Dilbert creator Scott Adams went into the restaurant business a decade ago at two locations: Stacey’s Cafe in Waterford and Pleasanton California. Pleasanton has doen well, but the Waterford location has struggled and as business partner Stacey Belkin has been over-extended and Scott began to take on more of the day-to-day operations of the Waterford […]
After 18 years in the North County Times, Mark Thornhill has left the paper for other projects. North County movers and shakers. Some of the local politicians I’ve caricatured on the Opinion page have been good sports and have even called me to request that I send them original artwork of themselves so they could […]
This weeks guest on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast is Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano. This week Francesco Marciuliano mixes it up with us from a cell phone, on this very silly interview. ‘Ces is a very funny guy, and he lets us in on the legacy of Sally Forth and what it’s like […]
The Houston Chronicle announced yesterday that they are printing all of their comics in color starting on Monday, but that they are dropping a full page of comics. The dropped comics will still be carried on their online offerings. Why is the paper doing this? It’s a cost-cutting measure. The Chronicle has run more comics […]
How cool is this? Over on Tom Tomorrow’s blog he writes that he created a series of cartoons that can be projected onto sides of buildings in San Francisco and Seattle as part of promotional efforts for a new mobile service. Passers by can text their punch-line into the empty word balloon, completing the cartoon. […]
Robert “Bob” Bindig, the artist for the comic strip Big Boy from 1985 to 1995 passed away on Tuesday at the age of 87. Bob was drafted into World War II where he served in the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1946. According to the Veterans History Project, he was assigned to the Psychological Warfare […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced plans to buyout 55-60 employees as part of a cost reduction effort due to sagging ad revenue. The employee buyouts are voluntary. Stuart Carlson, who has been the paper’s editorial cartoonist for 24 years, reports that 22 employees have taken the paper up on its buyout option, but he […]
Fanatgraphics books is opening an exhibit in their bookstore called the “Unseen Peanuts“ a small collection of little known works by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. The features are deemed “unseen” because they were one of thousands that were left out of published collections until the Complete Peanuts Project. The exhibition will showcase nine of […]
I’m scheduled to interview B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni tonight. If you have any questions about B.C. or Mason’s work on the feature, feel free to email them to me or add them into the comments and I’ll be sure to ask him.UPDATE: Had a good interview with Mason and he was very open to all […]
Secret Asian Man creator Tak Toyoshima will be the featured speaker at the Asian Festival on the campus of Baylor University (Waco, TX) tomorrow night. He will be speaking on the topic of “Asian Americans in the Mainstream.” Tickets are required for the banquet (where Tak will speak). Check the above link for details.
The 2008 Glyph Comics Award nominations are now being accepted for its 2008 competition. The award spotlights the best black comics and creators in the industry. If your comic strip or it’s material is black-themed, you’re eligible for the award. The award defines black-themed as: any comic with any combination of the following: a black […]
King Features Syndicate has committed $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy, who served as King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief from 1997 until his untimely death earlier this year. The fund will be administered through the National Cartoonist Society Foundation, the non-profit art of the NCS dedicated to advancing […]
Five of the nations largest newspaper companies are in talks to create their own advertising network in hopes of recapturing ad revenue that hasn’t been made the leap from their print products to their web offerings. The consortium will create a common ad sales force to help compete against ad networks set up by Yahoo […]
Just heard from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey on the results of his election night live blogging efforts. He reports that from 4:42 p.m. to midnight he wrote 46 blog posts with 8 cartoons – “seven sketchier ones and one that ended up being my cartoon for print.” His blog traffic doubled and was the […]
From E&P we learn that Keith Knight, creator of the K Chronicles and (th)ink will be at the Cartoon Art Museum on November 17 as part of their “Cartoonist-in-Residence” program. He’ll be there to talk shop, sign books, etc.