The Chicago Tribune profiled editorial cartoonist Dick Locher and his career behind the iconic Dick Tracy comic strip.“Never show him slumping, never show him blue, never show him depressed and never show him defeated,” said Dick Locher, who spent 32 years drawing the world’s most famous gumshoe. “He’s in charge. People expect that.” … Dick […]
Yesterday I wrote that attorney’s representing Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk sent a cease and desist letter to WordPress.com asking for them to remove two blogs that allegedly infringed on Tom’s intellectual property. WordPress.com shutdown the blogs and the blog author has since moved his blog to a private server and removed the Funky Winkerbean […]
The Wilton Patch profiles Hi and Lois cartoonist Chance Browne and his non-cartooning interests – namely playing in a band named Chance Browne and Friends where he plays guitar. They play tonight in Georgetown, CT.Moving first to Cambridge then to Burlington, Vermont in the late 1970s, Browne broadened his artistic scope as a graphic illustrator, […]
Just noticed Dan Piraro’s blog has moved to its own domain bizarrocomics.com. He used to host it on Blogger.Welcome to my first post on my new blog site. There are lots of posts before this, but they were imported from my previous blog site by a genius Interwebs guru. Now that I’m trying to take […]
The nice people over at the Johnny Hart Studios mention that this week is not only Johnny Hart’s birthday, but also the anniversary of the launch of B.C (February 17th, 1958). Johnny’s birthday was the 18th. To commemorate, they’ve posted early samples of the icon strip.
WordPress.com received a cease and desist letter from attorney’s representing Funky Winkerbean and Crank Shaft creator Tom Batiuk demanding they remove two blogs: sonofstuckfunky.wordpress.com and stuckfunky.wordpress.com for violations of “unauthorized use of the Funky Winkerbean name, trademark, or comic strips.” The site was a daily commentary blog – similar to Comics Curmudgeon – that focused […]
This year’s Glyph Comic Award nominees have been announced. Winners will announced at the 2011 Glyph Comics Awards ceremony held in conjunction with the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) on May 20.Story of the Year Afrodisiac; Jim Rugg, co-writer and artist; Brian Maruca, co-writer BB Wolf and the 3 LPs; JD Arnold, […]
A couple more milestone to report. Gary Tyrrell reports over on Fleen that Brad Guigar’s Evil, Inc is now in it’s 11th year.Richard Thompson reports that his Cul de Sac feature is seven years old now . It first launched as a weekly feature in the Washington Post on Valentines Day in 2004. The feature […]
NPR reports that graphic novelist and The New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine created a comic to give to his wedding guest. When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors: a customized chocolate bar? A personalized mug? Then Brennan had an idea. Tomine is […]
Politifact.com decides to fact check Sunday’s Doonesbury strip that claims since 9/11 “270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.”We began by contacting Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who has drawn Doonesbury for more than four decades. He got back immediately with a summary of his methodology. “The final figure lacks precision, because it’s extrapolated,” Trudeau […]
Last month I wrote that Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, was going to be on Writers Talk. That program is now online. For those in the Ohio area you can see it on the big screen (your TV) on February 24 @ 4 pm. For the rest of us, we’ll have to settle for the […]
A reader of the Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) took issue with a story-line in Mike Peter’s Mother Goose and Grimm regarding a Chernobyl Amusement Park. The story line ran February 8 through the 12th. The reader writes: Today, in 2011, the statistics and the continued nuclear radiation poisoning from the disaster will continue to […]
Today marks the end of Stephanie Piro’s Valentine’s Day Countdown which she started at the first of the month.
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is running an exhibit of Berkeley Breathed’s work entitled “From Bloom County to Mars: The Imagination of Berkeley Breathed.” Along with the exhibit, the museum and IDW (who published the Bloom County: The Complete Collection) will be printing a limited edition, 96-page catalog featuring original artwork from Bloom […]
Chad Carpenter, the creator of Tundra sent this report to me. It was first posted on his Facebook fan club page. I first saw Tundra when my local paper The Standard Examiner bumped Bound and Gagged to make space. I’ve since learned that The Examiner was the first paper outside of Alaska to pick up […]