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 […]
E&P is reporting that 20 new 3-4 minute Peanuts animations are being released today on iTunes. The animated shorts are taken from classic 1964 comic strips and produced using Flash technology with new voices by Warner Bros. Motion Comics. Each episode contains 2 shorts for $.99. In an interview with E&P, Jeannie Schulz, the wife […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Charles Brubaker has posted an interview he conducted with Kevin McCormick who did the Arnold comic that ran for six years between 1982 to 1988. Do you still come across people that remembers your strip? Itâ??s weird but every once in a while someone will track me down and send me an email. The local […]
Charles Brubaker has been using Google’s news archive to look for gems of comic history. So far he’s found short run comics such as: Kelly & Duke (or just Kelly as it was titled in its first two years); Boomers Song by Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist David Horsey; Arnold by Kevin McCormick; Nutheads by famed […]
» MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond will be the “Phone a Friend” for Jim Batts, a fellow caricaturist, who will be competing on the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” on October 23.» The Jamestown Sun (ND) has picked up Chad Carpenter’s self-syndicated Tundra.» Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich will speak at North Georgia College […]
The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library is running an exhibit on Sam Milai, an editorial cartoonist for the influential African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier for 33 years. Most of Sam’s work was believed to been destroyed in a fire, but his granddaughter found some in a suitcase in her mother’s attic and donated […]