Wednesday, March 30, 2011
SKIPPY VS. THE MOB by Percy Crosby
Rosebud Archives publishes some unseen Percy Crosby art in its new softcover book SKIPPY VS. THE MOB.From the description:This important new book collects, for the first time, the only continuity Percy Crosby ever drew in his widely-syndicated Skippy comics, and features a comprehensive essay by the artist’s courageous daughter, chronicling an astonishing history of fraud, persecution, and
DOCTOR WHO Series Six HD Trailer
Here's the brand new 60 second HD trailer for DOCTOR WHO series six, premiering in the UK and the US on April 23, 2011A bit hat tip to Life, Doctor Who and Combom blog -- which, by the way, has a link to 300 hi res frame grabs from the trailer for your parsing pleasure.
Chester Gould's Early Years of Struggle
Above: a sports feature by Chester Gould. The feature was rejected the same year that TRACY was accepted.Chester Gould created DICK TRACY. Yeah, yeah, everyone knows that.But, before that -- before TRACY -- Mr. Gould persisted, enduring rejection after rejection, for a decade, before he hit on what was then called PLAINCLOTHES TRACY.Mr. Gould took a cartoon correspondence course when he was a
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Hugo Pratt Exhibit
Oscar Grillo shares photos from the Hugo Pratt exhibit at the Pinacothèque de Paris: part one and part two. Some spectacular images that makes me wish I could fly there right now and see it myself. Thanks very much for these, Oscar!Related: Art Daily's description of this exhibit, which has over 300 works by Mr. Pratt. The gallery show runs through August 21, 2011.
Tom Tomorrow Leaves Salon
Tom Tomorrow is leaving Salon.com after 16 years.From Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World Web site announcement:"I’ve had an extraordinary run at Salon, and it has been a fantastic platform, which I have been privileged to share with many talented contributors over the years. But as Blinky notes in this week’s farewell cartoon, I’ve been there for about a million years in internet time."He will
THE COMICS by Brian Walker
THE COMICS: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings together the previously released two volume set (THE COMICS BEFORE 1945 and THE COMICS AFTER 1945) under one cover for $40.Author Brian Walker writes the history of newspaper comics, with copious samples. If you know Brian and his work, you know this is an excellent book to add to your shelf. I have a number of his books, including his BARNEY GOOGLE and
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
1972: Cartoonist Henry Martin Interview
Henry Martin was a contract cartoonist for The New Yorker. Mr Martin drew, so I am told by a cartoonist friend of his, five finished cartoons a day. The interview below, from Cartoonist PROfiles #14, June 1972, corroborates this.This was back in the day when most cartoonists presented pencil roughs. A batch of these roughs were shown to the editor, usually on "look day;" the day that
Saturday, March 26, 2011
FIRST WE PRAY
BiGG Snoop came thru to Represent for Life of the homie Nate DoGG.You Will Be Remembered!
Friday, March 25, 2011
Video: Chris Browne HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Interview
Mr. Media interviews Chris Browne, who draws King Features' HAGAR THE HORRIBLE (hence Chris wearing the Viking hat). HAGAR appears in over 1900 newspapers in 58 countries and is translated into 13 languages.Here's the interview, in 4 parts.Related: the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE hardcover book, collecting 428 dailies from the genesis of the strip 1974 to 1975.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
CAPTAIN AMERICA Movie Trailer
Here's the new trailer for the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER theatrical movie. What I didn't know about it was that the thingis very much like the Simon & Kirby original story: Steve Rogers, a scrawny 90 lb. weakling is unfit to join the US Army, is transformed via some scientific hoo hah into a super soldier. Like the original comic book, the movie is a WW2 period piece. With a supporting
Video: Jim Henson's WIZARD OF ID Pilot
Here's 4 minutes of a 1969 color TV test pilot of Johnny Hart and Brant Parker's WIZARD OF ID, as produced by Jim Henson.More background on the project at Jim's Red Book.Hat tip to Charles Burbaker via Alan Gardner.
