Bitstrips launched earlier this month as the latest new social web social 2.0 social web application to make webcomics easy. Did I mention that it was social? I was curious about the site both from a technical perspective and how it would treat comics. It was a big hit at this year’s South by South […]
Last January, I reported that My Cage creators Ed Power and Melissa Dejesu were running a writing and fan art contest for their feature. They have announced the winners, as well as created a new blog for their feature.Winners of each contest will be featured in the strip. They’ve posted the drawings of the winners […]
With the demise of the Cincinnati Post, Matt Tauber has gone through the microfilm archives and pulled out some of Bill Watterson’s editorial cartoons. So far he’s posted four of his cartoons: see first, second, third (this is a well known, circulated cartoon) and finally a fourth one as well.
Dark Horse Comics will release a “comprehensive” collection of Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles. The new volume will contain all comics of the first four collections that are now out of print. “Folks have been clamoring for this collection ever since my books went out of print,” says Knight “The fact that one of the […]
Darrin Bell’s Candorville was pulled from the Washington Post two weeks ago as well as the Detroit Free Press. The week long story-line involved character Lemont Brown interviewing the Secret Service why security for Barack Obama appeared to be lacking. According to one RACs reader who asked the Free Press Special Features and Syndicates Editor […]
Two upcoming episodes of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will not be viewed in the U.S. because the Cartoon network pulled them because “they savage another cable network, BET.” BET CEO Debra Lee is depicted in Sunday’s episode as Debra Lee-vil, a Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network “that would […]
Last January I told you Frank Cho would be releasing a 10-year anniversary collection of his Liberty Meadows strip. Wednesday “Liberty Meadows 10th Anniversary Edition” will hit book shelves. It’s 176 pages and contains all the strips from the first nine collections plus a special introduction by Erik Larsen and never-before-seen college strips than started […]
John Sherffius, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) has won this year’s Wilbur Award for outstanding work in the secular media addressing religious issues. John will be formally recognized in a banquet and ceremony on April 5th. John is also this year’s Herblock award winner.
Last week’s Dilbert created a stir among those “not especially religious” for a story-line mocking Jesus in the weeks leading up to Easter according to Dilbert creator Scott Adams on his blog. See beginning of story-arc. This week’s series in Dilbert caused quite a stir. It featured a new guy in the office whose name […]
I would like to take a moment to thank all those who posted their condolences and sympathies on the blog or took the time to e-mail me. My wife and I were genuinely touched by the outreach of so many people whom we’ve never met, yet somehow I can call friends.Yesterday, my mother-in-law laid to […]
Blogging will be minimal at best on Friday and into next week as I attend to family matters.–Alan
The “Left, Right, & Wrong: Celebrating the Art of Editorial Cartooning” that opened up in Seattle last February has been extended until April 15 due to great public interest. The exhibit features the editorial cartoons of David Horsey, Pat Moriarity, Andrew Wahl, Peter Bagge, Donna Barr, Lew Andrus, Dan McConnell, and George Jartos. “Whether from […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog writes in to tell me that he’s started a Fundable project to raise money to create a color daily download version of his first Spot The Frog collection. The first printing of his book will soon be out of print so he’s hoping to raise the $1000 necessary […]
Many of you know that TDC regular Dawn Douglass has spent years and a small fortune on creating a viable business model for cartoonists to make money on the web. She’s asking for feedback to a recent blog post about how cartoonists feel about her latest plan. For some months now, I’ve been trying to […]
The Cartoonists Northwest has hosted its 17th annual Toonie Award Banquet this last Saturday. At the banquet they honored this year’s winner of the Golden Toonie for Cartoonist of the Year. The winner was:Pat Moriarity (Illustration). Finalist for the award also included Mark Monlux (Web Comics), Roby Gilbert (Print Comics), and Elizabeth Pankey (Caricatures).They also […]