Among the discussion items at this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists gathering in Seattle this week, is an item from current president Ted Rall who suggests the organization think about merging with the National Cartoonist Society. Daryl Cagle, who is a member of both and former president of the latter offers a few suggestions […]
Starting next Monday, The Pajama Diaries will start a five-week flashback story-line that tells the story of Jill’s first pregnancy and the Kaplans’ journey towards impending parenthood. Regarding the story-line, Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries says, “with my own children growing quickly before my eyes, I have wanted to do a flashback series […]
Starting this week, the Baldo comic strip will deal with diabetes, a disease that disproportionately affects hispanics. The story-line will run through July 10 and include a toll free number for readers to get additional information.Baldo is written by Hector Cantu and drawn by Carlos Castellanos.
A Korean cartoonist identified only as “Choi” has been sued by Wonju city for the sum of $100,000 for inserting abusive words about President Lee into a cartoon. In the cartoon, which is supposed to be in honor of Korean Vietnam War veterans, a couple of people bow in front of a monument, but behind […]
The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They will be presented October 10, 2009 in Baltimore, MD, in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.Final ballots are due to the […]
Mike Cope, cartoonist, illustrator and author of “Last of the Funnies” is making a generous pledge to support the Schulz Challenge that is raising money for the Ohio State’s Cartoon Library & Museum. Mike is donating $2 for every copy his timely science fiction, which explores the future of the funnies in a virtually paperless […]
I had never heard of Corey Pandolph or Barkeater Lake until a couple of years ago. He sent me an email explaining that Barkeater Lake was leaving comics.com and that he had plans to turn it into a webcomic. Back then, my news gathering operation wasn’t as sophisticated as it is now and, well, I’d […]
King Features Syndicate is launching a new interactive feature called “Captionary” for it’s Comics Kingdom product. The new feature allows readers to write the captions of cartoons drawn by Dan Piraro, Mike Peters, Hilary Price, Vic Lee and Rina Piccolo. “In the same way people are attracted to The New Yorker CaptionIt contests, news sites […]
Books» I believe I mentioned this. There will be a collection of Johnny Hart’s religiously themed B.C. comic strips.» Barnes and Noble have once again steeply discounted Bill Mauldin’s collection “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years.” The books are listed at $65 but are on sale for $17.98 (no free shipping). Books are bargain books […]
We’ve discussed the upcoming release of Ponyo by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. There is now an official trailer for movie. Stylistically it is way different than American films a nod to its Japanese culture and the fact that it is not a CG film.
» The Herald Palladium is introducing Steve Sicula’s Home and Away to their readers.» The Kansas City Star is polling to see which feature should be dropped. On the chopping block: B.C., Beetle Bailey, Bizarro, For Better or for Worse, Cathy, Mark Trail, Marmaduke, Real Life Adventures, Shoe, and Wizard of Id.» Derek Donovan, the […]
Over on Steve Greenberg’s blog comes news that a proposal is being floated to give future AAEC/John Locher award winners a cash prize instead of the traditional all-expense paid trip to that year’s convention. Steve wonders if the proposed change is an acknowledgement that the profession is bleak, but then counters why a cash prize […]
Jake Thompson, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is this year’s winner of the AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award. Jake is a junior and studying advertising. As this years winner, he will receive an all-expense paid trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Seattle.
Character designer Stephen Silver will release his fifth book, Passion for Life, July 1, 2009, which gives insights into his philosophies of life drawing and life itself. “The title ‘Passion for Life’ came to me on the day that my fifty-year-old cousin Ellen Wahl passed away,” he writes in the book. “It is not only […]
The Washington Post has a comic editorial by Art Spiegelman exploring editorial cartoonists reaction to a 1939 refugee boat full of 900 European Jews fleeing Nazi German who were turned back when they reached the United States. Interesting review of editorial cartooning history and a not so subtle jab at the modern profession.