According to this report, Spider-Man is coming back to newspapers in a big way. News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are reintroducing Spider-Man as a weekly half page insert. NEW YORK News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are teaming up to distribute collectible editions of “Amazing Spider-Man” in Sunday papers beginning in late summer 2006. […]
Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug continues to pick up papers and the occassional headline. The Pittsburg Tribune-Review has picked up the strip and added it to their line up. They’ve also posted a story about the creator. “Really, I see it animated in my head,” he says. “So all I’m doing is picking out still […]
The Sun-Times’s new paid circulation numbers are down 100,000 papers. “That’s dramatic,” said John Morton, an industry analyst based in Silver Spring, Md. “It’s huge. It’s an enormous reduction, and we’ll see how they recover from it. In the current environment for the newspaper business, it’s very difficult to add to circulation, and I’m sure […]
Patrick McDonnell’s first story book “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the NYT Beset Seller list for Children’s books according to his web site. It is with great pleasure to annouce that Patrick’s first storybook, “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the New York Times Best Seller […]
From editor and publisher: NEW YORK “The Family Circus” creator Bil Keane drew a cartoon for a 2006 calendar distributed by The White House Commission on Remembrance. This month, the commission sent thousands of the poster-sized calendars to U.S. troops around the world and to children who have lost a loved one in the service […]
In observance of the Christmas holiday, I will not be updating the Daily Cartoonist over the Christmas weekend. I’ll resume posting on December 27th.I appreciate the encouragement received from you, the Daily Cartoonist visitors and subscribers. I wish you all a warm and pleasant Christmas/holiday.All the Best, Alan Gardner
I noticed gocomics.com when I was visiting Gardfield‘s web site a couple of days ago, so I assumed that GoComics was an established product/feature, but the press release announcing the services hit the wire today. From the press release: With a huge list of popular comic strips, GoComics lets fans put their favorite characters on […]
E&P is reporting that Kate Salley Palmer will have a exhibit of her work on display at the Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library running from January 10 through April 14. Palmer, a former staff cartoonist for The Greenville (S.C.) News, left syndication in 1989. Since then, she has written and illustrated children’s books. Also, […]
From E&P, we get this little nugget of information: A 100-year-old comic strip has made this week’s “Must List” in Entertainment Weekly. Ranking sixth on the top-10 list is “Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays,” the Peter Maresca-edited book picturing classic strips Winsor McCay created between 1905 and 1910
The Charles M. Schulz Museum will begin a new exhibit (scroll down the page) on February 4 (through May 29) called, “Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies.” The subtitle is: “An Exhibition of Peanuts Girls and their Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors” and as you might expect shows various girl characters in comic strips […]
An international cartoon contest has been announced. The theme is “Draw for peace For a world without war.” The requirements seem a bit non-traditional. One submits original work, on thin paper, with a required 20mm margin around the cartoon (and you don’t get your work back). On the flip side, the first prize wins 1550 […]
There is a really good interview with Clay Bennett, President of the AAEC, on PJnet. Bennett talks about the recent lay-offs and buy-outs, the journalistic standards of editorial cartoons, blogs vs. editorial cartoons, and his advice for anyone wanting to be an editorial cartoonist. Certainly the New York Times is a great paper. And it […]
The self syndicated strip “Girls & Sports” will be distributed by Creators starting January 1. Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein co-created “Girls & Sports” in the late 1990s. They built a clientele of 75-plus campus papers before starting to seek general-circulation papers in October 2004. They now have more than 100 non-college clients — an […]
A press release on Universal Syndicate’s web site gives us a peak at a story line in the newly launched “Ink Pen” where one of the characters has to change it’s name because it infringes on the trademark of another creation. The strips reflect the real-life issue Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap became aware of […]
Editorial cartoonist Dave Fitzsimmons will be a keynote speaker at the National Association of Realtors annual conference on April 2, 2006. Don?t miss this special event featuring keynote speaker Dave Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons is a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist for the Arizona Sun newspaper. As a political commentator, Fitzsimmons might appear cynical and irreverent. But […]