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Editorial cartoonists push back on NYT
Feb 7, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Jim Romenesko has the details on a small WTF by editorial cartoonists after the The New York Times offered to run an original editorial cartoon in the Sunday The Week in Review starting February 26. At issue is the Times’ offer to pay $250 to the selected cartoonist, but requires all entrants to submit original, [...]
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Radioactive spider-webs found in nuclear facility?
Feb 7, 2012 by Alan Gardner
The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The idea of some radioactive biological substance brings to mind Peter Parker who gained his super spider abilities by being bitten by a radioactive spider. Experts say that [...]
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Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest kicks off
Feb 7, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 [...]
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MetLife posts cartoon-filled Superbowl commercial extras
Feb 7, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Once again Mark Anderson is point man on all things the MetLife Superbowl commercial that featured over 75 different comic strip and Saturday morning cartoon characters. MetLife has posted four extra scenes. I’ve posted one below. Head over to Mark’s blog where he’s posted the other three.
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Mystery solved: Tribune pulled Doonesbury because it promoted a charity
Feb 7, 2012 by Alan Gardner
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific [...]
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Annie Awards announced; Rango takes Best Animated Feature
Feb 6, 2012 by Alan Gardner
The Annie Awards have been announced. The Annies are the animation industries highest honor and was held last Saturday. This year the Best Animated Feature went to Rango. Here are the official results: Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) – Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, [...]
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Conservatives getting whipped into a lather over misrepresented historical cartoon
Feb 6, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Some in conservatives circles are using an historical propaganda cartoon used in a Iowa classroom as rhetoric to end “the government monopoly on education” because it supports the teaching of communism. The cartoon contrasts capitalism and communism (above) and depicts individuals in capitalism as shackled and their money going to rich, fat bosses while those [...]
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Lynch: Chris Hayes Show didn’t compensate cartoonist
Feb 6, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Mike Lynch noticed an uncredited cartoon that appeared during MSNBC’s UP WITH CHRIS HAYES yesterday and tracked down the cartoon to Lian Amaris. A quick tweet to Lian and a response back confirmed that that the cartoon was used without her knowledge and compensation. Mike writes: If someone puts one of my cartoons on their [...]
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Garfield enters ebook market
Feb 6, 2012 by Alan Gardner
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing. His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House [...]
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Call for papers for Comics & Medicine conference
Feb 6, 2012 by Alan Gardner
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk [...]
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Superbowl commercial brings 75+ cartoon characters together
Feb 4, 2012 by Alan Gardner
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of Peanuts to Saturday Morning favorites. Mark Anderson broke the commercial down to a near frame-by-frame rate to catalog all of the cameos – both official and unofficial. He spotted at least one credit error and [...]
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QR coded Doonesbury pulled from major newspaper
Feb 3, 2012 by Alan Gardner
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. [...]
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