Rick Stromoski, Lynn Johnston, Raina Telgemeier, and Bob Fingerman. Rick Stromoski, the cartoonist of Soup to Nuts and Andrew’s Journal fame, returns with a second book, in what can only be called a series now, about the adventures of Schnozzer & Tatertoes, a pair of anthropomorphic dogs. Schnozzer is a level-headed, intelligent schnauzer who keeps […]
Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series.Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take us, […]
Michael Cavna and David Betancourt, Washington Post pop culture reporters with an expertise about comics, have accepted buyouts from the newspaper.From Mike Rhode: Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now. David Betancourt […]
Hard copy newspapers are already behind the times versus digital news platforms so what’s another day or two? Lee Enterprises, which purchased the Buffalo News in 2020, announced in February it would be printing editions at the Plain Dealer’s facility in Cleveland and trucking the papers in for local delivery. The last locally printed edition […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith recovering from heart attack To our friends and fans: Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday [August 13]. There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who […]
Bill Messner-Loebs’s work in comics was beloved by fans for many years, but the circumstances of his life—illness and injuries—have conspired to make things financially quite difficult. Recently out of the hospital, Bill and his wife are now facing eviction. You can read the brutal details of his medical and legal situation in his own […]
As we reported a month ago Lee Enterprises newspapers are reducing their publication schedule to three days a week. We then didn’t know if other Lee papers would follow suit and jump in. Well, it seems the publisher is going into the pool one toe at a time. A few days after that first group […]
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print edition of the paper will change its publication and delivery schedules while expanding its content. From The McDowell News: … With all of that in mind, and in an effort to preserve the excellent local […]
The familiar Flo and Friends have been a part of Jenny Campbell‘s life for over twenty years, less familiar to many of us is her other friends at Rescue Village, also a 20+ year affair. That changes with the publication of a new book. As Rescue Village informs us: For more than two decades, Jenny […]
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 15 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2023. These inductees include 11 deceased comics pioneers and 4 living creators. The deceased greats are: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green, Jay Jackson, Jeffrey […]
News with Monte Wolverton, Brian Fies, Roy Lichtenstein, George Herriman, Lucy Shelton Caswell, and Shantell Martin. When Cartoonists are No Longer Supported by Newspapers Monte Wolverton is asking for a little help. From Daryl at CagleCartoons: We’ve put up a crowd funding campaign for our beloved and brilliant, progressive cartoonist, Monte Wolverton at Cagle.com/Wolverton –come […]
All about The National Cartoonists Society in their new pamphlet.
From NorthJersey.com: Assemble New York Giants fans: the G-Men are officially joining the Marvel Universe. The New York Giants are teaming up with Marvel for an Avengers-inspired crossover this season that is being billed as an “integrated collaboration” that will draw inspiration straight from the comics and thrust Big Blue into the world of iconic […]
Loss of advertising, loss of readers, loss of jobs. What else?Wood pulp prices increased in January 2021 with further increases announced for March.The price of pulp paper (and ink) will continue to rise.Periodic and moderate changes in the prices of raw materials are expected in the normal course of doing business. Year-long, global pandemics having […]
Young Liza had succeeded in fulfilling a lifelong dream.In 1979 Liza Donnelly joined three other women as the female force of New Yorker cartoonists; there were more than ten times that many male cartoonists contributing to the magazine then.Not long before that she was made aware that she was a “woman cartoonist,” prior to that […]