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Profiled: Bob Harvey talks Bill Griffiths
Over at The Comics Journal Bob Harvey looks at Bill Griffith’s 25 years of doing Zippy the Pinhead. “After a year of appearing daily in a large American newspaper,” Griffith said, “I thought that was as weird as things were going to get for me. Little did I know they were going to get even [...]
Posted on: Sep 1, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Brian McFadden debuts as New York Times cartoonist
As announced last week, Brian McFadden was tapped to be the featured regular cartoonist for the rework of the New York Times’ Week in Review. His first comic was entitled “The State of Unemployment” and appeared yesterday. Michael Cavna interviewed Brian about the new arrangement: “I’ve been given a lot of leeway,” says McFadden, whose [...]
Posted on: Jun 27, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 4 Comments
SPJ awards dominated by alternative cartoonists
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists. Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation. Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 6 Comments
Village Voice releases The Comics Issue
This week’s edition of The Village Voice is their “The Comics Issue” containing 30 contributing artists to supplement the entire issue with comic frames, graphics and unique images. The issue focuses on the current state of cartooning. Ward Sutton did the cover and Roy Edroso writes the article “If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 9 Comments
Lloyd Dangle talks about why he’s retiring Toubletown
Daryl Cagle has posted an interview with Toubletown creator Lloyd Dangle about his recent decision to retire his feature. Why are you ending “Troubletown” now, after 22 years? I have changed over 22 years, and the thrill is gone. Having to read so much news and opinion to stay on top of events is a [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom Tomorrow to become comics editor for Daily Kos
Dan Perkins, best known as Tom Tomorrow, has announced that his strip is leaving Salon.com as of today where it has run since the mid-90s to run his work on the Daily Kos and also serve as that site’s Comic Editor. He notes that as the newspaper industry contracts, there hasn’t been an inverse expansion [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Festival of Cartoon Art notes: Jen Sorenson
Jen Sorenson is up now speaking about the “lighter side of impending doom” Jen Sorenson: showing a few of her cartoons. You can see Jen’s work here: http://bit.ly/9ZRvKm According to Jen Sorenson, if you want a cartoon to go viral, work in the topic of “iphone,” “palin,” or “Obama” Should alt weekly cartoons be considered [...]
Posted on: Oct 16, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Festival of Cartoon Art, Comments: 2 Comments
Mr. Media interviews Denis Kitchen
Bob Andelman, AKA Mr. Media has an excellent interview with Denis Kitchen. Denis is an underground cartoonist, publisher, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. This is a rare creative animal who has thrived in roles both creative and corporate, even if he met the latter challenge kicking and screaming all the way [...]
Posted on: Aug 30, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Cartoons, Comic history, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom the Dancing Bug now on Boing Boing
Proving the cliche “where one door closes – another one opens” Ruben Bolling has announced that his comic Tom the Dancing Bug will now appear on Boing Boing less than a month after being dropped from Salon.com. Boing Boing is a popular aggregator of news and entertainment the describes itself as, “Media Culture Brainwash for [...]
Posted on: Apr 22, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Jen Sorensen to receive award for social justice journalism
Congrats to Jen Sorenson, creator of Slowpoke comic strip. She’s been named as the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Additionally, she is the first woman to receive the Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award from Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies. The Aronson award honors “journalism that [...]
Posted on: Apr 13, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Awards, Comments: 8 Comments
Stephanie McMillan graphic novel becomes webcomic
Seven Stories Press has begun running a webcomic version of Stephanie McMillan’s graphic novel “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial” (co-created with Derrick Jensen). The comic updates Tuesdays and Thursdays in full color. A French version of the printed book is also available. As an aside, Stephanie [...]
Posted on: Feb 16, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Graphic Novels, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Mr. Fish laid off from Village Voice/LA Weekly
Mr. Fish (AKA Dwayne Booth), the alternative cartoonist for the Village Voice and LA Weekly has been let go from his position in a “cost-cutting” measure. He wrote Daryl Cagle a letter of explanation which has been posted on cagle.com. Here’s the salient part: Haven’t we learned anything from the New Coke fiasco from the [...]
Posted on: Jan 19, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Newspaper industry, Comments: 2 Comments
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