Beginning July 9th, ToykoPop’s top-selling manga Princess Ai will be headed to many American Sunday newspapers, courtesy of Universal Newspaper Syndicate. The co-creation of rocker, actress and idol of EMS workers Courtney Love along with Misaho Kujiradou, Yazawa Ai, and others, Princess Ai is reportedly Love’s fantasy alter-ego. Prior to becoming an American idol, Love…
Perhaps the comics’ first "costumed" hero, Mandrake The Magician, is headed to the big screen once again. The creation of Lee Falk (who created The Phantom in 1936, two years after starting Mandrake) and artist Phil Davis, Chuck Russell is directing the new effort. Fans might best remember his work helming The Mask. Mindfreak star…
The National Cartoonists Society handed out their 61st annual Reuben Awards at their dinner in Orlando, Florida this weekend. The winners of this year’s awards are: NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIP: Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine COMIC BOOK: Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese GAG CARTOONING: Drew Dernavich MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: Steve Brodner BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Mike Lester…
The world has come to this: The Hampton Roads, Virginia Virginian-Pilot is in the mood to drop some comic strips; Mutts is already on probation. Now they’re asking their readers to choose between Rex Morgan MD and Doonesbury. I’ll run that by you again: kill one – Rex Morgan MD, by Woody Wilson and Graham…
Gina Holden will be starring with Eric Johnson in the SciFi Channel’s new Flash Gordon series, debuting this August. No stranger to heroic fantasy projects, the Canadian actress previously appeared in Fantastic Four, The Butterfly Effect 2 and the upcoming Alien vs. Predator 2. Based upon Alex Raymond’s classic newspaper comic strip, SciFi has already…
They’re about to throw the book at Blondie. Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History by strip writer Dean Young (son of Chic Young, Blondie’s real daddy) and Melena Ryzik have penned the definitive tale of the world’s most heavily circulated newspaper comic strip. Even if you find today’s efforts rather mundane, Blondie started out as…
While we’ve been in the throes of office hell, we’ve noticed some changes going on in cartoonist-land that bear passing along: Alison Bechdel has announced that she’s cutting back on production of her popular Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip from biweekly to monthly, in order to work on her new memoir, which she…
Three of the good folks behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson – have done some work in various media as The Film Crew. On July 10th, they’ll be reuniting for a series of D2DVDs distributed by the Shout! Factory label. According to the official MST3K news site Satellite…
One of my favorite bloggers, Jon Swift, stepped out of satirical mode for a post to excoriate Chris Muir, a radical reactionary strip cartoonist who recently drew Hillary Clinton in blackface to mock a recent speech given by the Senator in which she quoted a Negro spiritual by affecting a cadence that didn’t sound quite…
One of my favorite web cartoonists, August Pollak, hits a home run with his Some Guy with a Website strip called "Internet Argument." If you ever want to explain the world of blogs to anyone, you could do much worse than this strip.
Forbidden Plant International leads us to another glowing review of Bryan Talbot’s amazing Alice in Sunderland by Steve Flanagan. The catch is that Flanagan’s review is illustrative, done in the style of the book it’s discussing. Flanagan’s 7-part comic strip review discusses Talbot’s presumed influences for this book, his stylistic choices, perceived structural weakness and…
In case you thought Zippy was kinda normal, King Features will be launching a new strip, My Cage, on May 6th. My Cage is a twist on "MySpace," except that it has a bit of a manga-style influence. Drawn by Melissa DeJesus and written by Ed Power, My Cage is about Norman, a young 20-something…
