The Houston Chronicle has a nice write up about Tank McNamara co-creators Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds. Both cartoonists live in the Houston area, but as the article notes, they rarely see each other. Millar e-mails the dialogue, with whatever description he thinks is needed. For the first panel he’ll write: “1.” For the second […]
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For 58 years the Wall Street Journal has featured a gag cartoon under the title of Pepper…and Salt – most of the time running on the editorial page. As of April 22, the cartoon was moved to the Arts and Leisure page and reduced in size. The move might actually be a good thing. The […]
Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. The animation pokes fun at Hillary Clinton singing a parody of “Stayin’ Alive.” The animation is plugged on the paper’s homepage.Regarding the move to animation, the paper has posted an interview about his work: Q. How does producing an animated cartoon compare […]
Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson has a special National Cartoonists Day cartoon over on his blog. TK here.Also check out his Free comic book day cartoons 1 and 2 as well as his May 4th (May the fourth be with you) Day cartoon.
Fantagraphics will release a complete collection of the first decade of cartoons by Jules Feiffer, the former Village Voice cartoonist. The book is entitled “Feiffer’s Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-66” and contains his comic strip, Sick, Sick, Sick which was retitled “Feiffer” in 1959. The book comes out May 28, but if you’re […]
With their online success, Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza are branching out their two webcomic features into television and movie deals. Their feature, Least I Could Do about a “sex-obsessed twenty-something male character who loves science fiction and fantasy,” is being developed for a TV pilot for Canada’s Teletoon network. Least I Could Do was […]
A 20th anniversary Dilbert book is set to released in September according to E&P. The book will be about 600 pages, 4,000 strips and a CD that contains every ‘Dilbert’ strip and that can be updated as new comics are released. The cartoons were personally selected by Scott Adams and offers his comment and humorous […]
Editorial cartoonist Paul Fell has donated some of his editorial cartoons and illustrations to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The “Paul Fell Cartoon Collection” is the start of an expanded special collection of graphic novels, cartoons, comics and papers created by UNL- or Nebraska-related artists.Paul’s editorial cartoons appeared daily in the Lincoln Journal from 1984 to […]
The Wexner Center and The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library will co-host an exhibition of artwork from Jeff Smith’s critically acclaimed Bone comic. The exhibit, entitled “Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond,” will feature approximately 80 original drawings as well as an exhibition of selected original comics by artists who has influenced Jeff – artists […]
Welcome to the blog’s new look. It has been an off and on again project for over a year with several reworks during that time. About a month ago, I settled into this design and made a concerted effort to get it out the door before I got the urge to scrap it and start […]
Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lunday has posted some insightful writings on her road to syndication. Now she’s posted a sneak peak at her brainstorming sessions by scanning a couple of pages from her notebooks so that you can see her writing, notes, and scribbles.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will be opening an exhibit featuring famed editorial cartoonist Herbert “Herblock” Block in May. The exhibit, entitled “Herblock’s Presidents: ‘Puncturing Pomposity” features 40 political cartoons. The exhibition includes his depictions of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald […]
British Columbia cartoonist Bob Bierman has passed away at the age of 86. Bob was the cartoonist for the Victoria Daily Times from 1962 to 1972. He left the paper after a newspaper strike and began work for the government. He was sued for libel in 1978 by a British Columbia cabinet member for a […]
According to Mike Rhode, the Herb Block Foundation is working on an extensive book collection of Herblock’s cartoons to be released in time for his 100th birthday, October 13, 2009. The planned collection is said to include a DVD of 16,000 of his cartoons and a 4,000 word essay by Haynes Johnson, who was Herblock’s […]