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.
Universal Press has posted an interview with Wiley Miller who will be Non Sequitur’s 15th anniversary. Non Sequitur is now in 700+ papers.Here is the Q&A from Universal’s site: Q: What was your first cartoon, Fenton, like? How was it different from Non Sequitur? “Fenton was pretty much a traditional, family comic strip. It had […]
Rob Rogers, the new AAEC president has announced on the associations web site that this year’s AAEC convention will be in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the organization’s existence. Says Rob: We chose D.C. because that’s where the AAEC’s first convention was held and it seemed like a great bookend for […]
Fantagraphic Books has an exhibit in New York City featuring 30 years of cartoons by Fantagraphic cartoonists such as Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead.
Today the Daily Cartoonist turns 1 years old. Cake and ice cream over at my house tonight!
Today marks 75 years since Dick Tracy appeared on the comics pages. Several cartoonist are paying tribute. Here is a list of features that I’ve been able to find that mention, display or otherwise give homage to Chester Gould’s creation:
According to his blog, Scott Adams is getting married today.
CNN has posted a story about how Ziggy’s 35th birthday. It also talks about how Ziggy was created and how when Universal Press was starting up, Ziggy was a popular comic strip that kept the fledgling syndicate afloat in the early years.
Ziggy celebrates 35 years on the comics page, which debuted on June 28, 1971. The comic is distributed to over 600 newspapers by Universal Press Syndicate.
The classic feature was started by Tom’s father, also Tom Wilson, as a greeting card character but has since grown into an internationally recognizable character and brand…. Ziggy is seen in 600 newspapers around the world and is a spokes-character for the National Foster Parent Association.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is celebrating 30 with Jim Borgman as their editorial cartoonist. To commemorate, they’ve posted a Q&A with Jim, several congratulatory cartoons from fellow cartoonists (includng Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Mike Luckovich, Marshall Ramsey, Jerry Scott, Jeff Stahler, Lynn & Rod Johnston), a video of Jim at work re-drawing the winning cartoon from the contest, a slideshow of 9 of his most favorite cartoons, caricatures of the local politicians he’s skewered over the years, and finally some of the cartoon contest runner ups.
According to E&P, the Cincinnati Enquirer will publish a special section of the paper next Tuesday on the anniversary of Jim Borgman’s arrival at their newspaper.The section will include cartoons by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Borgman, comments by people who have been the subject of his commentary, a Q&A, the results of the “Borgman Challenge” cartoon contest, and other content.Borgman told E&P that the section (which will coincidentally be published the day of his wedding anniversary) is a real honor. He added that the newspaper may be doing the special section partly to make up for the cancellation of a 25th-anniversary public event that had been scheduled for October 2001.