Fact checking New Yorker cartoonsThe New Yorker is famous for fact checking and its quirky cartoons. But are cartoons fact checked? Absolutely, says cartoon editor Robert Mankoff.
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Daily Proposition: Read First Dog on the Moon’s ebook!
Most days, Daily Proposition sends you off gallivanting into the world at large, to see operas and make Yiddish grandmother soups. But today, the suggestion is closer to home!
Get out your green crayons: how to draw Bob Brown
SMH cartoonist Rocco Fazzari explains the art behind sketching Greens leader Bob Brown: keep your brush strokes left.
The Oatmeal: making big bucks off scheming kitties
Matthew Inman is the man behind The Oatmeal hilarity. How does a 20-something web designer tap into the zeitgeist without politics or religion but grammar and dinosaurs?
The history of the WSJ hedcut
The Wall Street Journal takes you through the history and evolution of its iconic hedcut drawings. Each is still hand-drawn by an army of artists and can take up to five hours to complete.
First Dog on the Moon draws the Western Bulldogs’ NAB Cup win
Crikey cartoonist and Doggies tragic First Dog on the Moon has drawn the Bulldogs’ emphatic victory over St Kilda in Saturday night’s NAB Cup grand final.
Video of the Day: A is for Atom
A 1950s cartoon about atomic energy, fished from the archives of Bovine University. [via BoingBoing]
Asterix turns 50
French comic star Asterix has been battling the Roman Empire for 50 years now, and despite hitting middle age, the pint-sized Gaulish warrior, his friend Obelix and dog Dogmatix are about to embark on their 43th adventure.
Film review: Astro Boy: new-fangled retro fun
Astro Boy defies the unbelievably low standards set by the cinematic forays of his retro toon colleagues in this new-fangled big screen reboot, says Luke Buckmaster.
Design the next Simpsons character
Oh, how epically wrong this could go: The Simpsons is holding a contest for fans to create a new character for the show. Can anyone say ‘Cousin Oliver’ (or perhaps ‘Poochie’)?
The Simpsons laid bare
John Ortved wrote an unauthorised history of The Simpson, dishing the dirt on all the goings-on behind the scenes of America’s favourite family. The show’s creators weren’t happy. He tells the whole sordid tale.
Marge Simpson: Playboy bunny
The next cover-star of Playboy magazine will be… Marge Simpson? Yup, the cover will feature TV’s favourite cartoon mum in the buff. Kiss your childhood goodbye.
Spiderman, Captain America… Ravana the 10-headed demon king?
Fresh from acquiring Marvel Comics, Disney is now eyeing off the lucrative market for Indian comic books and cartoons. Based on ancient Hindu mythology, the stories are apparently big business with the world’s 900-odd million Hindus.
The A-B-C of parent advertising: Always Bright Colours
Advertising aimed at parents revolves primarily around cutesy cartoon images, like Winnie the Pooh on nappies. Why do marketers assume that having a child makes parents become infantile too?
Simpsons producer: “all other animated shows ever are crap”
“I say this with the greatest respect, but all other animated shows ever are crap!” says executive producer of The Simpsons, David Mirkin, who may want to watch from about season 10 onwards before casting too many stones.
“No end in sight” for The Simpsons
Television’s longest-running show is set to run even longer, with creator Matt Groening saying there’s “no end in sight” for the cartoon that has already racked up 20 seasons and 441 episodes.
Exiled Iranian cartoonist Nik Kowsar is nuts
Iranian-born political cartoonist Nik Kowsar has been jailed and sent death threats for his refusal to cease publishing his cartoon criticisms of the Iranian leadership. “As a cartoonist in Iran, you should be nuts,” he tells the Washington Post,/em>. “I was nuts.”
News Corp forms diversity council after chimp cartoon
News Corp will form an external “diversity council” after public outrage over a New York Post cartoon that appeared to liken Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
Futurama brought back from the dead
Cult Matt Groening cartoon Futurama is being brought back to the small screen, with the first new TV episodes since 2003.
UK MP expenses scandal: now in cartoon form
Guardian cartoonist Patrick Blower livedraws the British MP expenses controversy.
Crikey Says: An appalling lapse in taste…
Meanwhile on the opinion pages of The Australian…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turn 25, plan new movie
Wouldya believe it — those gnarly, product-placed, mutant, crime fighting terrapins are a quarter of a century old. Time for another bad CGI movie!
Pictures of The Simpsons having it off isn’t a threat to society
Do the images of fictional cartoon characters who only resemble real life humans in a tenuous way represent a threat to society? Asks Greg Barns.
