I’ve kept a list, but haven’t had time to post what changes have been announced in various newspapers around the country. What is clear is that many papers have opted to run new comics in the vacationing Doonesbury slot.Here’s the run down for the last two weeks:» The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, FL) tried Prickly City […]
The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich as Editorial Cartoonist of the Year for the second year in a row.
Heroic Publishing has announced that they are selling a weekly newspaper comic strip based on their comic book character “Flare”. The new offering begins May 4 and will be distributed through Hometown Content editorial syndicate. In the vein of such successful American strips as PvP and Liberty Meadows, the FLARE comic strip offers a unique […]
Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro has announced that he’ll be posting his comic panel on his blog each day. Since he’s with King Features, he must post his feature a week behind what newspapers print, but if you’re a Bizarro fan and can’t cough up the $15/year for Daily Ink, bookmark his blog.
As noted on Friday’s News Briefs, Patrick McDonnell has written an environmental theme story line for Mutts during the week of Earth Day. From Alex Hallatt’s web site we learn that she too will have an environmental message for that week. She also mentions that each strip that runs on Mondays has an underlining eco-theme.
Cathy strip provided by Universal Press Syndicate. © Cathy Guisewite Last night’s “30 Rock” featured a Cathy comic strip that was created specific for the show. During the show, Tina Fey is shown looking at the “Cathy” cartoon in the New York Post. Fey is over a candy counter and mimics the character Cathy’s words: […]
» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started out like most. When Garry approached the paper, the ran his stuff because “we print pretty much anything.”» Neil Cohn, a frequent speaker on the topic of “visual language theory” has posted research that “reports […]
Jim Mooney, a legend in the comic book industry artist who passed away last month, will have one last published piece this Sunday. This Sunday’s Funky Winkerbean was written by Tony Isabella who made the characters appear as Superman and Supergirl. At Tony’s suggestion, Funky creator Tom Batiuk contacted Jim and asked him to draw […]
Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller will be featured in an exhibit that opens on April 19 in Neville (WI). It will run for four months and will feature over 200 of his editorial cartoons. Heller started at the Press-Gazette in 1985. The exhibit will include a smattering of his older editorial cartoons, with […]
Tom Spurgeon has posted a favorable review of Bill Mauldin’s Willie & Joe collection created by Fantagraphics. Reading these comics it’s hard not to see Mauldin through them, the young, funny and ultimately sensitive young cartoonist following the carnage of Europe and piercing all the way to the heart and humanity of a group of […]
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot turns 20 years old today. From Universal Press we learn that despite having retired the daily version at the end of 2006, the classic version still runs in about 50 papers internationally and the Sunday-only strips appear in more than 700 newspapers (print and online). Congratulations Bill on the milestone!
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot will use her feature to explore “how generations raised in front of television, computer and cell phone screens cope with having them removed” during National TV-Turnoff week beginning April 21.In the series, the difficulties of life without television are demonstrated as the teenage Holly tries to make it through the […]
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
The Seattle Times has announced that they area cutting jobs – some 200 jobs and Eric Devericks, their editorial cartoonist, tells me that his job will most likely be one of them unless enough people voluntarily leave. If not, May 5th will be his last day. Eric has been with The Seattle Times for nearly […]
“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints. “It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a […]