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The British Women Cartoonist And Comic Artists Exhibition In London Kicks Off
A wide-ranging selection includes prints from the 18th century, caricatures, joke, editorial and strip cartoons from magazines and newspapers, postcards, comics, zines, graphic novels and digital comics. The Inking Woman showcases the work of 100 British Cartoon and Comic Artists revealing a wealth of women's wit and insight spanning 250 years A wide-ranging selection includes prints[...]
Tomorrow's Private Eye Is A Horror Show For George Osborne
Tomorrow's collection of political and topical cartoons, investigative journalism and mockery, the fortnightly Private Eye magazine, takes George Osborne's recent decision to remove tax credits from the working masses of Great Britain in a rather horrific fashion…   Tomorrow's collection of political and topical cartoons, investigative journalism and mockery, the fortnightly Private Eye magazine, takes George[...]
Iranian Cartoonist Jailed For Over 12 Years For Drawing Politicians As Animals
He explained the cartoons to the Washington Post, "Atena is being punished for something many of us have been doing in Iran: drawing politicians as animals, without naming them Of course, I drew a crocodile and made a name that rhymed with the name of powerful Ayatollah, and caused a national security crisis in 2000[...]
Charlie Hebdo Riven From Within
Months after the killings at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, as the editorial team of cartoonists, writers and editors met, the publisher is
PCH@The Movies With Bill Plympton
Chris Thompson talks to Bill Plympton, creator of Cheatin’ … Following on from my last film-based podcast with noted director/comicker Marjane Satrapi
The Week In Charlie Hebdo – #JeSuisEncoreCharlie
And I just have. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera celebrated their commitment to free speech, by taking screenshots of cartoons inspired by the killings and posted by creators on Facebook, and publishing them in a collection called Je Suis Charlie aimed at reading money for the families, but without asking the cartoonists permission and removing certain credit links[...]
The Comics Industry Responds To Attack On Charlie Hebdo – #JeSuisCharlie (Arrest UPDATE)
— David Hine (@HineDavid) January 7, 2015 lots of Americans probably confused by the "jesus is charlie" hashtag trending this morning #jesuischarlie — Nathan Fairbairn (@nathanfairbairn) January 7, 2015 Hoping that "we will react with more democracy, more openness, more humanity", not with more violence #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/eZgzi4stuV — Lorena Cotza (@LorenaCotza) January 7, 2015 These guys were killed because[...]
Terrorists Murder 12, Including Editor And Cartoonists, At French Cartoon Magazine
Seven more have been injured. Charlie Hebdo is the French equivalent of the UK's Private Eye, publishing cartoons and articles satirising and criticising the most powerful in society and culture Abrasively leftwing, it focuses on attacking extreme right parties, as well as focusing on religious extremism, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim In recent years, they also published a cartoon[...]
We Be Geeks Episode 98: What The Hell Is A Shmoo?
Bleeding Cool welcomes back We Be Geeks, hosting a variety of guests and covering a wide range of geek topics. [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/webegeeks/p/webegeekspc.com/podcasts/Episode_98_What_The_Hell_Is_A_Shmoo.mp3] They say: This week, Mike, Marty and Julz of We Be Geeks along with guest Bryan Montana from the Well Watchers podcast get together to discuss Saturday morning cartoons[...]
Hero History On The Half Shell – New TMNT Book Tracks The Rise Of Turtle Power
The handy nearly pocket sized little tome is turtle-green and tracks the history of the Turtles from their origin in the 1984 indie comic, their rise into a "transmedia phenomenon", their move to cartoons, then back into comics and now, into a Hollywood film. The book takes on a purely "nostalgic" approach and argues for the[...]
Screw's Al Goldstein Passes? (NOT)
It is being reported that Al Goldstein, original publisher of pornographic magazine Screw, died yesterday, in hospital, aged 77. We haven't been able to
The British Political Cartoonist Awards 2014
And I suddenly found myself a little nervous. Why? Well, my biggest influences as a cartoonist when I was a child, weren't comic books, but political cartoons Mostly in The Guardian, which meant Gary Trudeau and Steve Bell I used to copy, trace Bell constantly, and my Margaret Thatcher is, well, his Margaret Thatcher My John[...]
ShiftyLook Moves Into Cartoons – Bravoman, Jim Zub, Scott Kurtz And More
But rather than new webcomics, they are both animated cartoons. The first is Bravoman, with the subtitle Cartoon Of Unequalled Excellence, by Jim Zub and Matt Moylan taking the webcomic and turning into a fully animated series, starring Bravoman, Alpha, Anti-Bravo and Waya and voiced by Animaniacs' Rob Paulsen. The second is Mappy: The Beat by Scott[...]
Mini-Glitch – Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons
The three volume slipcased set of Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, from Fantagraphics with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and Hugh Hefner. Fifty years of single panel, safe for work, gag cartoons from one man, in one massive publication. And 77% off, down from $125 to $28.55 on Amazon.com Remarkable. Jump on, folks Jump on. UPDATE: And it's[...]
James Hudnall And Batton Lash Cartoons Labelled Racist On MSNBC
Batton Lash is the creator of supernatural legal sitcomic Wolff And Byrd, Counselors Of The Macabre, later Supernatural Law. In these strips hosted by BigGovernment, Michelle Obama is caricatured as an obsese aggressive woman, as part of criticism of Michelle's very sensible and pragmatic food policies for Americans, justaposed with the White House's lavish parties. These cartoons[...]