Cartoons

Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab

2013-05-09 14:51:00

The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...

'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success

2013-05-06 05:00:00

The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...

Seething fury of 'Angry Little Girls' coming to your TV

2013-04-25 07:00:00

Yeah, that's her, staring you down, eyes blazing, cursing under her breath. She's a piece of work with zigzag black bangs, a blood-red shirt and hands firmly planted on hips. When the guy who's in love with her inches forward, telling her, "I can't live...

An interview with Stephan Pastis: Writing funny books for kids

2013-04-17 13:48:00

Stephan Pastis, the former lawyer-turned-cartoonist behind the daily comic strip “Pearls before Swine,” (which runs in 650 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times) recently made his first foray into long-form chapter books with “...

Jonathan Winters dies at 87; comic genius of improvisation

2013-04-13 00:00:00

Comic great Jonathan Winters was struggling to make a name for himself in the early 1950s when a man at the nightclub where he was performing offered some life-changing advice. Winters had a talent for channeling the voices of celebrities like Gary...

Jason Bateman gives Ernest Borgnine's estate a new identity

2013-02-23 12:00:00

Actor Jason Bateman and his wife, actress Amanda Anka, are dropping anchor in the Beverly Crest area with the purchase of the estate of Ernest Borgnine for $3 million. The gated country English compound sits on a half-acre knoll. The 6,148-square-foot...

Classic Hollywood: On the case of 'Roger Rabbit'

2013-03-31 18:15:00

Disney's frenetic live-action/animated comedy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, earning more than $156 million. The comedy won three Academy Awards and transformed its lead, British actor Bob Hoskins, into a bona fide...

If only there were an Academy Award for best stunt hand

2013-02-21 01:37:00

In one episode of "Seinfeld," hapless George Costanza was hired as a stunt hand for a movie. Predictably, things went awry and poor George's hand never made a cinematic debut. In the days leading up to the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, my own hand fared...

Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed lists his home in Santa Barbara at $4.95 million

2013-02-06 00:00:00

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed has listed his mountainside retreat in Santa Barbara for $4.95 million. The 25-acre ocean-view estate, which includes a swimming pool, fruit trees and a guesthouse, was designed as a creative...

Keiji Nakazawa dies at 73; Japanese artist of comic 'Barefoot Gen'

2013-01-06 12:23:00

Images of a city smoldering and a river clogged with pale, radioactive cadavers never left Keiji Nakazawa's mind. The Japanese manga, or comic-book, artist used those images and other memories of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, to create...

New Western governor sets his sights on climate change solutions

2013-01-18 05:00:00

When we were classmates at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Jay Inslee was quarterback of the football team and a key player on the state champion basketball squad. I was a fledgling cartoonist and editorial writer on the student newspaper. On Wednesday...

KAWS is latest artist to join Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

2012-11-26 07:00:00

This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the usual gallery of cartoon characters inflated to monstrous sizes bobbing alongside garish floats. But the parade also featured a bit of cultural subversion -- albeit of the family-friendly variety --...

, came into play at her July trial on charges of punching a fan in the face. Winehouse said she was only 5-foot-3 -- too short to lay a serious blow on her 5-foot-7 accuser -- and argued that her beehive made her seem taller. She was acquitted.

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Half-finished paintings line the walls of Haj Kadour's room in one of two apartments he shares with his elderly mother and brother's family in Reyhanli, Turkey.

2013-03-21 00:00:00

Tribune cartoonist Scott Stantis brings out the monster trucks for his weekly caption contest. Head to www.chicagotribune.com/stantis to enter your caption for a chance to win a signed print of this cartoon, and then email it to garrymeier@wgnradio.com for a chance at some of Garry's legendary swag.

2012-07-25 11:35:45