That New PEANUTS Special
Have they gone TOO FAR with this new PEANUTS special?!?!No, just kidding.The above image is a 1963 parody of Mr. Schulz's runaway best seller by the great Hank Ketcham, from the 17th Annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards newsletter.Seriously ... there is a new PEANUTS special. But it won't be on TV. Not yet.From what I have heard, this special is reverently done in the Lee-Melendez
Jerry Robinson: Life After Batman
Did you know there's a documentary about Jerry Robinson in the works? I didn't! Here's a great peek at Jerry, The Joker, Jet Scott and more:This is from the Profession Cartoonist series -- the same team that gave us Will Eisner Profession Cartoonist documentary.Related: Jerry's Lambiek page
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Here is a classic soul record by Weldon Irvine "Morning Sunrise" and a classic track offMemphis Bleek's album 534 that was sampled from Mr. Irvine's original recording. Produced by Just Blaze
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Cartoonist Dan Reynolds Gallery Show
The Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY, exhibits 200 of Dan Reynolds' gag cartoons in its Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds gallery show, March 12 thru July 1o, 2011. Molly English-Bowers writing for the Syracuse New Times, pens a profile of Dan:"While he’s nationally known and has his share of followers in Central New York, many of those followers don’t realize he lives
Interview: David Boswell
The creator of Reid Fleming, The World's Toughest Milkman, David Boswell, is interviewed by Tom Hawthorn in The Globe and Mail. David Boswell will be inducted into the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Reid Fleming has been around since 1978. He's an angry guy; a symbol for all the put-upon working masses. The character is"... a misanthropic purveyor of
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Mike Shapiro Interview
Veteran gag cartoonist Mike Shapiro is interviewed by Mike Rhode for The Washington Paper. I learned about Mike Shapiro's extensive cartooning background: "I went to The Joe Kubert School and studied animation. At the time the great Milt Neil was running the program. Before that I took Mort Gerberg's well-known magazine cartooning class at Parsons. Around that time I also took a class from Paul
Dueling Banjo Pigs Gallery Show
Provo, Utah: The Terra Nova Gallery presents the Dueling Banjo Pigs exhibit, which is based on Guy Francis' and Stacy Curtis' Dueling Banjo Pigs blog. The show runs from April 1 to April 29, 2011.A Dueling Banjo Pigs blog? How did that happen, you may well ask?!It started out with a duel between friends. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator, Stacy Curtis, to a duel of banjo playing pigs. Now
Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner
He's 80 and he's all over the place. Here are but 2 clips to celebrate the Captain whose heart will last forever --On International Talk Like William Shatner Day (that's ... TODAY!), even celebrities mimic Shatner. To see what Jason Alexander is talking about, see the second video. That's "risk is our business" speech from the TOS episode "Return to Tomorrow:"<br&
Roger Rees: The New Gomez Addams
Above: Mr. Rees caricatured by the WSJ's Ken Fallin.Roger Rees will step into Nathan Lane's role as Gomez Addams, the family patriarch in the Broadway musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, so Joanne Kaufman writes for the Wall Street Journal. "The tango-crazed ghoul Gomez 'is a big old part,' he continued. 'It's like Toby Belch in 'Twelfth Night.' You drive the whole play. As I'm rehearsing I go: 'That
Hairy Green Eyeball
Hey, did you know that the Hairy Green Eyeball blog has moved to the Hairy Green Eyeball blog 3?Take a look at some of these grand POLLY AND HER PALS pages via ASIFA. And peek at CAPTAIN GEORGE'S HOW TO DRAW.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Cartoonist Dragged by Taxi; Drawing Hand "Shredded"
Australia: GINGER MEGGS cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield was dragged, his arm stick in the passenger side window of a Melbourne taxi, for 15 meters, before falling. He had a seizure and lost consciousness.The incident took place at Elizabeth St and Collins St about 3.20am Sunday morning, March 20th.Jason describes what happened. This is from the Sydney Morning Herald story:"'My girlfriend
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Johnny Bravo Wallpapers
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Zelda Wallpapers
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Friday, March 18, 2011
My Cover Art: DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE
Above: a pencil and wash rough.Hey! My first book cover! Wow! And the book just came out.The above images IS NOT the cover. But it was getting close.Here's the background:I was contacted last spring by an editor at St. Martin's Press about drawing a cover for Ed Breslin's nonfiction hardcover memoir DRINKING WITH MISS DUTCHIE.The book's about a guy (Ed) and his beloved black Labrador dog who
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