Charles Schulz owned a home Minneapolis for three years (1955 to 1958). For the first time in 50 years, that home is up for sale. The St. Paul Business Journal reports that aside from two wall murals painted by Sparky (which will be removed), there’s very little evidence that the 4,500 square foot home was […]
A big thanks goes out to Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. GagCartoons.com is an online platform that allows cartoonist to upload their backlog of published and unpublished gag cartoons that Greg promotes, markets and licenses them for you. You focus on being a great cartoonist, he focuses on selling […]
Great news for Gil fans (at least those who read The Providence Sunday Journal). After Gil creator Norm Feuti retired the strip, the Journal received “outcries from hundreds of readers” and reached out to Norm to see if he’d continue to create the strip for them. The result is a weekly installment of Gil that […]
Tom Richmond, President of the National Cartoonists Society, has posted a letter to the New York Post regarding their decision to drop their comics page. Full letter below: Dear New York Post, It is with great disappointment, and no small amount of confusion, that I learned of the New York Post?s recent decision to entirely […]
I’ve had a couple of reports and seen some tweets saying that the New York Post has eliminated their comics page – their entire page that ran anywhere from 7-9 comics. I haven’t seen any official articles from the Post explaining their decision. If anyone knows what’s going on, please send me a link.Update: Jim […]
Jim Borgman has posted several early sketches and brainstorms of Zits that he co-created with Jerry Scott. Among the revelations – Zits was almost named:
KC Business magazine has named Andrews McMeel (parent company of Universal Uclick) the coolest office in Kansas City. They have a great write-up with lots of photos. Unfortunately, you have to read it through a magazine reader site. Here’s the link. Skip to page 18.
Dick Ayers, one of the “giants of the Marvel Age of Comics”, has passed at the age of 90. Michael Cavna has a great report on his life:DICK AYERS liked to laugh at the idea of a Marvel ?Bullpen? ? that would-be physical collective of cartoonists that, readers were led to imagine, happily churned out […]
I have in my hot little hands a copy of Richard Thompson’s The Complete Cul de Sac. Let me just get the negative stuff out of the way up front.Looking at this box set, I can’t help but feel a bit cheated that there are only two volumes. It’s not that anyone cut corners or […]
Kenosha Festival of Cartooning organizer Anne Hambrock has announced that the National Cartoonists Society Foundation has made a generous grant to the festival which, in addition to the successful Indiegogo campaign, covers 95% of the anticipated expenses.The foundation will specifically sponsor the charity auction on September 27. Proceeds for that auction will go to the […]
I saw this story in a few places yesterday, but enjoyed the NPR story best. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has a new memoir about her experience as the sole caretaker for her aging parents entitled Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir.Below is the NPR audio story and here’s the written version […]
This week’s sponsor is Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com. GagCartoons.com is an online platform where you, the friendly (or not) cartoonist can upload your thousands of gag cartoons that are unsold or gathering dust and let Greg promote, market and license them. He’ll even cut you a check for those cartoons that sell. Yes, he’s one […]
Jumble, the word puzzle with a cartoon, by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek is now a mobile app called Just Jumble. In Jumble, players must unscramble a set of letters and solve the puzzle from clues in Jeff’s cartoon. The app is free and available for iOS devices with Android, Nook coming soon. See […]
Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald has won this year’s International Editorial Cartoon Competition of the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom. Second and third place winners were Pierre Brignaud, and Rodrigo de Matos.Clay Bennett, in addition to being a nominee for this year’s NCS divisional award for editorial cartooning, was honored with Cartooning with […]
From The Verge:Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app is solely a comic book reader, which means that you’ll have to visit the company’s website to purchase new comics. You can browse comics in the new app and download free comics […]