Tuesday’s Morning Edition on NPR had a segment devoted the newly release biography of Charles M. Schulz entitled, “Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis. You can listen to the broadcast from NPR’s web site. I haven’t listened to the broadcast, but the write up to introduce the segment focused mainly on Sparky’s affair during his […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau’s Sandbox blog – which allows service men and women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to write about their experiences – has been collected and printed in book form entitled “Doonesbury.com’s The Sandbox.” The Washington Post has an article about the book and a bit about Garry’s work to support the troops. […]
On Friday, Mike Baldwin’s comic feature Cornered will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press. Mike was one of the first cartoonists to color his daily cartoons by himself.
Universal Press has announced that Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles will celebrate 25 years of syndication at the end of this month. He started his career at the Buffalo Courier-Express in 1973, then moved to the Buffalo News in 1982 when the Courier-Express closed. He’s been at the Washington Post since 2002.
Bruce Guthrie took a good number of photos of Richard Thompson speaking at the Bethesda Writer’s Center last week as well as some photos of his cartoons. Richard is wearing the red shirt and gray jacket.Hat tip: Mike Rhode
J.D. Crowe has released his 4th book entitled “Smell The Love” It’s big as a meatloaf, ornery as a feral cat and full of nudity, awkward moments and twisted history from the past 5 years. I whittled over 1200 cartoons from 2003 to mid-August 2007 down to the 269 that appear chronologically in this collection. […]
Ouch. Aussie editorial cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield awoke to find that someone had dumped engine oil all over his white car.Thanks J.D. for the heads up.
Monte Schulz, Charles M. Schulz’s oldest son, has posted a comment over on Cartoon Brew regarding the Schulz and Peanuts biography calling the author, David Michaelis “arrogant” and outlines several small and large factual errors in the book. So, why didn’t I correct him when I read that first version? Because to change the central […]
The Charles M. Schulz Musuem has several interesting exhibits planned this year. Starting January 16th the museum will have feature an exhibit called “Beyond Words” that will display 75 Peanut originals that told stories without using words. Exhibit runs through May 12th.Beginning in February, another exhibit co-curated by Brian Walker (who also co-curated the recent […]
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s review of the Schulz and Peanuts biography that appeared in the Wall Street Journal had New York Magazine wondering how the newspaper tracked down the reclusively retired cartoonist. Long story short – they went through the syndicate. The magazine references an article over at the Cleveland Scene who, in […]
San Louis Obispo’s newspaper, The Tribune, has a lengthy article on Jerry Scott – one of only three cartoonists to have two comic features in 1000+ papers at the same time. The article explains how Jerry met up with Rick Kirkman to create Baby Blues (Jerry is the writer) and how he hooked up with […]
Jeffrey Weiss, the religion reporter for the Dallas Morning News, wondered why Tom Batuik made no mention of religion, prayers, god or faith in the story-line of Funky Winkerbean character Lisa Moore’s death. End-of-life is when people and their loved ones often confront their spiritual beliefs. But not a single strip mentioned God, clergy or […]
Charlie Hall drew and editorial cartoon for the Barrington Times (RI) and created a wave of upset readers. The cartoon is described as: In the first panel of the cartoon, a high-school student is being harassed by others for urging her peers not to drink. A girl tells the student, “Yea, if WE want to […]
Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batuik is well into this book signing tour to promote his new book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. According to the Akron Beakon Journal, his first book signing in Akron brought out over 400 people. The book, which is printed by a small press […]
The Billings Gazette added four new features earlier this year: Pickles, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy and Baby Blues and now they have added Pearls Before Swine and Prickly City to their line ups. To make room for the new features, they have dropped B.C. and Mallard Fillmore. Additionally, the paper has announced that it will […]