Ryan Pagelow’s first collection of “Buni” from Andrews McMeel will be available for sale on June 5th.From the Buni “About” section on GoComics:Buni is a dark comic about an optimistic bunny with terrible luck. Always positive, Buni doesn’t understand that the cute world he lives in is really out to get him, whether it’s at the […]
Lucas Turnbloom, Terri Libenson and Dana Simpson have been nominated for the Kids’ Comics Awards being held by the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Comics Arts Festival over June 16-17 at the Ann Arbor District Library.Dream Jumper by Lucas Turnbloom and Greg GrunbergInvisible Emmie by Terri LibensonPhoebe and Her Unicorn: The Magic Storm by Dana SimpsonSee the rest […]
Or is it? From the Lubbock Avalance-Journal:My wife and I continue to wonder why Lubbock Avalanche-Journal continues to run the “Dilbert” cartoon on the “Comics” page?This cartoon is dump and stupid.See the whole letter here:http://www.lubbockonline.com/opinion/20180530/letter-aj-needs-to-consider-dropping-dilbert-cartoon-from-comics-page
Did you know King Features co-produced The Beatles 1968 film “Yellow Submarine”? Well, they did. And this summer they’ll be celebrating its 50-year anniversary.The film will be re-released this summer in theaters.From a Rolling Stone story:For the 50th anniversary screening, Yellow Submarine was restored in 4K digital resolution, though no automated software was used in order to […]
The Library of Congress has announced a multi-million dollar donation of comics and memorabilia from Diamond Comics owner and CEO Stephen Geppi. The collection includes original work from Walt Disney and Richard Outcault.From the Library of Congress release:The Library of Congress announced today that collector and entrepreneur Stephen A. Geppi has donated to the nation’s […]
The notice from The Meadville (Pa.) Tribune:Soup to Nutz ends its run in print syndication the week of May 21. The final daily is release date May 26.Soup to Nutz by Rick Stromoski March 27, 2000 – May 26, 2018 Newspaper Enterprise Association/United Feature Syndicate/(Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndicate for UFS) [daily reprints since March 5, […]
The National Cartoonists Society, on May 26, 2018, handed out awards at its annual Reuben’s Dinner. Nominees for divisional awards with winners in bold. – – – Updated June 2, 2018 – – –Editorial Cartoons Clay Bennett Mike Peters Michael Ramirez Newspaper Illustration Greg Cravens Glen Le Lievre Dave WhamondFeature Animation Benjamin Renner and Patrick […]
KaBOOM! has announced Peanuts: Dell Archive, a collection of Peanuts comic book stories originally published by Dell Publishing. Nat Gertler has a few details. Local Legend: Tom Batiuk in ‘Funky’ cold Medina Story from Cleveland.com about local cartoonist made good. Richard Pietrzyk to write and draw original Dick Tracy graphic novel ComicList has the story and an […]
The A/V Club has a story on a person who’s set Rush’s 2112 album to Peanuts animations:From the story:If you had to describe the internet to somebody, you might say, “It’s a place where people waste an inordinate amount of time when they could be doing productive things in the real world.” Or, you could […]
Philadelphia homeboy Mark Tatulli, nominated for The Reuben AND for Comic Strip Divisional Award, anticipates his city filled with cartoonists in today’s Heart of the City.
Hey, there’s Nick Galifianakis in a stylish hat.Tell me. Is that John Kovaleski fresh in from a two-and-half hour drive?Wait. Are those the McGarry brothers? Are they taller than last year?Off the record. I hear Mike Luckovich is hosting. Wasn’t he fab when he emceed in LA?-from special correspondent John Glynn
Mike Peters, who is nominated for divisional awards in editorial cartoons and comic strips this year, is attending The Dinner and he has brought a friend along for the weekend.While it is not surprising that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike has previously won the Reubens’ Editorial Cartoonist division and also The (actual) Reuben, I am a […]
The Comics Beat is reporting that Mike Norton’s “Lil’ Donnie” will be released as a collection from Image in August.From the Image release:Believe us, you’re going to love the LIL’ DONNIE, VOL. 1: EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE hardcover which collects the first 125 LIL’ DONNIE comic strips (winning!). This collection follows the timely and terrifying adventures of […]
The ECBACC Pioneer/ Lifetime Achievement Awards 2018 This past week in Philadelphia The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention presented its Hall of Fame awards to Ray Billingsley (Curtis), Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I’m Coming From), Jerry Craft (Mama’s Boyz), Tayo Fatunla (Our Roots), and Ralph Stevenson (Concepts in Communication, Inc.). The Missouri Man Who Draws […]
King Features Syndicate today announced several exciting new hires to support an aggressive vision for the company that includes expansion into entertainment platforms and new artist and IP acquisition. The new team includes, Ricky Li and Christina Nix Lynch, Directors of Licensing, Bridgette Bek, Senior Director of Digital Marketing, Erinn Smart, Director of Business Development, […]