Barney Google and Snuffy Smith didn’t fair to well in a recent reader poll in the Knoxville The News Sentinel and the editors opted to cut it. The Barney Google and Snuffy Smith fans were loud enough to cause the editors to reinstate it. John Rose, the current cartoonist for the strip, decided to take […]
Australia’s longest-running comic strip, Ginger Meggs, will be commermorating its 90th anniversary this November with a new silver Australian coin that features Ginger Meggs one side and Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse of the coin. The coin is 1oz pure silver. Jason Chatfield is the current and fifth cartoonist to work on the feature […]
The newly minted Dick Tracy cartoonists Joe Staton and Mike Curtis were honored by the Tennessee Senate through a resolution recognizing their professional accomplishments. Here is the full resolution (pdf download here). A RESOLUTION congratulating Joe Staton and Mike Curtis on their professional accomplishments. WHEREAS, from time to time, the members of this General Assembly […]
This can’t be good.Once upon a time, a newspaper cut comic strips knowing it could be unleashing the hounds by way of calls and letters from readers angered by a disruption of cherished routines. But this far, the Post hasn’t been deluged after cutting a baker’s dozen of strips, including iconic favorites like Doonesbury and […]
Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood is profiled on Wired.com about his feature that went into syndication in January. GD: Where does your character(s) come from? Have you been doodling Bleeker sketches since childhood? JM: I?ve been drawing comics since I was a kid but I created Bleeker and launched him online about 5 […]
Bob Harvey has a great interview with Jim Davis regarding his career doing Garfield. Bob provides a lot of insight into the PAWS Inc. organization and Jim’s role in his empire. Garfield appeared in papers 33 years ago last week.As the Garfield empire grew, more and more of Davis’ time was devoted to the multiplicity […]
Creating Frank Cho’s World has won a Emmy Award (National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter) in the Arts/Entertainment – News Story Category. The documentary covered the creation of the Washington Post Magazine cover. The documentary was Alexandra Garcia and Benedict de la Cruz from the Washington Post. You can see video of the process on the […]
Newspaper tend to run polls when replacing comics. The more vocal newspaper editor critics opine that editors should grow a spine and pick the comics themselves. It appears that the editors at The Herald did just that. They picked up Cul de Sac to replacd 9 Chickweed Lane. While I have no strong feelings for […]
The Denver Post has again reduced their comic line-up in order to “lower costs”. The announcement on their website didn’t list those that were eliminated, but an email from a frequent reader of this blog listed 12 features. Those features reportedly include: Rhymes with Orange F Minus, Bizarro, Doonesbury, Frazz, Brevity, Heart of the City, […]
The Saturday Evening Post’s Diana Denny profiles Randy GlasbergenThere’s always someone around the corner ready to make a liar out of you. I’ve recently told you how hard it is to be a cartoonist. Except for Randy Glasbergen, who sold his first cartoons to the The Saturday Evening Post while still in high school.Excellent selection […]
The Doozies creator Tom Gammill produces another great Learn to Draw. In this episode, Tom visits Arnold Roth and his wife Caroline in New York City. This was originally debuted at the NCS Reuben Award weekend.If you’re not familiar with Tom’s Learn to Draw series, get a cup of your favorite beverage and sit back […]
John Glynn over at Universal Uclick posted news that this week Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap is drawing the Adam@Home comic and Corey Pandolph The Elderberries/Toby Robot Satan/Barkeater Lake is doing this Sunday’s strip after Rob Harrell broke his foot at during the Reuben Awards weekend and the recovery involved heavy pain killers rendering him […]
Franklin Fibbs co-creator Wes Hargis is another cartoonist with art in the iTunes App Store. Wes illustrated Weird Al’s When I Grow Up book and did the artwork for the accompanying iPhone/iPod app.Over on the Three Men in a Tub blog, he’s posted some of the art that didn’t make it into the app. You […]
Earlier I linked to another mashup-up site taking Peanuts characters and matching them with tweets. Tumblr, the hosting company for the mashup received a letter from Iconix Brand Group who holds the copyright for Charles Schulz creation, ordering the company to take down the site because it violated copyright. Tumblr removed the site.T. Jason Agnello, […]
Here are the results of the survey that ran last Thursday. Here in 2011 – nearly a decade and a half after newspaper’s began putting content on line for free – the results aren’t that surprising.In my household, we subscribe to a paper (I started the subscription the day the Rocky Mountain News closed), but […]