E&P reports that The Star-Ledger of Newark received about 1,200 complaints from readers after they dropped six comics and moved one page of comics to another location in the paper.Editor Jim Willse told E&P, “Virtually no one liked the change.” Big understatement. Two comics will return. The change saves the paper $300,000 a year.
I received an email from Guy and Rodd, creators of Brevity, alerting me that yesterday’s strip wasn’t their first swing at the joke. The first was nixed by editors. Here’s the one as it was originally drawn. They also note that the woman in the strip looks suspiciously like a character from For Better of […]
The New York Times reports that mobile devices is re-surging the popularity of Manga. For a variety of reasons, the mobile version has manga booming again. In the year ending in March, Japanese manga publishers raked in Â¥32.9 billion in revenue, up 43 percent from the previous year and from next to nothing in 2003, […]
The perpetual 15 year old, Jeremy of the comic strip Zits, will be allowed to turn 16 opening up a whole new landscape of comic material. When asked why they decided to tamper with the age of their strip’s star after 12 highly successful years in syndication, Scott and Borgman responded, “About the meanest thing […]
Google’s personal homepage feature, “iGoogle,” now allows you to select from 50 comic themes which include several comic book characters, syndicated comics and webcomics. Among the syndicated features themes include, Peanuts, Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, Nancy, Garfield, Ziggy, Mutts, Popeye and Krazy & Ignatz (Krazy Kat). To use the theme, you’ll need a google account […]
Last June I told you that Washington Post Writers Group would be launching a new feature entitled Fort Knox on October 5. The new feature is by Paul Jon, a military brat whose taken his childhood experiences of constant moving and resettling and turned it into a strip featuring a military family (Major Joe Knox; […]
The San Jose Mercury News ran a cartoon depicting actual excuses people have given police officers after being pulled over for speeding. The cartoons seemed harmless to me, but the mention of sex, breasts brought out the prudish readers and a lively discussion ensued in print. A round up of letters have been published with […]
Tom Tomorrow has created the album-cover for the upcoming Pearl Jam new release in September. The band is doing a promotional game wherein fans can participate in an “internet Easter egg hunt” searching for all nine of Tom’s images, getting clues, and then using the clues to figure out where to download a free mp3 […]
The Library of Congress has announced an exhibit to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of political cartoonist Herb Block, aka Herblock. Herblock’s career spanned 72 years beginning in 1929 through 2001. The exhibit will feature 82 original cartoons from his collection. It runs October 13 through May 1 of 2010. H/T: Mike Rhode
I read a couple of animation news blogs everyday and report what I believe would be of most interest to you all. If you’re highly interested in animation, I recommend you follow The Animation Blog, and Animated News.Here’s a couple of stories I found interesting from the aforementioned sites:» “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” […]
From the press release: Do-Over Productions has just announced that they have optioned the film rights to Wide Awake, the extraordinary webcomic written by Eric Trautmann and Brandon Jerwa, with art by Mirco Pierfederici and art direction by David Messina. As described in the press release from Do-Over, Wide Awake is the story of Amanda […]
The self-syndicated comic Tundra has hit the 300 papers milestone in just three years making it the most successful self-syndicated feature on the market. Chad Carpenter’s feature started in six newspapers in his home state of Alaska. A friend, Bill Kellogg offered to help sell it nationally. Bill says selling the strip is relatively easy. […]
Animation» Wallace & Gromit fans have something to look forward to in September. Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection will be released September 22 on DVD and Blu-RayBooks» The Cleveland Scene interviews Nevin Martell, the author of the upcoming book on Bill Watterson. Not a lot of new information. My understanding was that Nevin never […]
Pixar announced that on October 2nd they are releasing a Toy Story double feature. The two week release will feature the first two Toy Story features and a 3D trailer of Toy Story 3. Toy Story 3 is due out June, 2010.Here is the double feature teaser:
Last March I posted news that actor Warren Beatty and Tribune Media Services were in a legal scrap over the movie rights of the Dick Tracy character. Beatty had the rights and made the 1990 Dick Tracy movie in which he starred, however TMS says that the rights were lost after a decade. The latest […]