The makers of Angry Birds are launching a cartoon series this weekend, expanding further beyond its highly addictive games in a bid to expand entertainment and merchandising. ...
11:01 AM, Mar 13, 2013
A police complaint was filed against a college student in Kolkata on Saturday for sharing cartoons of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on his Facebook account. "A police complaint has been filed by Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TC students wing) against Ram Nayan Choudhury for circulating cartoons indicting Chief Minister in it," officer of Bidhan Nagar (north) police station Santanu Kar said. "We are investigating the case," Kar added. ...
03:50 PM, Jan 19, 2013
New Delhi: Ram Gopal Varma is one filmmaker who never shied away from being voyeuristic. Varma has made films such as 'Nishabd' and 'Not A Love Story' where the camera was extremely close to the subject, in fact cuts suggested that it might have touched the actors. If reports are to believed then the individualist director is now going to turn the famous cartoon strip 'Savita Bhabhi' into a celluloid...
01:47 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Mumbai: Activists of Ramdas Athawale-led Republican Party of India (RPI) on Thursday pelted stones at the office of Colors TV channel in Mumbai to reiterate their demand for evicting cartoonist Aseem Trivedi from reality show "Bigg Boss 6". "Around 20 activists from our youth wing pelted stones at the office of Colors TV located in suburban Andheri. This is just a reminder to them (the channel) about our demand to...
11:05 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Lonavala: Angry Dalits from different parts of the state marched Thursday morning to the Bigg Boss home demanding eviction of one of its inmates, cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, a Republican Party of India (RPI) member said. About 5,000 marchers, led by RPI chief Ramdas Athavale, have gathered here from Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nashik and other parts, party spokesperson Mayur Borkar said. "Last week, Athavale had raised objections to Colors TV channel...
11:12 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to celebrate the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's comic strip series Little Nemo in Slumberland, Google posted an animated, interesting doodle on its homepage. The doodle is the first of its kind to feature an interactive, motion picture comic strip. But, who was Winsor MacCay? Born on September 26, 1869, Winsor Zenic McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He was quite known for the...
11:29 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Google has recreated the adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland for the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's comic strip's first publication. Regarded as a comic-strip art masterpiece, the weekly strip first appeared on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald as Little Nemo in Slumberland and later in New York American as In the Land of Wonderful Dreams. The interactive and animated Google doodle celebrating the nightly...
01:46 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Friday dropped sedition charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was arrested in September 2012. The Attorney General told the Bombay High Court that the sedition charges against Aseem were a 'knee-jerk reaction'. The AG also said that the state will draft a circular on Section 124 A and this will be presented to the Chief Justice for approval, after which it will be sent out...
12:06 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: What should one expect from Aseem Trivedi on the reality show 'Bigg Boss 6'? "Not entertainment for sure," says the controversial activist and cartoonist, who hopes to use the platform to spread his message on anti-corruption. "I am not an entertainer. I am not going to the show for providing any entertainment," Trivedi, who was jailed on charges of sedition in Mumbai last month and is out on...
12:36 PM, Oct 09, 2012
London: A Ukranian teenager has literally transformed herself into a living cartoon character, complete with miniature waist, coloured hair, and a defined pout. With her enormous, glassy eyes, purple hair and coquettish pose, this girl could have stepped from the scene of a Japanese anime film, Daily Mail reported. Anastasiya Shpagina, 19, who is an animated Japanese cartoons fan, takes style inspiration from the cartoons and computer animations that have...
06:41 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With a live relay of the thoughts that inspire each stroke, Bruce Pettys cartoons looked less of doodle-bombs and more of witty insights. Common good seemed to be where humanity was headed to. At some point, it stopped being progressive and things turned vertical, loading itself with more and more innovations. Now, heres an ingenious interpretation of the state-of-affairs now, he said, recreating an excerpt from his Oscar-winning animation...
12:29 PM, Sep 22, 2012
France is on a high alert and will be temporarily closing its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday as a precautionary measure. This after a satirical magazine published another controversial cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. The first was published in November 2011. ...
09:54 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Paris: A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a film depiction of him as a lecherous fool. The drawings in satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of US and other Western embassies, the killing of the US ambassador to Libya...
09:08 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Author Salman Rushdie, in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, has said that his enemies never had a point, and that they were wrong. The noted author feels that in the Muslim world, there has been an attempt to demonise him, and it has been successful. However, Rushdie pointed that it was not an issue about just the Muslims, saying that the intolerance among the Hindus was...
11:00 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Author Salman Rushdie, in an interview with CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, has said that the idea of the holy war seems to be growing popular amongst the youth in economically disadvantaged economies as they are largely unemployed with no means of a good life and jihad gives them a sense of direction. Rushdie's comments come at a time when anti-US protests have rocked the Middle East, and even some...
07:41 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Kanpur: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, who was arrested on sedition charges, on Sunday said he would continue to draw cartoons that raise issues like corruption, as people in large numbers thronged the railway station here to receive him. Trivedi, who belongs to Shuklaganj in adjoining Unnao district, was received by his parents and hordes of supporters who took him in a procession to his hometown. The cartoonist, arrested on September 8...
10:40 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Cyrus Broacha also talks about Ranbir Kapoor-starrer 'Barfi' and government's decision on diesel, LPG price. ...
08:17 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Former Supreme Court judge and Chairman of the Press Council, Justice Markandey Katju has slammed the politicians and the police for taking action against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi over some of his work that depicted Parliament as a commode and the national emblem with wolves instead of lions. Slamming the Mumbai Police, Justice Katju said that this was wrongful arrest, a crime punishable by law. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's...
07:29 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police have formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police to probe the case of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi and also review the sedition charges slapped on him. "The case has now been handed over to the SIT headed by ACP GT Padwal. Earlier, it was probed by policemen of Bandra Kurla police station where the case was registered. Going by the importance...
05:48 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Cartoonist and anti-corruption activist Aseem Trivedi is out on bail. But the government is yet to drop the sedition charge slapped against him. ...
10:09 PM, Sep 12, 2012
