An indoor amusement park that has been using the name “Camp Snoopy” will soon be losing the rights to use the name. The megamall lost the rights to the comic-strip characters this spring and is still trying to reach a new agreement with the syndicate that controls the creations of the late Charles Schulz. Camp […]
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly mentioned editorial cartoonists Mike Thompson (Detriot News) in his Talking Points Memo segment recently. O’Reilly used a Thompson cartoon that ran in USA Today to decry the mocking of conservatives. “Take a look at this cartoon [3rd one down] in USA Today. which has been drifting left over the last years. […]
There is a nice article in the Maine Today about Wiley Miller and his connection to the state of Maine, how it creeps into his strip, and how the Maine Sunday Telegram is now finally running his work. Make that 701 subscribers now. The Maine-based storyline is one of the “comic strips within a comic […]
Today is Black Ink Monday and yesterday a couple of columnists wrote about the upcoming event. Ted Vaden of the News & Observer talks about Dwane Powell’s work for their paper and the decline of the editorial cartoonist population in the U.S. Their numbers seem to dwindle daily. Last week, prize-winning cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher […]
I missed this story which ran on nj.com (New Jersey) about Patrick McDonnell’s new book “The Gift of Nothing”. The article also discusses Patrick’s attempt to keep life in the slow lane. “To tell you the truth,” he chuckled, “I don’t get out much anyway. A cartoonist’s life is like a monk’s life, very solitary. […]
Boston’s NPR station has an audio interview with cartoonist Chris Ware who is one of the cartoonists for the New York Time’s comic section. They talk about his new collection called “The Acme Novelty Library (Acme Novelty Library)“
Remember the cartoon (quicktime, windows media player) where the Smurfs were carpet bombed during a Unicef commercial in Belgium to draw attention to the plight of children in the Sudan and Congo? The New York Times has a brief story on why they used cartoons in that commercial (not to mention its affect on fund […]
Gannett CEO Craig Dubow says that Gannett has had record revenues for 2005 and that they are taking a ‘hard look’ to acquiring Knight Ridder. But the first question for Craig Dubow, Gannett’s president and CEO, following the presentation concerned the company’s interest in acquiring suddenly up for grabs Knight Ridder. Dubow answered: “We are […]
Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite will serve on the Board of Judges for Talbots annual Women?s Scholarship Program, a fund that annually awards $100,000 in college scholarships to women seeking a bachelor?s or associate?s degree later in life. ?Cathy? appears in about 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In 2005, a major event took place in the comic strip […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun, talks to E&P about the buyout he didn’t intend to take. But then Kallaugher heard that The Sun’s publisher had discussed eliminating the cartoonist slot entirely to save money. “Rather than wait for the ax to drop on my position at The Sun, I opted for […]
E&P has interviewed the remaining Tribune Company editorial cartoonists still gainfully employed. The going theory for keeping their job is to do more local cartoons. “The only insurance an editorial cartoonist has — if he or she has any insurance at all — is to focus on local issues,” said Englehart. “Newspapers can buy national […]
Another Garfield DVD has been unleased to the public. Details at Detriot News Fans of Garfield will think it’s a big, fat, hairy deal today with the release of the fifth and final volume of “Garfield and Friends,”the cat’s cartoon series from the early 1990s. The 25 episodes in this three-disc set are from the […]
A Charlie Brown Christmas aired last night the 40th time and according to E&P – the price for a 30 second commercial was $200k. NEW YORK As the 40-year-old “A Charlie Brown Christmas” airs once again Tuesday night, the “Peanuts” property continues to earn many millions for the estate of the late Charles Schulz. ABC-TV […]
United Media is launching a new strip on January 2. The new feature Cow & Boy is by Mark Leiknes.Mark Leiknes’ strip — titled, appropriately enough, Cow & Boy – focuses on the friendship between a farm kid named Billy and an 800-pound bovine animal. Early clients include the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the Detroit […]
E&P has a story about comments Wiley Miller has made suggesting that in addition to Black Ink Monday, syndicated editorial cartoonists should cease to syndicate their work for a week or even up to a month.“The biggest problem is that staff cartoonists are too easily replaced with cheap syndicated cartoons,” said Miller. So staff cartoonists […]