Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen has won the Best of the West award for editorial cartooning. The award is sponsored by First Amendment Funding – an Arizona non-profit group with an aim to promote freedom of information. Also placing second in this award is Dave Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and third place goes to […]
Last month I told you that Dan Piraro was involved with an auction to help raise money for an animal sanctuary in upper-state New York and that other cartoonists’ work were also on the auction block. From Dan I learn that some of the other cartoonists’ work will include: Garry Trudeau, Patrick McDonnell, Carol Lay, […]
From the AAEC web site comes news that R.C. Harvey’s biography of Milton Caniff, creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon is due out next month. “Twenty-five years in the making,” Harvey joked: “I started on it in 1982, interviewing Caniff, who was still alive then, and I finished the first draft in […]
Saturday’s Dilbert strip was switched out with a repeat because the scheduled strip made a reference to serial killing and on the heels of the Virginia Tech shootings, Scott felt that would not be well received. From Scott Adam’s blog: Yes, today’s Dilbert comic (Saturday) is a repeat. Here’s the scoop. I submit my comics […]
Back in December and March, I told you about a comic submission called What the Duck by Aaron Johnson. He created a creative way to track the rejections of the submission progress. He’s heard back from everyone but King Features and had some interest from Universal Press. Check out the his bingo chart for more […]
E&P is reporting that Brendan Burford has been named King Feature Syndicate’s comics editor. “Jay had planned for the inevitability of succession one day when he hired Brendan,” King President T.R. “Rocky” Shepard III said in a statement. “Brendan has worked side by side with Jay for the last seven years, and brings to his […]
A hearty congratulations goes out to Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson and his family for the new arrival of their son Liam Maxwell.Congrats Brian.
Joshua Fruhlinger over at Comics Curmudgeon, posts news that Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lante artist, has announced that Pibgorn has left comics.com to find a new home online. Here is the note: With United Media’s announcement that “Pibgorn” is to be discontinued, I have been inundated with e-mail, much of it agitated and distressed. I’m […]
Signe Wilkinson, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News has been awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for international cartooning – her third time for this award.Congratulations, Signe.
Over on Daryl Cagle’s blog, he’s posted the more controversial cartoons about the Virginia Tech shootings as well as the many gripes about them (scroll down). The two cartoons that are creating the most ruckus are Milt Priggee’s drawing of the letters “VT” drawn out in bodies as well as Rob Roger’s usage of imagery […]
According to E&p, Rubes cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has created an opening-sequence animation for an independent film entitled “Moola” that opens this Friday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California
Ward Sutton, who created Sutten Impact 12 years ago has said that he’s ending the feature so he can concentrate on other projects. For the last 9 years, Sutten Impact has ran in the Village Voice along with other papers.He says: In the last couple weeks I made a big decision: to retire my Sutton […]
If you haven’t visited Mike Lynch’s blog and read is write up regarding the recent Jay Kennedy Memorial, I suggest you do.
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury has been hitting conservatives pretty hard this last couple of weeks (and in many cases, deservedly so). At least one conservative blogger is taking issue with one Doonesbury that brings to light the fact that the family values banner waving GOP front-runners have a mired history of adultery and divorce. Trudeau is […]
Two stories of interest on the topic of where the future lies for comics. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks at the grown of web comics and interviews the usual suspects, Scott Kurtz (PVP), Scott McCloud, and Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame. Scott McCloud: “It defies reason to think this isn’t a […]