Mark Stokes has posted another gem – this time a copy of a Peanuts panel by Charles Schulz that reveals his original pencil work. You can see how often he rearranged Charlie Brown and Luci to get the composition where he wanted them. Going through the process of developing a panel for a strip can […]
The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio are telling me that they will hold the second annual “So You Wanna Be a Cartoonist” contest. Details are still being hammered out, but what I do know is that the contest will start in January and that Universal Uclick will co-sponsor the contest. Some changes to […]
The Geek Out blog over on CNN takes up the topic on the rarity of women in the comics business. There are less women self-publishing or working on independent comics, which makes it harder for DC or Marvel to find female creators that can deliver quality work in a decent time frame. Asselin said having […]
Patrick McDonnell will again use his strip to raise awareness for National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week November 6-12. His strip will feature “Shelter Stories” about people who foster shelter animals.
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis’ new collection Larry in Wonderland: A Pearls Before Swine Collection debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the Paperback Graphic Books category at number one. This week it’s still a ranking title at number three. Book is 128 pages and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Rob Tornoe interviews Creators Syndicate President and Chief Operations Officer Jack Newcombe as he takes the reins of the syndicate started by his father Rick.How do you measure the success of these new features? By the checks that go out to the creators. Every single one comes across my desk and if it?s a number […]
Interesting idea being executed by Six Chix Stephanie Piro:I’ve said before how much I LOVE Halloween. We have a lot to celebrate with scary movies, Halloween cartoons and I’ll be doing a Halloween Cartoon Club on Monday at the library. This week I was invited by a cartoon group called the Trees and Hills Cartoonist […]
Brendan Bufford and Norm Feuti have posted another installment covering the road to syndication for Norm’s Gil strip. Today they cover the drawing and inking process.My other strip, RETAIL, is created the same way, with two exceptions. I use a computer font to create the lettering for RETAIL, and I use a halftone fill for […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviews Jerry Craft, creator of Momma’s Boyz, about his comic and his new book Mama’s Boyz: Home Schoolin, Because Learning Shouldn’t Stop at 3 O’clock!First let me thank you for taking time to do this interview. You have a very vibrant and fun illustration style. Where did the style for Mama’s Boyz […]
From the Daily Caller:President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is asking artists to design promotional posters that convey a message: “support American jobs.” The brutal irony for artists, however, is that they will receive no payment for their work. The campaign, which has $61 million on hand, will reward only the three artists whose work is […]
Randy Glasbergen, one of the most prolific cartoonist in America, has signed a contract with the Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion to provide weekly cartoons for their Sunday magazine. The single-panel cartoons will be on a variety of subjects and will begin appearing in December. The cartoons will be translated by the newspaper.
From Contactmusic.com:Typical of the fury ignited by the movie, Nicholas Lezard, the literary critic for Britain’s Guardian newspaper, said that when he left the theater showing the Tintin film, he founding himself “too stunned and sickened to speak; for I had been obliged to watch two hours of literally senseless violence being perpetrated on something […]
Several cartoonists will be featured in the Library of Congress’ new exhibit “Timely and Timeless” opening on September 15. Artist listed on the website include James Gillray and Honoré Daumier, as well as modern and contemporary creators such as Jazz Age cartoonist John Held, Jr.; African American artist Oliver Wendell Harrington; New Yorker cartoonists Charles […]
I mentioned this before, but now I’ve received the official press release. On November 12 the Savanna College of Art and Design and the Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will present a panel discussion entitled, “A SCAD, MAD, MAD, MAD Discussion” featuring famed MAD Magazine cartoonists: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., […]
Zombie Boy creator Mark Stokes found a rejection note sent to Marmaduke creator Brad Anderson around 1958 by an unknown syndicate editor. See Mark’s site for the photo of the note which reads, “This one is a preposterous as the one showing Marmaduke sitting in the barber’s chair, remember? I just can’t buy this one!”From […]