Zach Weiner calls today’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal “a bit of an homage (to) the great Quino,” which perhaps means it’s a conceptual rip off, but, since I don’t read a lot of Argentine comics, I don’t know how much it’s based on something specific versus being based on Quino’s general pacing in his silent […]
South by South West (SXSW), the media, interactive and music festival in Austin Texas, has announced the panels for this upcoming conference and includes two panels. The first is entitled “How Comics Journalism is Saving Your Media” and will feature two comic journalists Matt Bors and Susie Cagle along with Sarah Jaffe and Erin Polgreen. […]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been spreading to cities across the U.S. Occupiers congregated in Oakland CA on Oct. 10 and comic journalist Susie Cagle decided to cover the protest and create a five-part series to run locally and nationally documenting the Oakland participants. Her work is being funded through Spot Us – a […]
Terry LaBan is wrapping up Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman the online graphic novel he resurrected in March after a 14-year hiatus. Terry has put the first 4 chapters in a slideshow for anyone wanting to delve into the story. Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman first appeared in the Fantagraphic series Cud and the Dark […]
Tom Tomorrow’s cartoon would be funny if it weren’t so directly taken from life.It seems, at first, a variation on the complaint about people being seen in grocery stores buying “luxury food items” with food stamps, which might, in reality, mean there is a birthday in the family, or it could be a sign of […]
The Daily Herald profiles editorial cartoonist and former Dick Tracy cartoonist Dick Locher.Locher said Sunday that after working so long in newspapers, it pains him to see the industry in so much trouble today, especially when it comes to political cartoonists. “It won’t stay that way,” he said, adding that “a smart editor somewhere will […]
Mark Stokes has posted another gem – this time a copy of a Peanuts panel by Charles Schulz that reveals his original pencil work. You can see how often he rearranged Charlie Brown and Luci to get the composition where he wanted them. Going through the process of developing a panel for a strip can […]
The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio are telling me that they will hold the second annual “So You Wanna Be a Cartoonist” contest. Details are still being hammered out, but what I do know is that the contest will start in January and that Universal Uclick will co-sponsor the contest. Some changes to […]
The Geek Out blog over on CNN takes up the topic on the rarity of women in the comics business. There are less women self-publishing or working on independent comics, which makes it harder for DC or Marvel to find female creators that can deliver quality work in a decent time frame. Asselin said having […]
Kevin McVey, co-founder of the New Jersey chapter of National Cartoonists Society, passed away last week at the age of 83. His career was one of an editorial cartoonist, courtroom artist, theatrical caricaturist and single panel cartoonist. Fellow New Jersey cartoonist Tom Stemmle writes about his friend:In the mid-sixties, McVey and Evers began gathering New […]
I’ve said before that Richard Thompson remembers childhood better than anybody else working that beat, and today’s Cul de Sac is both hilarious on the face of it but also a reminder of how thin the barrier between reality and fantasy was in those days.Never mind the Tooth Fairy and other official fantasies. We also […]
A David Simpson editorial cartoon in the latest issue of The Urban Tulsa might look eerily familiar to fans of the late Jeff MacNelly. The original MacNelly cartoon depicts is a scene of a military junk yard with President Jimmy Carter trying to jump start an aged jet with a beat-up pickup truck. The Simpson […]
Patrick McDonnell will again use his strip to raise awareness for National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week November 6-12. His strip will feature “Shelter Stories” about people who foster shelter animals.
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis’ new collection Larry in Wonderland: A Pearls Before Swine Collection debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the Paperback Graphic Books category at number one. This week it’s still a ranking title at number three. Book is 128 pages and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Rob Tornoe interviews Creators Syndicate President and Chief Operations Officer Jack Newcombe as he takes the reins of the syndicate started by his father Rick.How do you measure the success of these new features? By the checks that go out to the creators. Every single one comes across my desk and if it?s a number […]