W.K. Haselden of the Daily Mirror printed 17 Jan 1906British Cartoon archive, based at the University of Kent, has created one of the largest online archives of cartoon art with over 120,000 British political and social cartoons from more than 250 cartoonists going back to the 18th century. The collection also includes present day cartoonist […]
In Robert B. Parker’s latest mystery novel “Rough Weather,” he mentions Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup. On page 269, he writes, “I was studying a strip called Stone Soup, which seemed pretty good, and might fill the void left by Calvin & Hobbes, when Maggie Lane came in to see me.”This is not the first time […]
If you were one of the millions of individuals who tried to get to Berkeley Breathed’s web site on Sunday to learn who correctly guessed the Opus ending, you were not alone in your frustration that the server became overwhelmed. According to the L.A. Times, Berkeley’s website received 10-15 million hits compared to the 1,500 […]
Stacy Curtis was fortunate enough to travel to Chicago’s Grant Park, the location of President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory speech, last night and has posted photos and sketches on his blog from the event. He writes that the event was “spectacular”Stacy felt motivated to go because, as he puts it, “we figured we may never get […]
Through out the day I’ll be posting coverage of today’s presidential election from cartoonists around the country. Keep coming back here throughout the day for updates. First up: Ted Rall, the man conservatives LOVE to hate, has posted his second cartoon animation depicting GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin trying to take John McCain out ala […]
Australian cartoonist Bill Leak is set to be discharged from the hospital after a four day coma and emergency brain surgery after falling head first off a balcony on October 18. According to The Australian, Bill has no memory of the incident. “When I woke out of the coma they explained to me what happened, […]
Over the weekend, United Media rolled out a radically new designed Comics.com and announced that their paid subscription model service was retired in favor of free, unfettered, full access to all their 92 comic features and 45 editorial cartoonists. Comics.com went from one of the most expensive paid subscription comic services to completely free. Free […]
I’ll be live blogging the live bloggers during tomorrow night’s election results. If you’re a cartoonist who will be blogging about the election tomorrow night, please drop me an email so I can be watching for your stuff.
E&P is reporting that 20 new 3-4 minute Peanuts animations are being released today on iTunes. The animated shorts are taken from classic 1964 comic strips and produced using Flash technology with new voices by Warner Bros. Motion Comics. Each episode contains 2 shorts for $.99. In an interview with E&P, Jeannie Schulz, the wife […]
» Comic Book Resources posted their last profile of historic editorial cartoonists. Go read about Art Young.» Karen Montague-Reyes has posted the last two “road to syndication” articles on her blog. Part 3 and part 4.» The Aaugh blog notes that the latest Complete Peanuts volume (vol. 11) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972“>is now available for […]
In addition to the announcements from the syndicates as to what features newspapers were picking to replace the outgoing Opus, the following papers have announced their changes:The Tulsa World has picked up Mutts to run in the Sunday only slot vacated by Opus.The Sacramento Bee is going to trial run Secret Asian Man and Candorville […]
Darrin Bell’s venerable Toon Talk comic forum has moved to a new location to escape the ever growing onslaught of spam. Toon Talk is now hosted on Ning – a social network type service that, in addition to the forum that made Toon Talk a worthwhile destination, also allows it’s community members to create blogs, […]
Berkeley Breathed’s final Opus appeared today. The comic that appeared in newspapers directed readers to the Humane Society’s web site to see the final panel which depicted Opus in children’s storybook, “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. Berkeley’s own web site appeared to be struggling under the traffic load. Berkeley reports on his website that […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Slapstick Magazine, a periodical for published for comedians, comedy writers, comedy club fans, etc, recently interviewed Randy Glasbergen about his prolific career as a cartoonist and specifically about his weekly feature “Thin Lines” that is syndicated through Creators.4. How long have you been illustrating characters? I began my career in 1972 while I was in […]