Sunday, October 31, 2010
Happy Halloween: Charles Addams Movie Titles
From 1976, here are the opening titles from MURDER BY DEATH, a so-so movie with a great cast and an opening drawn by the one and only Charles Addams. It runs almost 2 1/2 minutes.A bit hat tip to Michael Maslin for posting this first on his blog!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Comic Boom in Keene, NH
Good ol' Stephen Bissette and other creators will be at Comic Boom in Keene, NH until 4pm today. All info here. Wish I could drop in ...Hat tip to Comics Reporter!
Halloween Cartoon
That time of the week again. Another Cartoon Caption contest over at the cartoonist forum. Only the caption element has been relaxed somewhat. The theme was set as Halloween, with the option to add a caption if you wanted to. Getting more comfortable using the Cintiq now. I have made Windows Vista look crap in the name of performance. Working on 100MB files with multiple layers is straining my
Friday, October 29, 2010
Potential Career Day Questions About Cartooning
I'm participating in a local high school career day today. John Klossner and I will have a table where we talk about being a cartoonist. I'm trying to anticipate questions ....
FOLLOW UP
One of our clients from Canada came through to add some more work to the piece dedicated to her son.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
University of Missouri Celebrates Mort Walker
Cartoonist Mort Walker Friday steps inside Mort’s, an eatery modeled after The Shack, with his granddaughter Isobel Walker at the new MU Student Center. Photo by Don Shrubshell.The University of Missouri unveiled its new student center last week, with some help from illustrious alum Mort Walker. The new eatery was named in honor of the cartoonist.The corner lounge features a backdrop of Beetle
Interview: Editorial Cartoonist Cam Cardow
Canadian editorial cartoonist Cam Cardow talks about his life in this interview in the Abbotsford News by Neil Corbett.I especially liked this exchange, " a conversation Cam Cardow has replayed many times in his life."“What do you do for a living?” “I’m an editorial cartoonist.” “Wow, that’s cool! I’ve never met one before!” “That’s because there are only about 20 of us in
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Robin Soderling
Robin SoderlingRobin Bo Carl Söderling (Swedish pronunciation: born 14 August 1984 in Tibro) is a professional tennis player from Sweden who is currently ranked 5 in the ATP rankings. Söderling is best known for reaching successive French Open finals in 2009 and 2010. In both tournaments, he defeated the defending champion en route to the final—Rafael Nadal in 2009 (becoming the first and, to date, only player to defeat Nadal at the French Open), and Roger Federer in 2010 (ending Federer's record streak of 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals). But it was Federer and Nadal who beat Söderling in the 2009 and 2010 French Open finals respectively. He is coached by former world no.2 Magnus Norman.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Cartoonist Dedication
I just got an email from a young, just-starting-out cartoonist who lives in the UK, and is having a hard time finding markets. He asks for advice. I thought I'd respond here.(Above: a cartoon of mine from the Harvard Business Review. Yes, a cat cartoon in a business mag! A refreshing change of pace from the "people in meetings" cartoons and the "boss at his/her desk" cartoons.)The great thing
Romania National Football Team
Romania National Football TeamThe Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.
Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.
However, after that performance, they only qualified for the 1970, 1990, 1994 and 1998 editions. Their finest hour came at the 1994 World Cup where Romania, led by playmaker Gheorghe Hagi, reached the quarterfinals by defeating South American powerhouse Argentina before losing to Sweden on a penalty shootout.
At the Euros, Romania's best performance was in 2000 when they advanced to quarterfinals from a group with Germany, Portugal and England before falling to eventual runners-up Italy.
Romania also played at Euro 1984, Euro 1996, Euro 2000 and Euro 2008.Source : WIkipedia.com
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas WawrinkaStanislas "The Manislas" Wawrinka (born 28 March 1985 in Lausanne) is a Swiss professional tennis player. His career ranking high is 9, achieved on 9 June 2008.
He considers clay his best surface, and his backhand his best shot. He won the gold medal for Switzerland in the men's doubles event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, partnering Roger Federer, by beating Swedish team Simon Aspelin/Thomas Johansson in the final. They were also honoured with the 2008 Swiss Team of the Year Award.
John McEnroe believes Wawrinka has one of the most powerful backhands he has ever seen and describes him as having "the best one-handed backhand in the game today".
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Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa KleybanovaAlisa Mikhaelovna Kleybanova Russian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA world ranking to date is No. 22, achieved on March 22, 2010. Kleybanova has won two WTA singles titles.
Maria Kirilenko Tennis Player
Maria Kirilenko Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко; born in Moscow on 25 January 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian Open, as well as the 2002 US Open junior tournament. She has reached one Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2010 Australian Open. As of 20 September 2010, Kirilenko is ranked World No. 24.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Leo Cullum Dies at 68
Leo Cullum, a gag cartoonist for The New Yorker, has died at the age of 68. The cause was cancer.Although I never met Mr. Cullum, I always admired his grand cartoons. He was one of the most consistently funny cartoonists I'd read.I had no idea that he had been battling cancer and this comes as a shock.NY Times obit here.
Mike Lynch: 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art
Some selected moments that I experienced at the recent 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art.Notes:Steve Breen made the comment in the first panel. He was making a joke. Billy Ireland was an important cartoonist in Columbus's history and among the cartoonists he mentored were Caniff and Sickles. If you go and Google his work, you'll see that Ireland's cartoons, most having to with the history of Columbus
Northern Ireland National Football Team
Northern Ireland National Football TeamThe Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international football. Before 1921, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association (IFA). In 1921, the jurisdiction of the IFA was reduced to Northern Ireland, following the secession of clubs in the soon-to-be Irish Free State, although its team purported to remain the national team for all of Ireland until 1950, and to use the name Ireland until the mid-1970s. The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) organises the separate Republic of Ireland national football team.
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