Comments on: News Briefs for April 9, 2009 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/04/09/news-briefs-for-april-9-2009/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Darryl Heine http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/04/09/news-briefs-for-april-9-2009/#comment-81738 Darryl Heine Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:54:08 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4390#comment-81738 What comics does the Geneva, Illinois Chronicle newspaper run? What comics does the Geneva, Illinois Chronicle newspaper run?

]]> By: Phil Tography http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/04/09/news-briefs-for-april-9-2009/#comment-81602 Phil Tography Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:08:50 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4390#comment-81602 As much as I love The Phantom, comic strip, I don't think I'll care much for the "rebooting" of the character for the SCI-FI mini series. I have seen the prototype of the suit the Phantom will be wearing. Its not pretty, looks more like the current Batman movie suits. I know you can't copy a 2D costume into a 3D character without some compromises. As much as I love The Phantom, comic strip, I don’t think I’ll care much for the “rebooting” of the character for the SCI-FI mini series. I have seen the prototype of the suit the Phantom will be wearing. Its not pretty, looks more like the current Batman movie suits. I know you can’t copy a 2D costume into a 3D character without some compromises.

]]> By: Stacy Curtis http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/04/09/news-briefs-for-april-9-2009/#comment-81554 Stacy Curtis Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:09:50 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4390#comment-81554 I think it's funny the editor of The Chronicle referred to a cartoonist who hasn't drawn a comic strip in nearly 15 years on the shrinking size of comics in today's newspapers. How about talking to someone whose comic has actually gone through today's cost-cutting measures taken by newspapers to take two pages of comics and shrink them onto one page or print the Sunday comics section in a tabloid format? I'll give them credit for making their comics larger and doing some creative manuvering to not drop Family Circus by moving it into another part of the paper. Believe me, there would have been hell to pay in Kane County if Born Loser and Family Circus would have been permanently dropped. I think it’s funny the editor of The Chronicle referred to a cartoonist who hasn’t drawn a comic strip in nearly 15 years on the shrinking size of comics in today’s newspapers.

How about talking to someone whose comic has actually gone through today’s cost-cutting measures taken by newspapers to take two pages of comics and shrink them onto one page or print the Sunday comics section in a tabloid format?

I’ll give them credit for making their comics larger and doing some creative manuvering to not drop Family Circus by moving it into another part of the paper.

Believe me, there would have been hell to pay in Kane County if Born Loser and Family Circus would have been permanently dropped.

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