A couple of weeks ago, I told you that the The Times in Shreveport, LA was holding a “Cartoon Island” contest to see which features should be voted off the funny pages. Candidates for removal included: Mary Worth, Sally Forth, Beetle Bailey, Marvin, Hagar the Horrible, For Better or For Worse, and Curtis. After more […]
Scott Nychay is an award winning cartoonist who was let go from his paper, The Northwest Herald, last October for budgetary reasons. After he was fired, the paper ran television advertisements talking up their awards – mentioning awards that Scott had won when he was working for them. When asked about the ethics of bragging […]
Universal Press and Lulu.com are now offering more titles for their print-on-demand partnership service. In addition to PreTeena, The Fusco Brothers and Clear Blue Water, comic fans can also order A Boatload of Louis by Overboard creator Chip Dunham, and Betty Dubnam’s Mini Page children’s feature.
Dave Astor writes that a new quarterly cartooning publication will be debuting in November entitled, “Stay Tooned!” The magazine is being created by John Read who intends to “combine the best parts of ‘Cartoonist PROfiles’ — telling the stories of professional cartoonists, and ‘The Aspiring Cartoonist’ — information and instruction for cartoonists.”The first edition will […]
An exhibit that opened this week in Fremont Ohio is featuring 100 19-century political cartoons that originally appeared in weekly publications. The exhibit is entitled “The Golden Age of Political Cartooning” and is located at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. It opened Tuesday and runs through May 31st. Thanks to Kelly Croy for the […]
Compu-Toon cartoonist Charles Boyce will conduct a seminar on September 30 in Barrington, Ill according to E&P. No topic was given.
Just got this notice from Universal Press: Lynn Johnston’s popular comic strip “For Better or For Worse” begins a new phase Monday, Sept. 3, as character Michael Patterson looks through a family photo album with his 5-year-old daughter, Meredith. With this strip, Michael begins retelling the Patterson family story by recounting the courtship of his […]
After more than 2 dozen papers temporarily dropped Berkeley Breathed’s Opus this last Sunday, many are questioning if the strip was offensive enough to warrant such action. The strip apparently didn’t offend Sheila Musaji, the editor of The American Muslim. Sheila wrote on her publication’s blog that: As a Muslim I was offended by the […]
Retail creator Norm Feuti writes in to share news that he’s looking for a walk on character for a six day story-line that will run in October. Norm is soliciting “resumes” from readers and he hopes to pick the funniest one. If a photo is provided he’ll try to do a caricature. See his blog […]
Mason Adams is a staff writer for the Roanoke Times and has penned an open letter to For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston. In the letter he relates having grown up with characters Michael and Elizabeth but feels that the story-arc involving Elizabeth and Anthony is “trite.” I’ve invested a lot of time […]
Frazz creator Jef Mallett is going to swim 5 miles for charity on Monday. The swim is part of an annual commemoration of the Mackinac Bridge that spans between Great Lakes Michigan and Huron. The event is also a fund-raiser for youth mentoring. Jef reports over on the Great-Lakes Chapter of the NCS that instead […]
James Kemsley, creator of Ginger Meggs, writes in to alert all Daily Cartoonists that the latest Inkspot has been posted for your download. The Inkspot is a quarterly publication of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association. This edition has a write up about Mort Drucker and the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 07.
I received an email from Joe Wosm, Curator/Founder of the ToonSeum Gallery at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (see my earlier post for more details about this museum). He’s requesting donations of original art to be added to their permanent collection. We would love for you to be a part of our efforts to show […]
The new King Features comic strip Arctic Circle, by Alex Hallatt launched yesterday. If it’s not running in your local paper, you can see samples over on KFS’ web site or through their Daily Ink subscription service. I’ve read through the press kit that contained samples of the first month of strips and highly enjoyed […]
John Kovaleski writes in to alert Bo Nanas fans that a “best of” of his feature will be running on GoComics.com beginning yesterday. GoComics.com will run the last 4+ years of the features. John also mentions that he’s updated bonanas.com to include the last week of the original strip for those who may have missed […]