» San Jose Mercury News has picked up Baby Blues, Candorville, DeFlocked and The Duplex. Outgoing strips include: Garfield, For Better or For Worse, Hagar the Horrible and Frank and Ernest.» The Oshkosh (WI) Northwesterner is starting a poll asking three questions: Which two comics in The Northwestern are your absolute, cannot-do-without strips?, which two […]
Margaret Shulock, one of the Six Chix cartoonist, has written about her experience writing a continuity strip, in this case Apartment 3-G that she wrote for three years ago. So how do you write a strip that someone else draws? I was unsure but I knew the previous writer had simply typed up scripts with […]
Animation» The plot for Toy Story 3 is the subject of an A.P. story posted a week or so ago. “Next year’s “Toy Story 3″ has the gang learning they have reached their shelf life as the young boy who owns them grows up and goes off to college.”» Pixar receives lots of positive ink […]
» Deflocked bumps out Zippy the Pinhead for a place in The Berkshire Eagle.» The Toronto Star has added Garfield and Baby Blues to their line up . No other features were cut.» New Britain (CT) Herald: began running running Sunday Frazz this last Sunday.» The Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun added Pearls Before Swine […]
Marvel comics ended the marriage between Spider-Man character Peter Parker and Mary Jane in several comic book titles and the newspaper comic strip soon followed suit for the sake of continuity with the comic books. But that now seems to have ended, at least in the newspaper version of the comic. Sunday’s comic revealed that […]
Nancy cartoonist Guy Gilchirst has produced his first music video of his relaunched music career in Nashville. The song is entitled “Jim Beam me up, Scotty” and the video was produced with his artwork and the animation talent of Mike Cope. Guy tells me in an email: Then I started drawing. A few hundred pieces […]
The 2009 Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the year goes to Dave Coverly. Dave does the comic panel “Speed Bump” and does panel cartoons formthe New Yorker and Parade Magazine. “Speed Bump” is syndicated through Creators Syndicate.Other nominees this year included Stephan Pastis, and Dan Piraro.
This years National Cartoonist Society’s division award has been given to Mark Tatulli for his comic strip “Lio”. Lio launched with Universal Press Syndicate in 2006 and has been one of the most recent success. Mark beats out Stephan Pastis and Richard Thompson for this honor.
Here are the results thus far:Greeting card: Jem Sullivan Comic books: Cyril Pedrosa for “Three Shadows” Advertising illustration: Craig McKay Gag Cartoons: Mort Gerberg Television animation: Sandra Equihua and Jorge Gutierrez for “El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Riviera” Feature Animation: Nicholas Marlet – character designs for “Kung Fu Panda” Magazine Feature/illustration: Sam Viviano Newspaper […]
I’m closing shop down for the weekend to head to AZ for a family wedding. Thanks to Mary Anne Grimes at United Media and John Read of Stay Tooned! magazine, we’ll be able to bring you the results of the National Cartoonists Association’s Reuben Awards weekend. Mary and John will be texting me the results […]
Things are still quite chaotic at work. I apologize that it’s eating into the time I usually dedicate to the blog. Products are set to launch first week of June. Things on the blog should pick up then. Until then, you’re all free to create an account and post any stories, discussion items that isn’t […]
Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist for MSNBC and founder of Cagle Cartoons Syndicate has laid out what he believes is the future of syndication. It would seem that the new paradigm is to think of a syndicate like a store. A store in a good location has lots of customers who find the store. A store […]
Since I won’t be able to attend this year’s Reuben Award weekend due to a wedding in AZ, I’m looking for a “stringer” who would be willing to text the results to me. I can have canned announcements of the winners ready to go, but need someone on the inside who can tell me which […]
We have several Daily Cartoonist regulars who attended or participated in this weekend’s Maine Comics Arts Festival. Mike Peterson has posted his thoughts on the “Surviving as a Print Cartoonist” panel featuring Corey Pandolph (Barkeater Lake, Toby: Robot Satan, The Elderberries), Norm Feuti (Retail, Gill) and Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate) with Mike Lynch moderating. Mike […]
Jeremy Love’s Bayou took home five awards this year in the annual Glyph Comics Awards. Jeremy took the top spot for the best Story of the Year, Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Female Character, and Best Comic Strip. Other winners include Black Lighting (Grant Morrison, Writer; Matthew Clark, Norm Rapmund, Rob Hunter, and Don Ho, […]