Posted on: November 20, 2006

Brian Crane, creator of Pickles, will be speaking at Western Nevada Community College on December 1st where he will speak about his comic strip and from whence he gets his inspiration.

From E&P is news that Tom Batiuk has won the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Hall of Fame Award for using his Funky Winkerbean character, Lisa’s, battle with cancer. The story of Lisa’s battle with cancer will run through next October.

E&P is reporting that United Media has sent out an advisory to clients of Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine that the December 2nd strip will use the term “bite me.” Those not wanting to run the strip will be given a rerun strip if they contact the syndicate.

Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup, will be one of six judges for the Talbot’s Women Scholarship Fund. The fund gives $100,000 in scholarships to 55 women between their late 20’s to early 60’s who are working toward their bachelor’s or associates degree. Other judges include Naomi Judd, S. Epatha Merkerson, Tracy Austin and Broadway […]

Universal Press has announced the Phil Dunlap’s Ink Pen has been optioned to be developed into an animated film. Phil’s cartoon is barely a year old and is now in 50 newspapers. The movie would be produced by Jason Korrnick who is the executive producer of the upcoming movie “Next” staring Nicholas Cage and Julianne […]

According to E&P, Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price took two weeks off last September for her marriage and honeymoon and asked Mary Lawton to take over on the strip for a week. Her work is running in papers this week.

Matt Davies, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist with The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y, has created his first animated editorial cartoon.

Adrian Raeside’s The Other Coast took a swipe at a few legacy strips in last Wednesday’s comic. The gag involved the character Vicky mentioning how great it would be to meet the cartoonist behind Mary Worth, Blondie and Dick Tracy in-which the character Toulouse would inform her that the original creators were all dead. Vicky […]

Here’s your comic history trivia question of the day: When was the first time that Lucy Van Pelt held a football for Charlie Brown? Answer: November 16, 1952. Peanuts appeared in print in October of 1950.I’ve lost the attribution to that little factoid, so maybe call the Schulz museum if you have one lifeline left, […]

Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle has posted another animated cartoon.

Many bloggers posting editorial cartoons on their blogs without approval from the cartoonist are being told to stop or risk legal action according to Bob Geiger a blogger who was recently contacted by several cartoonists for his weekly posting of editorial cartoons. He wrote:I have bad news and I have good news. First the bad: […]

On Wednesday, Girls & Sports creators Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus be holding a launch party to celebrate the release of their first book “Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook.” The party includes a reading, signing and reception at the Borders Bookstore in Westwood CA. They do […]

Slightly off-topic, but newsworthy: Matt Groening’s The Simpsons will hit the silver screen on July 27. You can see The Simpson’s Movie (in 2-D) trailer on Apple’s trailer site. Trailer review: Loved it. Laughed out loud. There are few shows I get out the hustle to see on opening night, but this will be one […]

Jules Feiffer and his wife have come out with a new book (he illustrated it, his wife wrote it), called The Long Chalkboard and Other Stories. The book contains three stories.Carl Hays of the American Library Association wrote this review of the book on Amazon.com:Renowned cartoonist and children’s book author Feiffer shares billing with his […]

Mike Rhode who writes the ComicsDC blog has posted photos of the opening of the Cartoon America exhibit at the Library of Congress. He has photos of Jules Feiffer, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, Ann Telnaes, and Brian Walker.