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‘Cartooning’ archive

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May 17: A fun summer super-hero movie page

Amy Olding of the Lee regional design center in Munster, Ind., sends us this fun summer super-hero movie page from today’s Journal of Sioux City, Iowa. Click for a larger view: Amy tells us: I had my comic loving Significant Other look it over and used his comic collection for inspiration. Q: What font is that? Is that one of [...]

May 2: Victoria, Texas, has some fun with the new summer super-hero movies

Assistant presentation editor Luis Rendon of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, writes to show us what he and the crew of Get Out — the Advocate‘s weekly entertainment tab — did for today’s edition. Luis writes: We originally had planned to focus on a Cinco de Mayo story, but changed course when we realized that Iron Man 3 was coming out this [...]

May 1: Our first ‘Iron Man 3′ features treatment

My pal James A. Molnar of the Toledo (Ohio) Free Press Star writes: I’m excited to share with you our Summer Movies package. Once again, Iron Man is center stage.   I found a cool photo of Iron Man sitting on a couch and thought I’d add popcorn, as if he’s watching a movie. My editor, Michael S. Miller, asked [...]

April 24: Martin Gee’s take on Superman

Here’s master illustrator Martin Gee with his take on Superman. Click for a much larger look. Martin gives quick-hit bios for the Man of Steel and his associates: Snappy journalist Lois Lane… …Daily Planet employees Perry White and Jimmy Olsen… …a nice old couple from Smallville, a number of supervillans and one one certain mild-mannered reporter. Martin drew this for [...]

April 1: A fun cartoon illustration for a baseball preview section

Here’s a fun Opening Day baseball page from the Daily Journal of San Mateo, Calif. Sports reporter and designer Julio Lara tells us: We’ve been super busy with other end-of-the-year features at the Journal that this project really came together at the last minute. I got really lucky, a good friend of mine, April Vallero, is a hell of an [...]

March 22: Step-by-step through a fun, comic book-themed illustration

Illustrator Craig Schaffer of the Reading Eagle‘s Business Weekly won a first place in Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s annual Keystone awards with a fun, comic-book-themed illustration about — what else? — A fun, comic book-themed local company. Craig writes that, for this story, he… I wrote the story, designed the layout, took photographs and created the illustrations. That’s the front cover. [...]

Feb. 6: Inside Gannett’s special sections today honoring Green Bay Packer Donald Driver

The big news in the land of cheese today: Longtime Green Bay Packers receiver Donald Driver is holding his official retirement announcement and celebration today at Lambeau Field. Gannett’s Wisconsin papers celebrated with lots of special coverage of one of the team’s most popular players ever and his time on the frozen tundra. Feast your eyes on the cover of [...]

Jan. 11: Your Friday afternoon belly laugh

For your enjoyment: three recent samples from Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen, who builds web comic strips with (fake) newspaper headlines. Funny stuff, once again. Find the Bad Reporter online archive here.

Jan. 4: Dilbert takes on online news (1)

Funny commentary today in the Dilbert comic strip on the state of online news. Dilbert, of course, is created by Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s online home here.

Dec. 23, 2012: Our first ’2012 in review’ page is one that’ll be hard to beat

It’s hard to imagine a “look back at 2012″ page being more fun than this one, afront today’s Baltimore Sun that features a full-page cartoon by editorial cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as Kal). Click for a much larger look: The Sun‘s head of visuals, Jay Judge, tells us: When we originally talked about this, we thought we would make [...]

Dec. 2, 2012: Comic strip artist profiled on page one

Today’s Tribune of Kokomo, Ind., profiled a local cartoonist on page one today. Sterling Clark is the creator of a new adventure hero strip — you just don’t see many of those any more. Also, he happens to be a man of color, in a field that just doesn’t have enough minority professionals. And what’s more: The star of his [...]

Nov. 28, 2012: Edgy cartoonist protests cancellation by Boston alt-weekly

The sequence of events… 1. Karl Stevens — writer and artist of a graphic novel-like comic strip called Failure that’s run, in various forms, in the alt-weekly Boston Phoenix since 2005 — makes fun of a product sold by one of the paper’s biggest advertisers, Bud Light beer. 2. The paper cancels the strip. As Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein [...]

Oct. 7, 2012: Damn right

Boy, did Garry Trudeau get it right today. Find Doonesbury‘s home on the web here.

Oct. 7, 2012: After he’s fired by the Village Voice, cartoonist Tom Tomorrow melts down on Twitter

Cartoonist Dan Perkins — who works under the pen name Tom Tomorrow — is perhaps the best-known cartoonist in the world of alternative weeklies. His editorial strip, This Modern World, began in 1990 in SF Weekly and was eventually carried by as many as 80 papers — most notably, the Village Voice of New York. His work has also appeared [...]

Oct. 5, 2012: The final word on the first presidential debate

The final word on Debate No. 1 of the 2012 presidential election season is in, courtesy of Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen of the San Francisco Chronicle. Funny stuff, once again. Find the Bad Reporter online archive here. Wait a minute… Correction: The real last word on the first presidential debate is this early Christmas Card, posted this week by [...]

Oct. 2, 2012: An amazing photo and other notable Tuesday A1 presentations

Let’s take a quick look at a few notable front-page presentations… ___________________________________ THERE’S NO WAY THAT’S NOT PHOTOSHOPPED — CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago, Ill. Circulation: 414,590 That’s what I thought the first time I laid eyes on this amazing image by Chris Walker of the Chicago Tribune. But, sure enough, that is not a computer rendering. That is Sunday’s “harvest moon” [...]

Sept. 26, 2012: Your belly laugh for the day

Brilliant satire today from Bad Reporter comic artist Don Asmussen of the San Fransisco Chronicle. Find Don’s online comic archive here. Previous times I’ve blogged about Bad Reporter: Various headlines Katy Perry and Sesame Street Chilean miners and a new logo for al-Qaeda The Tucson shootings Bankruptcy of Borders bookstores Charlie Sheen‘s nutty behavior The Osama bin Laden story Fake [...]

Aug. 25, 2012: Martin Gee’s wonderful graphic take on Spider-Man

There’s just so much to love in this Spider-Man illustration Martin Gee drew recently for the National of Abu Dhabi. Click for an extra, extra huge look. Martin calls it a “dream assignment”: I had way too much fun doing this. Art direction and design was by the National‘s Marin Devine. Marin tells us: The Spider-Man page came about because [...]

Aug. 23, 2012: Dilbert’s take on LinkedIn

I know the feeling. I use LinkedIn nearly every day. I’m just glad LinkedIn‘s recent site redesign didn’t affect the functionality of the site. Like Facebook‘s constant tweaking sometime does. Dilbert, of course, is drawn by Scott Adams. Find Dilbert‘s home on the web here.

July 24, 2012: A final few ‘Dark Knight Rises’ features treatments (1)

Sorry it’s taken me so long to post the last few Batman pages that came in while I was in transit to Kenya… — VIRGINIAN-PILOT Norfolk, Va. Circulation: 142,476 The Pilot waited until Sunday — when it had a new review of the movie written by veteran critic Mal Vincent — before running a huge full-page display in features. Click [...]

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