Despite living in the Chicago area for nearly two decades, Hal Foster’s work, Prince Valiant was never published in the area newspapers, nor any of his art work been displayed in area museums. But one 78 year-old fan has worked to create an exhibit of 50 enlarged and restored reprints that will open Monday at […]
When Charles Brown (yeah, that’s his real name) contacted Mort Walker to see if he would autograph a historical book about Camp Chowder – the Army camp that Mort was stationed at during World War II – Mort did more than just autograph the book – he sent Charlie (yeah, he also goes by “Charlie”) […]
Craig Yoe writes in to share a scan of the very first Pogo comic strip over on his web site. Fantagraphics is publishing the entire Pogo comics and has asked for help from those who own any originals or high quality scans. From Gary Groth, founder of Fantagraphics:We are looking for the best possible black-and-white […]
Straight from the NCS are the results for this year’s Reuben Awards held last Saturday night. Bill Amend, creator of Foxtrot was honored with Cartoonist of the Year – the highest honor. The Golden Key Award went to Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey and the Silver T-Square was given to Joe and Luke McGarry.The […]
Mark Pett, creator of Lucky Cow holds the Guinness World Record for the LARGEST comic strip. Back in June of 2003, he organized a fund-raising event for the local high school art department wherein students recreated a larger scale version of a Lucky Cow strip. As far as I know, that record still stands. You […]
Bryan Munn at Sequential, a blog that covers “Canadian Comix News & Culture,” has been following the Ben Wicks abandoned comic court case. Here’s review of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. It appears that under Canadian law the defendants have to prove that the Wicks family had left it property behind […]
From YouTube. I’m actually surprised at how well the animators tried to keep the original drawing style of Bill Watterson. The next thing I thought was, I’m really glad Bill never sold out and licensed C&H for animation. Watching the short did take away something from strip. Because the strip had no voices attached to […]
Charles Brubaker writes in to point out attention to Chris Harding’s blog wherein he writes about his short-lived syndication deal (Feet of Clay) back in the 1997-1998. It’s a two part posting (one and two) and offers a glimpse behind the curtain into the demands a daily comics strip can have on one who may […]
More than a 100 examples of original Dick Tracy cartoons will be on display at a new exhibit called the “The Art of Dick Tracy: 75 Years of Crooks, Dames and Fedoras” at the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum on June 22.
Mike Lynch has posted the first part of a speech that Charles M. Schulz gave (presumably at a NCS function) about his life as a cartoonist. He later posts a link to Hoggan’s alley that contains the full speech.
Over at Newsday, Bill Mcternan is talking about the comics that still grace the comics page decades after the original created has died. When TV was an unfulfilled dream and a Sunday newspaper cost a dime, more or less, the comics were a kid’s domain. When my generation was young, the Katzenjammer Kids and Jiggs […]
Daryl Cagle recites the history of Cartoonists Day over on his blog.An excerpt: Cartoonists usually work in isolation and the opportunities to work together were great fun at first – then the glow started to fade. Some cartoonists were enthusiastic about the idea of Cartoonists Day, and pushed the idea of every comic strip artist […]
A new Blondie book is due out this August called, Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History and will focus on the comic’s history, characters and creators. The feature is 77 years old.
From the AAEC web site comes news that R.C. Harvey’s biography of Milton Caniff, creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon is due out next month. “Twenty-five years in the making,” Harvey joked: “I started on it in 1982, interviewing Caniff, who was still alive then, and I finished the first draft in […]
Milton Caniff seems to be the big rage this year – and deservedly so. It was his collection that jump-started the OSU Cartoon Research Library that is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary and will focus on Milton this October during the Festival of Cartoon Art, R.C. Harvey is writing Milton’s biography, and Humorous Maximus received permission […]