Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge has launched a blog to post his unpublished and killed cartoons. The blog is actually a sanctioned blog hosted on the Star’s web site and has the full backing and support of the publisher and editors though it does contain the following warning at the top of the […]
Mike Lynch points out that May 5th is traditionally been Cartoonists Day but that it really hasn’t been publicized for the last several years. He also points us to a new web site set up dedicated to the day. I’m not sure who’s behind the web site but the press release says to contact Ken […]
From the Aaugh blog comes news about a new biographical work on Charles Schulz that will be available in October. The book, coming in at 688 pages, is entitled “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” and is penned by David Michaelis. Amazon is offering a pre-order price guarantee that if you pre-order the book now, you’ll […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was one of the featured speakers for a tribute to film director Robert Altman who past away last November according to E&P. Garry worked with Altman on two “Tanner” HBO series in 1998 and 2004. Other speakers included: Harry Belafonte, E.L. Doctorow, Kevin Kline, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, and Lily Tomlin.
Kevin Kallaugher, or KAL, was featured in the January/February edition of the Harvard Magazine. The article mostly featured his work on the Digital Dubya – the 3-D bust of President Bush. One interesting factoid on how KAL landed his Economist gig: Kallaugher went to England for a bicycle tour after college, took a job as […]
Did anyone notice that Stan Lee had a brief appearance in last night’s episode of Heroes? I noticed his name in the credits but it wasn’t until I saw the episode for the second time that I recognized him as the bus driver in the last 5 minutes or so. Heroes is one the hottest […]
Michael Fry Last May, I told you that Michael Fry (the writer behind Over the Hedge), had started a company called RingTales along with Jim Cox (the executive co-producer for the Over the Hedge movie). Their objective was to create small animated shorts from existing print cartoons that can be distributed via mobile phones, blogs/web […]
Julie Larson recently featured a fan inside her Dinette Set comic strip. Charles Barngrover, a retired University of Cincinnati business professor works with stain glass and gives away his creations. The Dinette Set for February 18 showed signs in her strip reading, “Barngrover Inc.,” “Charles Stained Glass!” and “Larson Special Order.” Apparently, Barngrover met Julie […]
Tom Spurgeon reports that the 2007 Glyph Award nominees have been posted. For best comic strip the nominees are: Candorville by Darrin Bell, The K Chronicles by Keith Knight, Templar, Arizona by Spike, (th)Ink by Keith Knight, and Watch Your Head by Cory Thomas. There is also a category called best reprint publication which includes […]
The Helen Day Art Center will be opening a new exhibit entitled Fine Toon: The Art of Vermont Cartoonists to feature 13 cartoonists with Vermont ties including Harry Bliss, Frank Miller, Ed Koren, Hal Mayforth, James Sturm, Stephen Bissette, Alison Bechdel, Tim Newcomb and Jeff Danziger. The exhibit runs through March 31 and costs $5. […]
After receiving complaints that the print on the Sunday comics were too small and hard to read, they’re printing the comics bigger – but discontinuing a couple of strips to make room. They’ve dropped Peanuts, Frank & Earnest, Rose is Rose, Blondie, B.C. and Family Circus. These will continue to run as dailies. Mother Goose […]
Patrick McDonnell was interviewed by the Star Ledger where he discusses the dogs in his life that inspires in comic strip Mutts.
KOTV in Tulsa has a story (including video) of their interview with Tulsa World editorial cartoonist (and Kudzu creator), Doug Marlette.
I’m seeing a few rumblings across some movie bulletin board and blogs that Christopher Columbus has picked up the movie rights to Dilbert after they lapsed from Columbia (who produced the short run Dilbert tv show). Columbus is the director behind the Harry Potter movies. Speculation circulates that it will be a live action movie […]
Click book cover above to buy book through Amazon. A new collection book will be coming out on March 12 entitled Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression and as the title suggests, the book contains nearly 100 cartoons and illustrations that never saw print because they were axed by editors or publishers […]