The Team Cul de Sac art will be auctioned off on May 27 and a few of the pieces are now on “display” on the Heritage Auction’s website. So far art on display include Cathy Guisewite, Mort Walker, Ron Ferdinand, Sergio Aragones, Karl Kesel, and Don Rosa with more to be added soon. Also on […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall is auctioning off 12 of his cartoon originals with all the proceeds going to the Sebastian Babin Education Fund. The fund was set up to raise money for Rex Babin’s son after Rex passed away last March. All the proceeds from this auction will be donated to a trust fund to […]
Glenn Fleishman writes a wonderful profile of Richard Thompson, his battle with Parkinsons Disease and the lastest news of hiring Stacy Curtis to do the inking. Thompson is the creator of Cul de Sac, a delightful daily comic strip that features the Otterloop family: Alice, Petey, Mom (Madeline), and Dad (Peter). There are dozens of […]
The Cartoonist Studio’s second annual “So Ya Wanna be a Cartoonists” has declared a winner. This year the winner goes to Greg Wallace, an illustrator and caricature artist, who’s feature Nothing is not Something bested over 125 other cartoonists over 10 weeks of voting by fans and professional cartoonists. As the winner, Greg’s feature will […]
Rudy Park writer Matt Richtel (aka Theron Heir) tells me he’s taking a year off and turning over the writing duties for Rudy Park to the strip’s artist Darrin Bell. Matt cites needing to take a break to focus on other matters such as his family, his reporting for The New York Times and his […]
Michael Cavna follows up from an earlier post regarding Candorville creator Darrin Bell’s cartoon about Trayvon Martin with another post about how readers reacted to the cartoon. Here’s a sample:While I frequently laugh out loud while reading the comics in The Washington Post, I don’t remember ever crying over them. But Friday’s strip [April 6] […]
Last month when the Scripps Howard Awards were announced, absent was the announcement for the Colleges M. Schulz Award for best college cartoonist. I’m told by the foundation that the category has been discontinued due to the lack of entries to merit its continuance.The award was first given in 1980 and several recipients have gone […]
Russ Cochran is set to print a new publication called The Sunday Funnies – a monthly 32 page, 22″x16″ comic section containing historical Sunday pages going back to 1895. Features will include Gasoline Alley, Little Nemo, Krazy Kat among others. The publication starts shipping in November.From Russ’ website:Each issue of THE SUNDAY FUNNIES will be […]
This week’s Edge City starts a three-week series dealing with the Holocaust. In the series, the family visits a local barber who was a holocaust surviver. In an interview with King Features, the strip’s co-creator Terry LaBan says that it’s a topic they’ve wanted to do before but until now, hadn’t found a way to […]
Fantastic news from the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. If you’ve not had the opportunity to visit the library and museum, it’s a near spiritual experience.Press release:The Ohio State University Libraries is thrilled to announce that The Hershey Foundation of Northeast Ohio has answered the Schulz Challenge with a multi-year grant […]
Tom Racine has a great interview with cartoonist, illustrator Stacy Curtis who has taken over inking Cul de Sac for Richard Thompson. I’ve always thought highly of Stacy, and after hearing his reasoning as to why he’s not signing his name to the Cul de Sac strip, my respect for him grew three fold.
Remember when I reported that Guy Endore-Kaiser proposed to his girlfriend in his comic, Brevity?. The happy couple were married Saturday evening and got a write up in the New York Times Weddings/Celebrity section.Congratulations to you both.
Andertoons creator Mark Anderson:I’m a cartoonist. I draw funny pictures with funny words that I send out into the world to earn my living. I love my job unquestioningly. That is until recently, when I ran across a TED Talk by Simon Sinek about how great leaders inspire action. Now, I am neither a great […]
I’ve mentioned it before that Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog is the official mascot for next week’s 3rd annual National Robotics Week April 7-15.King Features Syndicate has posted an interview about Jonathan’s involvement with the organization and the use of his feature characters for next week.Q. What inspired you to create a storyline based […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and legendary editorial cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”) were named by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in a list of “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” The full list is the who’s-who of A-list journalists and writers.