Last January I told you Frank Cho would be releasing a 10-year anniversary collection of his Liberty Meadows strip. Wednesday “Liberty Meadows 10th Anniversary Edition” will hit book shelves. It’s 176 pages and contains all the strips from the first nine collections plus a special introduction by Erik Larsen and never-before-seen college strips than started […]
» The Northwest Florida Daily News is running a poll. Candidates being considered include: Baby Blues, Between Friends, Bizarro, Cul de Sac, Daddy’s Home, Dog Eat Doug, Get Fuzzy, Mutts, Ollie and Quentin, The Pajama Diaries, Pearls Before Swine, Pickles and Pooch Cafe.» Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star, will be the keynote […]
Sean Hoy will be releasing his fifth book, Out of the Cup, a collection of coffee cartoons soon. Sean is an editorial cartoonist, illustrator out of Arizona and produces topical cartoon collections for golfers, dog lovers, cowboy/westerners, and office dwellers. You can check out his stuff at Off Kilter CartoonsLio, and Heart of the City […]
Fans of Frank Cho’s Liberty Meadows will be excited to know that a hardcover 10 year anniversary collection of the strip will be released on February 27th. See how it all began from the very beginning in this all-new hardcover collection of the first issues of Frank Cho’s fan-favorite humor series! Collects Liberty Meadows #1-9. […]
E&P reports that Sunday’s Prince Valiant was the 3,700th installment. The feature is currently being created by Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz. Prince Valiant debuted in 1937 by Hal Foster and then was taken over by John Cullen Murphy.
Lalo Alcaraz’s Cucaracha hit the 5 year mark last month and appears in 60 newspapers nationwide. Lalo has drawn editorial cartoons for the LA Weekly since 1992 and also draws English and Spish editorial cartoons for Universal Press. If that didn’t keep him busy, he’s also co-editor of the satirical magazine Pocho, a co-founder to […]
E&P reports that Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark has turned 20 years old. Congratulations, Mark.
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.
Richard Tennant, creator of The 5Th Wave, will celebrate 10 years in syndication this Friday.
This Thursday will mark Stuart Carlson’s 15th year as a syndicated editorial cartoonist. He’s been with the Milwaukee Sentinel since 1983.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams turns 50 today. A somewhat retrospective post on his blog to commemorate the passing: When I was 20, I wondered what it would be like to be 50. None of my guesses were close. I assumed that “aging” was automatically bad, so I didn’t look forward to it. No one told […]
Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press this month. In the last 10 years, the feature has won many awards including: “Hot Comic Strip of the Year,” as named by Rolling Stone magazine; and, second place two years in a row for Best Cartoon in […]
Jeff Kilpatrick writes in to announce that the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, which he co-founded, will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary on May 4th with a large art show that will include the artwork for over 20 of their members. The organization has over 80 members with 30 who are active participants including Andrew Hart […]
To mark the 15th anniversary of Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur, Universal Press will be re-releasing the first Non Sequitur strip in February 16th. It was originally a Sunday feature, but Wiley has prepared it as a daily.