Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) and Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), along with Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants) will be presenting at a Drawn Together Fundraiser to raise money for Access Books which provides books to inner-city school libraries in the Los Angeles, CA area.From GoComics:At GoComics, we love […]
I’ve seen Mark present a couple of times now. He’s both funny and informative.
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Brian Fies, Eisner award winner for his amazing graphic novel “Mom’s Cancer,” recently finished up his latest foray into the comics world with “The Last Mechanical Monster.” It’s 170 pages […]
We’re down to the last six days of the Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning Indiegogo campaign and Anne could use your help. The festival is a 3 day festival in (you guessed it) Kenosha WI. Those three days are packed with presentations, workshops, comic art exhibits, and panel discussions by some really great cartoonists. Putting on […]
If you’re in the Glen Echo, MD area, Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude is a new musical written by Jim Davis and Michael J. Bobbitt. The show begins June 19 and runs through August 23. The plot: Garfield, a chubby and sarcastic tabby cat fantasizes about having the most amazing birthday in the history of […]
Last month the Cartoon Art Museum announced that they were losing their current space on Mission street due to higher lease rates in the Bay Area. They’ve now announced that they’ve been able to extend their current lease until September 2015.From their press release:In light of the booming commercial rental market, the museum?s situation is […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: The great Dan Piraro, writer and artist of “Bizarro,” one of my all time favorite comics, is here to talk about his recently announced path of riding off into the […]
Stephan Pastis was in England last week promoting his latest Timmy Failure book. He had a couple of interviews that hit the wire. The Economic Times focused on his career. Curiosity and courage In this volatile environment, what does it take to be a cartoonist? “Curiosity and courage. Curiosity because you are only as good […]
Richard Thompson is releasing a paperback chaser to his The Complete Cul de Sac that came out last fall. The new book, Compleating Cul de Sac, includes material that was overlooked or left out of the complete collection. Here’s how Mike Rhode describes Compleating Cul de Sac.The Complete Cul de Sac isn?t. Complete, that is. […]
This last weekend was the annual Reuben Awards where the National Cartoonist Society bestows their best of in various categories and the big prize for Cartoonist of the Year. This year, the Reuben Award went to New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. In the division awards the winners are: Magazine Feature / Magazine Illustration Tom RichmondNewspaper […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode:I’ve been a fan of Tom Dell’Aringa’s work from the moment I laid eyes on his comic “Marooned.” It started off life as a little comic about a stranded space man […]
This Saturday night is the annual National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Awards weekend where one (maybe two?) people not named Stephan Pastis will be crowned Cartoonist of the Year. On Friday, King Features Syndicate will host a special panel celebrating 100 years of comic strips. The event is free to the public at 11 am at […]
Tundra creator Chad Carpenter raised $64k through Kickstarter to make a movie. It hit theaters in Alaska on April 24. The movie is in limited distribution right now. If you’re interested in seeing it and live in Utah, Oregon or California, there’s several theaters where it will be showing. For a complete run-down, visit: http://www.moosethemovie.com/Here’s […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: It’s a Cavalcade of Stars on Tall Tale Radio! The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning takes place again this September, and there’s an Indiegogo happening to raise enough money to fund […]
From Jim Romenesko:The former leadership team of Civitas Media, which has newspapers in 12 states, thought it could cut its way to profitability. Several years ago, it removed the color comics from its Sunday papers, and dropped the weather map. Other cuts were made, too, that resulted in big circulation losses, I?m told. Last October, […]