Archives for March, 2006
Rumors of more comic strip based movies in the works
Over on Movies Online is a post about how creatively bankrupt Hollywood has become and the new trend for movie markers is to take comic strips and make them into movies. That’s probably not very revealing – it’s happened several times before, but at the end of the article the writer lists some of the [...]
Posted on: Mar 31, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
More editorial cartoonist doing caption contests
A while ago, I posted a story on Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer starting a weekly cartoon caption contest. When I subscribed to my local paper here in Utah, I noticed that Cal Grohndal (Standard Examiner) was doing one too. Now I see Mike Peter’s does one for his paper the Dayton Daily News. [...]
Posted on: Mar 31, 2006, Section: Contests, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 6 Comments
Scott Adams shares what it’s like as a cartoonist to students
Scott Adams, who usually charges $30-50k to speak, sat down with high school students to give them the inside scoop into the life of a syndicated cartoonist. The event was part of a larger program to introduce kids to a variety of professions. For Adams it wasn’t just a way of giving back to the [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
Santa Cruz Sentinel picks up Get Fuzzy, Mutts
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has made a couple of additions to their funny pages. After a reader poll, they’ve picked up “Get Fuzzy” and “Mutts.” Our popular comics page has some new faces as well. Some weeks ago, we ran a reader poll on what you wanted, and as a result, we’re adding two comic [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Rube Goldberg compitition is this weekend
The 19th annual Rube Goldberg competition is set for this weekend. The competition pays homage to late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing extremely complex machines that performed very simple tasks. This year’s challenge is to build a mechanism that will individually cut or shred five sheets of 20-pound, 8-by-11-inch paper. About eight university [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Off topic, Comments: 0 Comments
Jef Mallett to speak at and participate in Triathlon
Jef Mallett, creator of “Frazz” will be speaking to participants of the Musselman Triathlon – which Jef will compete in the next day. The event happens on July 15th and 16th. Mallett is an avid age-group triathlete and often includes bike racing and triathlon as themes in his work. He will entertain athletes as the [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 4 Comments
Three potential bidders to buy McClatchy 12
The 12 newspapers that McClatchy plans to sell to finance the purchase of Knight Ridder are a bit closer to knowing who their next bosses may be. The LA Times reports that there are three potential bidders: Yucaipa Cos (a Los Angeles investment firm), MediaNews Group Inc, and Gannett Co. McClatchy Co.’s planned sale of [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Newspaper industry, Comments: 1 Comment
Boston Globe to cut more jobs?
There is a possibility that the Boston Globe may cut additional staff jobs after its revenue dropped 12 percent last month. Last year the Globe let go of 130 of its staff. According to sources, he told department heads that no decisions have been made yet on whether there will be staff reductions. He specifically [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2006, Section: Editorial cartooning, Newspaper industry, Comments: 0 Comments
Chip Bok signing books in Hudson OH
If your a Chip Bok fan and live near Hudson Ohio, head over to the Learned Owl next Friday (April 7) around 6:00 pm to have your book signed. I’ll be signing books at the Learned Owl in Hudson, Ohio on Friday April 7 at 6:00pm.
Posted on: Mar 29, 2006, Section: Books, Editorial cartooning, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
Four new features in St. Petersburg posted
I mentioned earlier that the St. Petersburg Times was going to try out four new features during the Boondock hiatus. They’ve now named names and here they are: Dog eat Doug (“We’re talking cute, but with a Calvin and Hobbesian twist to the jokes”), Watch your head (“You can like it or you can like [...]
Posted on: Mar 29, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Canadian National Newspaper Award finalists announced
This is old news, but I’m just now getting to it. The 2005 National Newspaper Awards finalists have been announced for the best editorial cartoonist. The nominees are: Bruce MacKinnon of the Chronicle Herald; Serge Chapleau of the La Presse in Montreal and Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail. All three have been nominated [...]
Posted on: Mar 29, 2006, Section: Awards, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 0 Comments
Baldo creators getting involved in immigration protests
Baldo creators Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos have posted requests on their website asking for students to send in their responses to the nationwide student walk out over immigration that have been on the news of late. They hope to post some of those responses on their site and “maybe even in an upcoming comic!” [...]
Posted on: Mar 29, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
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