» Jules Feiffer interviewed by Bookslut about his career.» John McPherson profiled in the Daily Gazette (Schenectady NY).» Brian Crane’s Pickles was picked up by the Ukiah (CA) Daily Journal. » Michael Cavna continues to interview cartoonists about their twitter usage. This time: Detroit Free Press’ Mike Thompson.» Hat tip to Mike Rhode who alerts […]
A 1973 Peanuts Sunday strip is up for auction. The signed Sunday comic dated April 1, 1973 features Lucy playing a April’s Fools joke on Charlie Brown by telling him the Red-Haired Girl was waiting outside for a hug and kiss. After Charlie Brown takes the bait, Lucy says, “just like shooting fish in a […]
Hermes Press has announced that it will reprint the complete The Phantom series that has appeared in newspapers since 1936. The first volume is due out in September. As the daily strip ran in a different continuity from the Sunday version, Hermes Press will issue three volumes of dailies each year and one volume of […]
Someone has posted a 1963 video documentary of Charles Schulz talking about the creative process and where inspiration comes from. It runs a bit over 4 minutes.Aside from the cartooning nuggets of info in the video, I have to smile that Sparky had about 11 people in the car (counting himself and supposing a cameraman […]
» Charles Brubaker has found a video of an old Hank Ketcham animation before Hank created Dennis the Menace. » Former Springfield News-Sun cartoonist David Catrow will drawing caricatures of pets and their owners for a fund-raiser for his local Humane Society this Saturday.» Speaking of dogs, Vincent Frank, a retired engineer, was profiled in […]
A Jeff MacNelly painting of a local Inn in North Carolina that he created in the late 1960’s, while Jeff was still attending UNC-Chapel Hill, has been found after decades of being missing. Jeff painted the inn as a freelance project for needed cash and the painting quickly became the inn’s iconic image – used […]
The New York Times ran a very interesting piece on the “Schulz’s Beethoven: Schroeder’s Muse” that opened earlier this fall. The exhibit demonstrates that Charles Schulz use of Beethoven’s music in the strip was deeply researched. When Sparky drew strips featuring Schroeder playing the piano, the musical notes drawn were actual notes from Beethoven work. […]
Tom Mason has a great interview with Dean Mullaney, who started Eclipse Comics and most recently is editing and designing the Library of American Comics, a series of classy comic strip reprint hardcovers, published through IDW. The topic of the interview is Noel Sickles, a contemporary of Milt Caniff who create the action strip Scorchy […]
Corey Pandolph’s Barkeater Lake turns 10 years old this year. It was first called Social Order and ran in the Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, ME before being picked up in 2002 by United Media and ran on comics.com with the new title Barkeater Lake. In commemoration of the last 10 years, Corey has launched […]
The Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel will turn 90 years old tomorrow. The feature started by Robert Ripley in 1918 to fill space in the New York Globe. Robert took a file of “dubious athletic achievements” and created a feature called Champs and Chumps which was then later retitled to Perceive it or […]
Back in November there was an email exchange between Mike Rhode and I and then with Bob Harvey and myself over a recent 9 Chickweed Lane sequence that intimated a sexual encounter between two characters – more specifically the loss of virginity of Amos and Edda. Unable to get a hold of Brooke McEldowney for […]
Mort and Greg Walker talk about the history of the International Museum of Cartoon Art, the inception, growth, and many triumphs and struggles over the years in an interview with Comicologytv. Earlier this year, Mort announced that he was donating the cartoon collection to the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library.
Gasoline Alley turns 90 today. The feature, created by Frank King, was first published in 1918 and is often cited as the first comic to age its characters. In an effort to attract more female readers to the Chicago Tribune, the editor asked Frank to introduce a baby – which posed a problem as the […]
The “Don’t Touch My Comics” blog over on at the Times-Union has an interesting post about the mixed race heritage of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman. Apparently, his true race is somewhat of a mystery. His birth certificate says “colored” and his death certificate says “caucasian”. Many feel he spent his whole life trying to […]
Google announced this week that it is hosting the photo repository for Life Magazine. The index is completely searchable by name and many are finding photos of famous cartoonists. The Aaugh Blog found four photos of Charles M. Schulz with family, friends; Three Men in a Tub found a photo of Johnny Hart. I found […]