ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Media Release -- The Cartoon Art Museum hosts cartoonist Alan Groening on Saturday, December 19, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will be offered the chance to talk to him about cartooning and view Alan's work. Read more » Original post blogged on ComicList .
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
For many vehicle drivers in Pune, the old figure of Mangesh Tendulkar, handing over pictures sketched by him on road safety has now become a familiar sight.
io9 (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
What happens when not enough people know about your book for it to see print? If you're cartoonist Andy Ristaino, you take to the internet to spread the word. Introducing Escape From Dullsville, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's not big government that''s been America's problem.
The Beguiling Books & Art (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hey folks! The much-anticipated documentary The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics , is now in stock at The Beguiling. We just got it in so unfortunately I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard good things and Jeff Smith himself seems pretty pleased with it. The 76 minute documentary is an extensive profile on Smith including interviews and other footage, and also includes...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Matt Pritchett has been named pocket cartoonist of the year for the sixth time at the Cartoon Art Trust awards.
Digital Strips (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sure, with webcomics we might all think we’re being cartoonists, but did you know there’s actually a secret world going on, behind-the-scenes, that most of us have never even heard of, let alone dreamed about? Now, Scott Kurtz is taking up a bar stool to tell us all about those hidden desires and guarded tales with his latest podcast endeavor, The Secret Life of Cartoonists . Hear the...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar is much more than a collection of the cult classic webcomic. The book collects the comics that predate Chris Onstad's widely acclaimed Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight, and the cartoonist's...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Spy vs. Spy has long been synonymous with MAD magazine. The wordless cartoon, created in 1961 for MAD by famed Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who left Cuba for the United States when Castro came to power, was a classic reflection of Cold War sentiments, with each combatant reflecting a mirror image of the other in trying to up the ante and get the upper hand. Here's a nice animated collection of...
Right Celebrity (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Abigail Titmuss is a model and reality tv star now set to hit the stage as the new leading lady in s Shakespeare production. She is Lady MacBeth. Find out more exciting details here. Actress Abigail Titmuss, 33, will be starring as the next Shakespeare’s Lady MacBeth. As a biography, Abigail Evelyn Titmuss was born [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not the editor of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, taking deliberate aim at the "sickly oversensitivity" of "mad mullahs"; nor the group of Danish imams...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due to their unremarkable encounters with other, more eminent, Victorians. Heavy-browed and scornful-eyed, her chin supported by one of those lace swaddling bands favoured by dowagers...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
In late 2008, David Headley, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a senior Lashkar operative, and a HUJI linkman began plotting a terror strike in Denmark...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a new comic, cartoonist Patrick Moberg compares various web 2.0 social networking tools to intoxicating drugs, including tumblr, twitter, vimeo, and myspace. But don’t think that he holds these utilities in low regard. Moberg once used them and more to locate a girl that he saw on a NYC subway. Link via Urlesque [...]
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifty years ago this week, the world was introduced to Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. An animated television series called Rocky and His Friends debuted on ABC at 5:30 pm on November 19, 1959. In 1961, the show moved to NBC, where it was renamed The Bullwinkle Show and ran until 1964. [...]
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