penelope encourages us to toot our own horns. so, if you’re in los angeles next week, i hope you will check out my work, my wife’s work, and the work of some of our favorite artists at the Panelists 3 show at Giant Robot 2.

Happy Monday, ifriers!
Are you as perplexed and overwhelmed by the thought of your own marketing materials as I often am? Do you find it difficult to describe who you are and everything you do on a 2″ x 3.5″ double-sided card?
It is a problem I have and it’s a problem I find common amongst other [...]

As a comics aficionado and an art teacher myself, i frequently tip my hat to James Sturm. The comic book artist, Xerix award winner, and cofounder of the Stranger is also the cofounder and director of The Center for Cartoon Studies. The school, located in White River Junction, Vermont is the only two year cartooning [...]

sam hiti’s Fist-A-Cuffs is a blog where illustrated luchadors fight to the death. the tag-team battles have already begun. submit your own combatants and vote on the fist fights in progress!
thanks to paul pope for the link!

is there ANYTHING more punk rock than playing minesweeper on the boss’s dime?
if you were about to say “no,” Gorillaz.com will blow your brains. the band deserves our respect for shattering the glass ceiling that cartoons have struggled against since the days of steamboat mickey. (who said an animated-american would never succeed on Mtv?) the [...]

it’s just a matter of time before laura park’s comics are collected into a beautifully bound book. until they are, i spend hours browsing her drawings on flickr and longing ~ heartsick, really ~ to hold them in my hands. thanks to the magic of the internet, readers can flip through her moleskin and even [...]

http://www.cartoonbrewfilms.com is here! http://www.cartoonbrewfilms.com is here! Oh boy! I’ve been waiting for this url to go live ever since I caught glimpse of it in the Cartoon Modern book by Amid Amidi. Cartoon Brew Films is a collection of hand-picked world-class animated shorts new and vintage. They can be bought and downloaded for very [...]