The Fayetteville Observer is trying to find a suitable replacement for Doug Marlette’s Kudzu, and like most paper’s they offered a poll. The results indicate there is a generational shift happening in the comic pages today. Instead rolling out the poll results, they interviewed their readers, an associate professor, and a syndication president. According to […]
The L.A. Times has an extensive profile on Aaron McGruder and his work on the second season of the television version of The Boondocks. Aaron talks about the difficulties of putting out the comic while being thrown into making an animated television show, what to expect in season two that starts next week, more use […]
Editor and Publisher reports that Phil Frank has received, posthumously, the first Herb Caen lifetime achievement award by the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club. The award is named after Herb Caen, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist who died in 1997.
For the second time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has invited readers to submit editorial cartoons for the vacationing Mike Luckovich. Main themes this year included Larry Craig, resignations in the Bush administration, the war on Iraq and Michael Vick.The cartoons were collected and voted on for the chance to receive an autographed cartoon original by Mike. […]
Tony Carrillo’s’, F Minus has been named “Best Syndicated Comic Strip” by Phoenix New Times. They also have a funny Q and A with Tony. The report that F Minus is in 125 newspapers across the country.
Online editorial cartoonists duo John Cox and Allen Forkum have decided to end their online cartoons. Allen wrote and John drew the cartoons, but it was Allen who decided that he had to refocus his energies.From their blog: For better or worse, I’ve always had to approach the editorial cartoon work as a “part time” […]
E&P notes that The International Comic Arts will be at the Library of Congress this year (Oct. 18-20). Scheduled speakers include Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher and Robert Russell, founder of the Cartoonists Rights Network International.
Matt Janz’ Single and Looking is in trial mode over at the Winston-Salem Journal. The announcement comes with an article explaining Matt’s recent decision to change the title of his feature, which used be called “Out of the Gene Pool.”
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) have published a special limited-edition book celebrating the organization and its cartoonists. The book contains: The complete history of the worldâ??s oldest and largest organization for professional editorial cartoonists, from its founding to the rise of the internet. Reports on major speakers, panels, controversies and practical jokes at […]
Jimmy Margulies won this year’s “Party Toons” – an editorial cartoonist contest sponsored by Drew Rougier-Chapman, the producer of Party Toons. Party Toons is a half-hour weekly political show built around editorial cartoons and political comedy.Mike Keefe of the Denver Post took second place, with a three-way tie between Justin Bilicki, Sage Stossel and Karl […]
Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander was on NPR yesterday talking about her new book called “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial.” The book is a humorous look at getting older. The book was published by Broadway book.From the description of the book: Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain […]
La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz will be speaking and signing books at the 5th Annual Houston Latino Book & Family Festival in Houston on Saturday and Sunday.On Saturday he’ll field questions from other attendees regarding his comic feature and then on Sunday he’ll panel a discussion entitled, “How to Be a World-Famous Cartoonist” where he’ll […]
Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac has started blogging. The blog features sketches and an interesting story of a dinner with syndicate executives. It was only started Monday, so we’ll see where it goes.
Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about all his feature, his book and his move to Maine. Was it hard to sell the syndicate on a strip without characters or themes, just focusing entirely on the funny? At the time, yes. I created this during a severe recession […]
Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the PinHead will be a featured speaker at this year’s Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland on Oct. 12 and 13. Bill “will deliver a heavily illustrated slideshow talk about his life and work to date.” SPX will also present its 11th annual Ignatz award for outstanding achievement in comics […]