Today marks The Daily Cartoonist’s 2nd years of operation. Last year’s announcement of it’s first “birthday” was all of two sentences. This year, I thought I’d take a moment and report on the blog’s status, kind of a “state of the blog” type report. On October 2, 2005, I signed up for a blogger.com account […]
(Click for larger view) Posted online by special permission of King Features SyndicateIn what may be remembered as one of the most memorable deaths in comic strip history, the Funky Winkerbean character, Lisa Moore, has passed away bring this story-line closer to a definite conclusion. Tom Batuik’s portrayal of Lisa’s second battle with cancer – […]
Jeff Stahler/ Columbus Dispatch/ UFS Used by permissionColumbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler has timed the delivery of this editorial cartoon well. It appeared in his paper today and through his syndicate.
Discussion groups yesterday lit up with chatter about the possible death of For Better or For Worse character Jim (grandpa) who suffered from a stroke last year and appears to have suffered another one. Yesterday’s installment depicted a lifeless Grandpa being found by Iris who gasps, “Jim!!!” Today’s strip confirms that Jim has had a […]
Over on Mike Rhode’s ComicsDC blog, he’s passing on information that this year’s Festival of Carton Art has added Paul Pope, Arnold Roth, and David Saylor to the line-up of speakers to replace Jules Feiffer, Guy Delisle and Mark Siegel who have cancelled their appearance. Paul has worked in alternative comics, manga, comic books and […]
Michael Jantze’s The Norm will soon be available on GoComic’s mobile line-up. The offerings include the comics, new weekly mobile chapters as well as wallpapers. The Norm was first syndicated in 1996 through 2004 when Michael opted to take his feature exclusively to the web.
Brainwaves creator Betsy Streeter has launched a blog about 2 weeks ago. Betsy mentions that along with other topics, she’ll have a reoccurring topic called, “Big Thoughts About Little Drawings” which she describes as, “where I go into more detail about how some of my cartoons come to be and the unique challenges of single-panel […]
According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Home Video has become the exclusive worldwide home video distributor of over 50 Peanuts specials. Warner plans to remaster many old classics such as A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The first collectors DVD will be Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown […]
Jim Borgman, Dave Coverly and Craig Boldman will all be panelists at the “Books by the Banks” book festival in November. This is a first time event for the festival and the three cartoonists will panel a discussion entitled “So, You Draw Cartoons for a Living.” The festival is on the 3rd of November.
From E&P we learn that Parade Magazine is adding cartoons by Dave Coverly and Carla Ventresca to their weekly LaughParade page starting this Sunday. The article doesn’t make it clear if the cartoons added are Dave’s Speed Bump panel or Carla’s On a Claire Day strip.Parade magazine has featured Bunny Hoest and John Reiner’s The […]
The Comic Wire has an interesting interview with Fox Trot creator Bill Amend who dropped his daily strip back in December of last year. He talks about his contract with Universal Press, how he produces his Sunday feature, character identification, merchandising and more nondescript, vague answers about what he does with his time now that […]
David Reddick who does the comic feature The Trek Life that runs on Startrek.com has turned 2 years old and will now be seen 3-times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).
Mark Heath writes in after seeing Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble theme song to mention that he too has a theme song for his feature Spot the Frog albeit “more humble (i.e. amateur) than his.” Check them out on the Spot the Frog Radio Theater Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Here’s #5:
Aaron Johnson, creator of the What the Duck web comics and the syndication bingo game (see announcement, update, progress report), tells me that it’s official – he’s signed a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate that guarantees a 2009 launch (at the latest). The paper has expressed interest in changing the feature’s name before it’s […]
I don’t know if Scott Adams frequents The Daily Cartoonist and saw our discussion last week on newspaper trends, but he’s waded into the discussion by posting his prediction on the future of newspapers. In short it will happen within your next 2 mobile phone upgrades. I predict that the end of printed newspapers will […]