A Tina’s Groove comic (above) that was slated to run May 5 didn’t make it past King Feature editors because it was deemed potentially offensive to some readers. Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo writes how insane it is that the US newspaper comics are stuck in the 1950s as far as humor.This tastes like crap […]
King Features Syndicate has launched a new comic strip on American soil. The strip, Carpe Diem, originates from Sweden and is by Niklas Eriksson. The strip has been running in Europe for many years. in 2008 it won Scandinavia?s biggest comic prize, the Pondus Award.If your paper doesn’t subscribe to it yet, you can read […]
Legend of Bill and Intelligent Life creator David Reddick has posted on Facebook that he’s tied the knot.Congratulations, David! My best to the both you and Dana.
ABC News talks to Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli as well as B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni about the shrinking comic page and how it’s affecting cartoonists. Mark mentions that his client list has lost 30 papers in the last 18 months. B.C.’s list has shrunk 5%, which is a big number […]
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: Howie Noel of the great comic “Tara Normal” is here to talk with Lucas Turnbloom and me about his ongoing Kickstarter to fund the second book in the series, “Tara […]
Brian Basset’s Red and Rover turns 15 today. During those 15 years, Brian has nominated four times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society – three of those four in the last five years (2010, 2012, 2014). It won that category in 2012.Congratulations, Brian on the milestone.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Islamic organization in the U.S., released a statement condemning the attempted shooting attack in Garland TX and made it very clear that it considered the event, the event organizers and leadership to be a hate-group against Islam. “We condemn yesterday’s attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, […]
Daddy’s Home co-creator Gary Markstein has started doing cat cartoons for a local non-profit to deal with the issue of overpopulation of feral cats. The cartoons aren’t the LOLcatz kind of thing. It’s all about bringing awareness to a program called “Trap, Neuter and Return.”Gary got involved after visiting with a friend in Grand Rapids […]
The Simpsons writer, The Doozies creator and unquestionable Ernie Bushmiller fan (evidence here and here) Tom Gammill spied a comic strip props from this season’s Mad Men that included several Nancy strip by Ernie. Tom writes me:Fans of Mad Men may have noticed this season that copywriter Peggy Olson has Sunday comic strips taped to […]
The documentary Stripped by Directors Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder is now on Netflix. If you haven’t yet seen it queue it up and give it a watch.You can still buy it in DVD form. Head over to their site for details.
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: Don’t get to say the word “legendary” all that often, but truly legendary animator Bill Plympton joins me to talk about his latest film, “Revengeance,” that he’s doing with animator […]
If found these t-shirt designs through the Peanuts Studio blog. Threads, a t-shirt printing company, has teamed up with the Peanuts studio to run a Peanuts design challenge for the best design. You can vote for the best design over on Threadless. There’s a couple of designs I’d like to purchase for myself.Here’s Peanuts Creative […]
If you’ve drawn the Prophet Muhammad, you might soon be targeted by Islamic Jihadis. Or at least that’s the conclusion ForeignPolicy.com reports after two Jihadi Twitter users called for a Charlie Hebdo style attack on cartoonists in the U.S. and Australia (subscription required). One of the Jihadis targeted a specific Aussie, Larry Pickering, who is […]
The 2015-16 Kenosha Festival Of Cartooning fundraising has started. Anne Morse Hambrock, the festival founder, has a great event lined up. Mark Tatulli of Lio, Heart of the City, Desmond Puckett Bill Morrison ? Art Director: Futurama, Co-Founder of Bongo Comics, Simpsons and Disney Illustrator, Roswell Little Green Man Jan Eliot – Stone Soup Darrin […]
Photo © NBC Doonesbury and Alpha House creator Garry Trudeau was featured on yesterday’s Meet the Press to discuss his comments made regarding the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. Garry’s speech has been interpreted as opining that the French cartoonists brought the terrorist attack upon themselves because they didn’t censor themselves when it comes to Islam.Garry and […]