decision and the app is now in the App Store.
Bobble Rep, ...
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Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot, fresh off of a featured guest appearance at an international cartoon exhibition in Algiers and speaking engagements in Morocco, is on her way to Thailand on November 15 to take part in Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.
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This year’s Friends of Lulu Award winners have been announced. The Lulu Award “recognizes the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women. The category award winners are below:
Kim Yale Award For Best New ...
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» A reader of the Cape Cod Times wrote in a letter suggesting cartoonist Jim Borgman annd Jerry Scott should be “penalized for submitting such inappropriate and offensive material in the future by a substantial monetary withholding” after reading a recent Zits comic ...
