Filed under: Comic Strips

Scott Coen profiles Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price for WGGB. Here’s the video interview:

Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo has written that for the next story-line in her webcomic Velia, Dear, she’s experimenting with starting a story-line with no end in mind.What am I getting at? It?s this ? the next story line is one that I am writing without a clear end in mind. This is a very […]

Ger Apeldoorn has posted a considerable collection of Bil Keane’s other feature Channel Chuckles that ran from 1954 through 1976 (Family Circus launched in 1960). Here’s Ger explaining Channel Chuckles: Like Family Circle it was a daily cartoon series with a larger selection of gags on the Sunday. Keane kept this going for almost 20 […]

The National Constitution Center featured Family Circus creator Bil Keane in their exhibit “Art of the American Soldier.” They’ve now posted video of an interview they did about his work during his time in the Army in World War II. Part I Interview with Bil Keane, Part 1 from National Constitution Center on Vimeo.Part II […]

From Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis:I was lucky enough to spend time with him on a couple of occasions, even interview him at his house for the Charles Schulz Museum. When I was there, we talked about the parodies I did of the Family Circus. He told me he didn’t mind them at all. […]

Bil Keane, the creator of the iconic Family Circus comic panel has passed away at age 89. He was born in Philadelphia in 1922 and according to his bio on his website he was a self taught artist. After WWII, he worked as a staff artist at the Philadelphia Bulletin for 15 years and created […]

Great news for Scary Gary creator Mark Buford. His strip was optioned by Jack Black’s production company, Electric Dynamite, and William Morris Entertainment to create a television series based on the strip. As many of you know getting optioned is the first step. A draft pilot episode will be written and then the episode will […]

OB Rag (Ocean Beach, CA) interviews La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz. A couple of things I didn’t know about Lalo: He has a weekly radio program in L.A. and is a faculty member at Otis College of Art & Design.Al Carlos interviews Lalo about his beginnings and how his cartooning focus has changed over the […]

The Farley Foundation is a Canadian charity that helps raise money for Veterinarians to provide services for animals of lower income individuals. Lynn Johnston’s Farley character has been the mascot since 2001. Here’s a video of Lynn explaining her involvement and the Farley plush toy.I want one of those plush Farleys! If you do too, […]

GoComics.com announces that starting tomorrow the Pibgorn “Mozart and the Demon Lover” story-line will kick off but will include Brooke McEldowney’s running commentary. Think of it as the director’s notes on a DVD extra.

If you haven’t made it a weekly read, I encourage you to bookmark and visit the Gil “Road to Syndication” blog maintained by King Features editor Brendan Burford and Gil (and Retail) creator Norm Feuti. This week they’re talking about how to take a rough character (Gil’s father) that worked well on the web and […]

I found a couple changes for this week:The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is now the guest cartoonist in the Seattle Times. Dustin has replaced Peanuts in a paper that belongs to the KPC News chain in Indiana. It’s hard to tell from the joint news site, so Dustin is in one or more of […]

Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot is on her way to Haiti to join 450 other volunteers for Habitat for Humanity. The group plans to build 100 homes in Leogane. Due to lack of internet, she plans to tweet her experiences. I’m posting her initial ones below (most recent to older tweets):This build is on land […]

ABTech profiles one of their alum, Chris Sparks, who is leading the Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkinsons Disease research. The Cul de Sac project solicited original art from notable cartoonists to be auctioned off as well as sell a book collection of the art that is due out next spring.In […]

The Daily Herald profiles editorial cartoonist and former Dick Tracy cartoonist Dick Locher.Locher said Sunday that after working so long in newspapers, it pains him to see the industry in so much trouble today, especially when it comes to political cartoonists. “It won’t stay that way,” he said, adding that “a smart editor somewhere will […]