The Arizona Republic, which also happens to be the hometown paper for Baby Blues co-creator Rick Kirkman, interviewed him about the 20 years of Baby Blues and the new 20 year collection book BBXX: Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2. Q: How does the partnership work? A: The official titles are that Jerry is the […]
Mark Anderson, a cartoonist I consider one of the innovators in the field, has launched a subscription service for his cartoons. The service comes in two levels and offers unlimited access to his trove of cartoons. Mark contends that cartoons include in blog posts or on social media sites are more likely to be shared […]
The Norm creator Michael Jantze has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to cover legal expenses due to a suit he says is “frivilous”.From his fundraising site: Here’s what happened to me in a nutshell: I worked for free for someone for a year and now he claims I owe him money. Really? That’s […]
John Lotshaw is developing a comic strip and he’ll be chronicling the progress on the National Cartoonists Society’s blog. John writes:Over the course of the next few months, I will be developing a new comic, entitled Ray Blaster in Blazin’ Phazers. My starting point for this concept was the idea of “Thimble Theater in space” […]
This week Bondie character Dagwood is running for President of the United States.Blondie cartoonist Dean Young:“Because everybody is having such conflicted opinions about the Presidential candidates this year, we thought we’d have some fun in the comic strip and have Dagwood run for President. As we all know, the road to the White House can […]
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews M. Tom Inge about his new book “Will Eisner: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists).” From Amazon’s description: (Will Eisner: Conversations) collects the best interviews with Eisner (1917–2005) from 1965 to 2004. Taken together, the interviews cover the breadth of Eisner’s career with in-depth information about his creation of The […]
Paradise Valley AZ wants to honor Family Circus creator Bil Keane with a sculpture of the Family Circus characters. Bill was a resident of the town for over 50 years. Former Vice Mayor Mary Hamway is spearheading the project, which received backing on Thursday night from the Town Council. “This doesn’t belong anywhere else but […]
Things come in three, right? The Baby Blues guys Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have launched a blog. It has a good mix of content for fans as well as those interested in the inner-workings of a cartoonist. Betty Boop now has a website. She is, as the website says, “Queen of Cartoons, the First […]
Sheldon creator Dave Kellett took on the task of building a custom standing drafting table for himself after dealing with repetitive posture problems. Okay – so he designed it and his brother (a home builder) did the actual carpentry. The result is gorgeous. A lot of attention to detail.He has more photos of the original […]
On the heels of the announcement that comic strip character Heathcliff is being adapted to the big screen, Variety is reporting that Fox and Walden Media have hired Nichole Millard and Kathryn Price to adapt the comic strip Family Circus to a feature film. A Family Circus movie has been in development since 2010. The […]
Colin Druce-McFadden writes over at Dvice.com “16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world” So why did Google drudge up a name that most of us never knew? Same-day reporting mentioned that he was an animation pioneer, influenced Walt Disney, was a vaudevillian comedian and things of that nature. To my mind, this hardly […]
D.C. Parsons, a student cartoonist at The Daily Wildcat, has been fired and the student paper is apologizing after running a cartoon (during LGBT History Month) that depicts a father and son laughing at a derogatory joke. The cartoon depicts a father telling his son that if he ever comes out of the closet that […]
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub interviewed Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. The interview is void of Stephan’s typical ego-centric replies and gets to the heart of his work on the strip. Q: What’s a word you’d love to use in your strip but you can’t because it’s the comics page? A: “That sucks” […]
Rob Tornoe interviewed Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson about the decision to end the strip. Some of the answers are canned responses that I’ve seen else where. But a couple include new information. Now that you’ve created a bit of free time for yourself, do you have the strength to work on any personal […]
Awesome news for Baby Blues fans. A 20th anniversary treasury is due out next month. The collection, entitled “BBXX” contains “personal reflections and never-before-published essays, drawings, and photographs” along with almost 800 comics from the last two decades. The feature by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s won “Best Comic Strip of the Year” by the […]