IT IS ONE OF the most mesmerizing crowd-funding videos I’ve ever seen. Then again, Vincent van Gogh painted some of the most mesmerizing artworks ever seen. With just hours to go, a Kickstarter campaign for a feature titled “Loving Vincent” — a cinematic tribute that is part love letter, part murder mystery — has hit […]
WITH THE OSCARS’ red carpet rolled up for another season, it’s apparently time for cartoon-based characters to again rule the box office. The “300″ franchise (based on comics by Frank Miller) and the CGI-animated “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (based on characters, of course, from the Rocky and Bullwinkle series of the ’60s) dominated this […]
STAN LEE wrote in 2010, while helping to judge a Washington Post comics contest: “I’m guessing that the alligator will be the mainstay of the strip. It should be, because that’s what makes the strip unique.” The Marvel mastermind was talking about “Hoxwinder Hall,” a comic that Arlington native Daniel Boris had dusted off from […]
GOTHAM MAY BE known as a tough town. Hollywood has proved to be even tougher. Fortunately, cinema’s current Spider-Man can play the hero in real life, too. As you’ll recall, “Batkid” — aka leukemia survivor Miles Scott — charmed a city and warmed a nation last November when the 5-year-old spent a day running […]
“I love that one open-ended Doodle 4 Google theme can inspire so many thousands of drastically different and wild entries,” Google artist and judge Sophie Diao tells The Post. AS PART OF its ongoing arts outreach to students, Google is offering kids a “virtual field trip” today to its Bay Area headquarters. […]
A HIGH-WATER MARK? PaperFilms seeks crowdfunding for its latest project. By David Betancourt THE OCEANS OF the world have risen, most of the planet has been destroyed and the only place on Earth to survive the aquatic doom is the Mile High City. That’s the story behind the original, Kickstarter-funded graphic novel “Denver,” a […]
THE HERBLOCK PRIZE continues to make history. On Tuesday, the Herb Block Foundation announced that Jen Sorensen has become the first woman to win the award, which celebrates excellence in editorial cartooning. “Winning the Herblock is one of the finest moments in a political cartoonist’s life,” Sorensen tells The Post. “Being the first woman to […]
The National Cartoonists Society has named its finalists for its esteemed Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year -- and at least half the nominees say they were surprised.
SOME OSCARS PREDICTIONS can be made with significantly more confidence. Such as: Chances are good that host Ellen DeGeneres will make a joke or three tonight about interacting with the disembodied voice of a sultry OS (a la “Her”); about who really is the “captain” of the Academy Awards (Ellen’s talking to you, nominee Barkhad […]
LEE MENDELSON might be best known for working with Charlie Brown and his dog, but the Emmy-winning producer also had great success working with a same-named camera hound (Charley) — as well as that canine’s far more camera-shy owner. “I had the great honor of working with my favorite American writer, John Steinbeck, on two […]
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