According to Brian Anderson’s web site, his feature Dog eat Doug has been picked up by the Chicago Tribune who is replacing Calvin and Hobbes.It?s a happy start to 2006 for DeD. The Chicago Tribune replaced Calvin & Hobbes today with DeD!
With a May 19 release date, Michael Fry and T. Lewis’s movie adaptation of their strip ‘Over the Hedge’ will be going up against stiff competition as “The Da Vinci Code” opens that same weekend. “The Da Vinci Code” is starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Regarding opening up against Da Vinci Code:I […]
Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnatti Enquirer and cartoonist for Zits, has started a blog. The “BorgBlog” as it is titled contains images taken from his sketchbook. Ten years into my professional career, a writer friend introduced me to a different concept of an artist?s sketchbook. In her journal she kept the most random […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel becomes the third major newspaper to run with TokyoPop a manga stlye comic strip.They’re the characters in a comic strip – TokyoPop – that will run Sundays starting Jan. 8 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It will alternate between “Peach Fuzz,” running for 24 straight weeks, and “Van Von Hunter,” for […]
I mentioned this earlier back in December, but the NYT has a much lengthier posting (scroll down) about original MAD magazine artwork up on the auction block.The last original artwork from the archives of MAD Magazine is to be auctioned in 2006, starting with a Jan. 21 sale at Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers in Dallas. […]
Dana Summer’s feature “Bound & Gagged” has replaced “Calvin and Hobbes” on the funny pages at the The Jackson Citizen Patriot (Michigan).The newspaper surveyed readers about three comics — Bliss, The Flying McCoys, and Bound & Gagged — and the results were mixed, with no clear winner across age categories. But Bound & Gagged seemed […]
Baby Blues will be on a trial run at the Montreal Gazette. If you like Baby Blues, you’ll probably see it assume a place in our comics lineup, which is already one of the most comprehensive in Canada. At the end of the test period, we’ll put another strip in that bottom right-hand corner of […]
Oh, that we always received such respect. Clearly, the comics are a powerful medium for talking about the human experience. They should be required reading for painters who have forgotten that storytelling matters. While painters have been turning art inside out, manufacturing one style after another, Johnston has worked the old-fashioned way, with good drawing […]