Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 […]
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific […]
With eBooks now outselling paper books, it’s not a surprise that the ever vigilant businessman/cartoonist Jim Davis is now offering his Garfield collections as eBooks through Random House Publishing.His first two collections Garfield at Large and Garfield Gains Weight and his latest collection Garfield Brings Home the Bacon are now available and Random House will […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]
Two weeks ago Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis launched an iPad app called Only The Pearls – a 250 best of collection with audio commentary, interactive features and 22 videos of Stephan acting like an egotistical “ass#%$*” (his description, not mine. Okay, maybe I inserted the word egotistical). There’s something troubling about the app […]
Comic historian Bob Harvey takes a look at the history of the serial comic strip Mary Worth. The version of history that inspires this diatribe claims that Martha Orr, a niece of Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Carey Orr, started the comic strip that has always been dubbed the first soap opera strip. But she didn’t […]
The Success in Comics Seminar is now less than a month away. The Tundra guys, Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, have produced a little promo video:
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) has interviewed Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. BILL GRIFFITH audio excerpt: “I’m sure somebody will be offended, which will be nice-to still offend somebody after all these years. People who only know Zippy comics through King Features will probably be surprised to see that Zippy was more […]
Heritage Auction will be auctioning off several highly prized pieces of comic art next month including on original Calvin & Hobbes cover art for Bill Watterson’s 1989-1990 18-month calendar that is expected to fetch more than $50,000. Due to Watterson’s reclusiveness and that he kept most of his artwork to himself, the few originals that […]
Jim Borgman has posted a write-up of what Zits looks like outside North America. Not acne, but the comic strip which is often renamed, recolored and republished in different formats in 27 countries and 15 different languages.Jim writes:The Zits foreign book publishing program has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But from […]
Anne Hambrock has reposted an excellent article detailing how she and her husband John went about self publishing their first collection of his strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. She mentions that they’re not selling the book on Amazon and offers this as one of the reasons:Which is when I realized that we had […]
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Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be releasing the first volume of a Complete Funky Winkerbean collection this year. The collection is being released to coincide with the feature’s 40th anniversary. The first volume will contain cartoons from the years 1972-1974. At the time Tom was a jr. high school art teacher and the carton […]
Three minute video with Garfield creator Jim Davis talking about his early formula for creating the now world famous cat.Via Mike Lynch
The Bangor Daily News interviews Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about his life in Kennebunkport, ME and his views on editors pulling comics. “Editors are word people. A cartoon is an abstract,” he said. “Today [editors] seem to be so much more afraid of a quote offending anybody that their first reaction is to err […]