Alcon Entertainment has announced that Mark Dindal will direct new animated “Garfield” feature film produced by John Cohen and Steven Wegner.From the story:Dindal, 58, is best known as the director of animated features like Cats Don’t Dance, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Chicken Little. “Comic strip characters have always had a special appeal to me,” he said in a […]
Comic book and comic strip writer and editor Stan Lee has passed away.STAN LEE (Stanley Martin Lieber) December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018 Stan Lee had been in the comics business since 1941, but it was in 1961 that he began his rise to fame. With Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, and others Stan […]
above: a Bill Mauldin non-Veterans Day strip Between 1969 and 2000, Charles Schulz dedicated 19 Peanuts strips to Veterans Day, making him perhaps the most decorated creator to commemorate the United States holiday on all of GoComics.The GoComics blog presents those 19 Peanuts/Veterans Day strips and some history. But they seems to have missed a couple – […]
The Columbus Dispatch has given notice, at the bottom of a column touting its e-edition extras, that the hard copy will no longer carry the daily Peanuts comic strip. Reason? – $$$$.Another change will affect one comic. We are dropping the daily Peanuts cartoon this month. We will keep the Sunday Peanuts strip for now, […]
Jeremy Banx offers the only Armistice-Remembrance-Veterans Day cartoon you’ll ever need, reminding us that the only thing that can stop 2 or 3 million bad guys with guns is 3 or 4 million good guys with guns.Which may or may not be true, but if we can’t even agree on what the day is called […]