From ye ol’ E&P, Donna Barstow, who does a weekly feature called ‘Daily Special‘ will be creating a new feature called ‘Fault Lines‘ for the Los Angeles Times’s revamped Sunday Magazine called “West.” The unveiling is scheduled for February 5th.“Fault Lines” will discuss the movie industry, staying in shape, and various other topics of interest […]
Several New Yorker cartoonists are gathering in Vail this weekend to host an event entitled “Humor on the Slopes Cartooning Festival.” The three day event is a promotional event by a local ski resort to attract more visitors and features Harry Bliss, Matt Diffee, Ed Koren, Bob Mankoff, Victoria Roberts, Jack Zeigler, and others.During the […]
I mentioned this earlier back in December, but the NYT has a much lengthier posting (scroll down) about original MAD magazine artwork up on the auction block.The last original artwork from the archives of MAD Magazine is to be auctioned in 2006, starting with a Jan. 21 sale at Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers in Dallas. […]
Oh, that we always received such respect. Clearly, the comics are a powerful medium for talking about the human experience. They should be required reading for painters who have forgotten that storytelling matters. While painters have been turning art inside out, manufacturing one style after another, Johnston has worked the old-fashioned way, with good drawing […]
USA Today has an write up about the growing popularity of Manga and the two newspapers (LA Times and Seattle Post) that now carry syndicated manga. TOKYOPOP founder Stuart Levy acknowledges that manga is not yet as popular in the USA as it is in Japan, but he expects that will change soon. “It’s like […]
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 […]
Cartoonist Jim Whiting has penned a book “Analecta: Selected Reflections of a Cartoonist’s Life”. Jim Whiting has written the autobiographical “Analecta: Selected Reflections of a Cartoonist’s Life.” Whiting, 79, worked on the syndicated “Ad Libs,” “Wee Women,” and “Li’l Ones” features. The last two were created by Mell Lazarus, who does “Momma” and “Miss Peach” […]
The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco has an exhibit called “Why Do They Hate U.S.? An International Perspective on American Politics & Culture”. The exhibit starts Dec. 22 and runs through April 30th.Even in times of international turmoil and American jingoism, the rest of the world, uncomfortably, still looks to the U.S. for leadership. […]
Lee Nordling’s comic strip syndication seminar has been placed on hold for the immediate future. As I wrote on Toontalk.org, the frat-like location I’d planned on holding the seminar in apparently sustained some fire damage a short while ago, something I only recently discovered.He also writes that he is working to find another suitable location.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Comics Reporter is pointing to the comics.com site for “That’s Life” where it has been announced that the strip by Mike Twohy has come to an end.The last current “That?s Life” strip will be on December 3, 2005. Starting on December 4th Comics.com will be re-running the strip starting from the very beginning. We […]
Congrats to a bunch of aspiring cartoonists. From a press release off of Universal Presses web site: Student Cartoonists’ Awards Announced Kansas City, MO (12/05/2005) Four first place winners were selected among many aspiring young cartoonists who participated in the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) /Associate Collegiate Press Cartooning (ACP) Awards, co-sponsored by Universal Press […]