Andrew Feinstein, co-creator of Girls and Sports was recently interviewed by Expanded Books regarding the release of his first book, Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating & Relationship Playbook. You can see the interview on YouTube.
Not sure I missed this story, but the Pittsburg Post-Gazette has posted their results from a comic survey and Bill Amend’s Foxtrot is king of their comics page beating out Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse by one vote. Other’s in the top 10 include: Dilbert, Mother Goose and Grimm, Zits, Bizarro, Peanuts Classic, […]
The Commercial Dispatch has added Mark Tatulli’s Lio, Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe and Phil Frank and Joe Troise’s The Elderberries to their line up. Outgoing strips include The Boondocks, Agnes and Peanuts. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has added Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s Baby Blues to replace The Boondocks.
Joshua Fruhlinger, AKA the Comics Curmudgeon, wrote an op-ed piece for the LA Times about how the comic strip fan community is still vibrant, but increasingly not interested in the reading the comics from a newspaper. He says: The only place you won’t find this kind of enthusiasm is in the newspaper comics pages. Rather […]
Jules Feiffer is in Arizona this week. Today he speaks at Arizona State University at 4 p.m. to give a presentation called “A Discussion with Feiffer: The Art of Social Commentary on Stage, Film and Paper.” The event is free and open to the public. The Arizona Republic also profiled Jules’ visit.