Filed under: Comic Strips

In a series on GCTV celebrating Women’s History Month, Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price talks about how she got into the male-dominate field of cartooning.

This weekend is the opening of the Bill Watterson and Richard Thompson exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Head curator Jenny Robb talks to Bill and curator Caitlin McGurk interviewed Richard about their art, influences, and the current state of comics. Excerpts below. Be sure to read the full interviews. And by […]

Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy writes:If you live anywhere near Kenosha, Wisconsin, there is an amazing comics festival coming up in September…”The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning”. There are a MULTITUDE of cartoonists giving presentations PLUS two?count ?em?TWO gallery shows of original cartoon art. And even better?the events are all free to the public?so all you […]

Bill Holbrook’s On the Fastrack turns 30 years old today. That’s a nice accomplishment – even more so when you consider that he also does the comic strips Safe Havens and Kevin and Kell.Congratulations, Bill!

Film Divider took a frame by frame look at how the CG artists are applying a more traditional line-art style to 3D animation.One of the inherent problems comes from Schulz?s character design. In CG, the underlying premise is that each character is represented, with very few exceptions, by a single, three dimensional model. This is […]

Speaking of Peanuts, Fantagraphics Books has announced it’s going to release a softcover edition of The Complete Peanuts. That’s good for someone like me who would love to have it in the collection but can’t justify the cost of buying so many hardcover volumes at $50 each. From Fantagraphics Books:If there’s anyone out there who’s […]

I’ve been dreading this moment since it was announced a Peanuts movie was in the works. I have a complex view of “legacy” strips or related projects. In an ideal world, the creator’s work should end with the death or retirement of the original creator. But we don’t live in that world, so I give […]

A big thanks goes out to Daniel Boris, who sponsored the blog last week. He’s running a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his children’s book Dozi the Alligator based on his Dozi character in his strip. The story follows how Dozi meets Byron Hoxwinder, the other main character in the comic strip. The 20 […]

Last week the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) launched an auction to benefit Stan and Sharon Sakai. The money raised will go toward medical care for Sharon who has been battling a debilitating brain tumor for some time. There’s some great pieces of original art up for grabs for a really good cause. The art […]

Culled from Youtube: Beetle Bailey Episode 2 Halftrack’s Navy (1963) cartoons

Library of Archives Canada has acquired over 3000 original drawings, watercolors, textual material and photographs from For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston.From the press release:“This is a remarkable addition to our holdings. Lynn Johnston’s work is significant to Canadians. We recognize ourselves in her characters’ reaction to everyday life.”

Off the Mark cartoonist Mark Parisi has a new eBook out perfectly themed for cat-lovers. The book is entitled Cartoons Your Cat Doesn’t Want You to See. Even if you’re not a cat-lover, Mark’s an ace cartoonist.From the book: Mark uses his zany sense of humor to illuminate the mysteries of the feline species while […]

Another serial comic is changing hands. Long-time Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod is retiring and his assistant James Allen is taking over. The strip has been primarily guided by its creator Ed Dodd and Jack, but a lot of cartoonists have had a hand in the strip over the years including the great Jack Davis […]

Nice interview with Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder on MSNBC’s The Cycle.

Steve Breen posted the photo below on Facebook with the caption: “Renowned Irish singer and Bono.”In an email, he tells me that the Bono in the photo is an impersonator – a dead-ringer if you ask me.But Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, did meet a REAL celebrity. He writes on his blog that while touring […]