To commemorate the second volume of the Bloom County Complete Library being released, USA Today is running select strips with commentary from Berkeley Breathed this week. The commentary today is about the eighties and Star Trek references. Q. In Ted Koppel’s intro to Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 2, he writes, “I never believed […]
Speaking of original Peanuts artwork, a Phoenix woman took her stash of original Peanuts art that she’s been buying up since 1950 to the “Antique Roadshow” hoping that they’d appraise enough help she and her husband retire. She estimated her collection was worth about $50,000, but the appraiser on the television show said that her […]
A great catch from Mike Lynch (who credit’s his dad, Dr. Lynch) for this letter to the editor in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette from Jean Schulz, wife of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz warning that not all the original drawings being auctioned off are authentic. Sally Kalson’s April 11 article (“From Peanuts to Picasso: Art Collection Is […]
I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .
Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore has told ComputerWorld that he has resubmitted his rejected iPhone app to Apple for reconsideration. Mark’s app was rejected last December. Since winning the Pulitzer last week and the rejection hit the blogosphere, Apple invited him to resubmit. According to ComputerWorld, a customer wrote to Steve Jobs himself pleading the […]
Twice this week, spammer were able to exploit the site to inject code into the blog. I’m still trying to ascertain the full scope of what they were able to do. At the moment, it appears limited to inserting code into a file that is read by search engines and sends search engine traffic to […]
Mark Fiore is worthy of a Pulitzer, but last December Apple wouldn’t allow Mark’s iPhone app into the App Store because it “contains content that ridicules public figures.” According to By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries’ blog on Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked Mark to resubmit his app. But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday […]
Mark Fiore wasn’t the only cartoonist that took home a Pulitzer Prize this week. Matt Richtel, who pens the Rudy Park comic strip under the name Theron Heir took home a Pulitzer Prize this week for the New York Times for a series of articles on distracted driving. From the NY Times: The series generated […]
In typical Simpson fashion.
Nathan Cooper’s In the Sticks is going political. As of Monday, the golf themed strip edges right politically.From the press release: Beginning with the April 12 strip, In the Sticks will dispatch a daily dose of humor from the Blooming Dogleg Country Club colored by a conservative political perspective. The first politically themed strips, as […]
Carl Moore, creator of State of the Union, has decided to end his strip on May 1. He tells me that he gave the strip five years to catch on, but in the end it was not generating the revenue to justify the time to create it.
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen of the The San Diego Union-Tribune has been named the winner of the 2010 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. This annual competition, created by Columbia College Chicago in 1980, is in honor of the legendary editorial political cartoonist John Fischetti.Breen has been the editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune since […]
Congrats to Jen Sorenson, creator of Slowpoke comic strip. She’s been named as the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Additionally, she is the first woman to receive the Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award from Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies.The Aronson award honors “journalism that measures […]
Slashfilm and other sites are reporting that the graphic novel, Cowboys & Aliens will be hitting the big screen and that Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde will be the star actors. The movie is set to be released in July 2011.According to IMDB, the plot is based in Silver City, Arizona, where “Apache […]
Congratulations to Dick Locher who was honored yesterday with the unveiling of a new Dick Tracy statue that will now stand in the Naperville Riverwalk, where Dick has resided for many years.For more information, check out the close up photo of the statue is here, read statements by the Chester Gould family and information about […]