The Opening of the Rijksmuseum

Ten years of renovations have passed and the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam's museum of culture and art, is reopening to the public. This is major!

Google Doodle: André Franquin's "Gaston Lagaffe" Spirou Magazine

Today's Google Doodle: from Spirou Magazine, it's Belgian cartoonist André Franquin's "Gaston Lagaffe" feature.

The Gaston comic strip is about an accident-prone office janitor. It first appeared in Spirou in 1957. While popular in many countries, only Fantagraphics has reprinted it in the US -- and even then it was a few pages in the 1990s.

I don't see this here in the States, but if you use the French, Belgian or Norwegian version of Google, you get to see the above graphic.

More here.

Video: Dedini: A Life of Cartoons

"My name is Eldon Dedini. I'm a cartoonist. I wake up each morning and try and be funny as hell."



Anson Musselman has made a documentary about cartoonist Eldon Dedini titled DEDINI: A LIFE OF CARTOONS. It's about six years old, but well worth sitting down and watching while eating some lunch today.

It's a great piece, with Dedini, alive and well in this film, talking about his art and making cartoons and ... well, see it.

If only Musselman would do this for all the cartoonists in the world!