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September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in News
A small, quiet, rural town in the middle of Missouri is not the place one might expect to find a group of well known syndicated comic strip cartoonists (and one lowly MAD artist) gathered for a speaking engagement, but that’s just what happens every year around this time in Marceline, MO. Well, the lowly MAD artist doesn’t show up every year, but there is always a number of cartooning luminaries that speak, participate and in share their time and talents with attendees of the Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest. Marceline might be the kind of sleepy little town that you ordinarily barely slow down through on… READ MORE
September 11th, 2008 | Posted in News
Used with permission Yes. It’s that time again. The Orphan Works bill is still on the table and still being pushed by the deep pockets and lobby efforts of Google, FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP: With Congress back in session this week, Orphan Works rumors are back too. According to some sources, deals have been made to pass the bills quickly. According to others, the bills have stalled for this session. Here’s what we know, independent of conflicting sources: SEPT 6: OpenCongress Lists “8 Controversial Bills That Congress Still May Pass” In Congress Gossip, by Donny Shaw, the article notes that the Orphan Works Bills “have… READ MORE
September 1st, 2008 | Posted in News
Last week I wrote about the Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest event in Marceline, MO and how my chapter of the National Cartoonists Society is going to have our fall meeting at the event. Since I wrote that and began organizing our chapter’s meeting I have been tapped by the Toonfest organizers to both emcee the speaker’s presentations on both Friday (Student Day) and Saturday as well as do my own speaking presentation on both days. Looks like I just went from a spectator to a spectacle for the weekend event. Here is a link to the speaker lineup for the event, and here is the… READ MORE
August 26th, 2008 | Posted in News
Regular blog reader Chip O’Brien sent me a link yesterday to this article about how “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. disses “The Dark Knight” in this article on Moviehole.net. “My whole thing is that I saw ‘The Dark Knight’. I feel like I’m dumb because I feel like I don’t get how many things that are so smart. It’s like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I’m like, ‘That’s not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.’ I loved ‘The Prestige’ but didn’t understand ‘The Dark Knight’. Didn’t get it, still can’t tell you what happened in… READ MORE
August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in News
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the availablility for purchase of the sculpted Sherlock Holmes pen that was based on my illustrations of Holmes for the audible collection of the complete Sir Arthur Conan Doyle collection One Voice Chronological: The Complete Holmes Canon. That announcement was a bit premature, as the web page meant to enable buyers to purchase the pen was having some trouble. Well, that is all corrected and the new ordering page is up, running and seems to work great on either a PC or a Mac, at least on my Mac using FireFox. While you are at it, visit… READ MORE
August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in News
One of my favorite comic strips is “Mother Goose and Grimm” drawn by the incomparable Mike Peters. Always funny, great artwork… one of the best done strips ever, IMO. Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum, a part of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh that exhibits cartoon art shows and events, will be opening a “Mother Goose and Grimm” show in October: From Joe Woos and The ToonSeum: Opening Friday October 17th– Mother Goose and Grimm: the Art of Mike Peters. Meet the creator Mike Peters and Grimmy on Saturday October 18th at the Children’s Museum. Free smiley cookies to the first 150 guests thanks to Eat N Park! October… READ MORE
August 16th, 2008 | Posted in News
Back in 2005 I was a guest speaker, along with cartoonists Gary and Glenn McCoy (The Flying McCoys, etc.), Jim Borgman (Zits, editorial cartoons) and Tom Wilson Jr. (Ziggy), animation critic Charles Solomon and Disney Imagineer Vice-President Tony Bancroft in a small town called Marceline, MO at an event called the Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest. Since Missouri is part of the large geographical area covered by our chapter of the National Cartoonist Society, the North Central Chapter, many of our chapter members have taken an interest in Toonfest and have helped organize and plan parts of the event. I haven’t been able to make it… READ MORE
August 12th, 2008 | Posted in News
I spent the weekend before last in St. Louis checking up on my Six Flags and Union Station caricature artists. On my way to the airport I got the opportunity to stop in to the MAD Art exhibit at the St. Louis Artist’s Guild Gallery with my friend, caricaturist and illustrator Jim Batts and his friend, illustrator Rick Bernal. Sadly I had only about an hour to see the show, which wasn’t nearly enough time. The artwork on display is part of the personal collection of St. Louis artist Bob Shay, who credits MAD as a big part of what started him on the path… READ MORE
