From Columbia University: Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two significant additions to its Comics and Graphic Novels collections: research materials for Larry Tye’s well-received 2012 book, Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Superhero, as well as six 1940’s Batman scripts from the estate […]
From the Daily Mail: The actor who portrayed the voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts television shows has appeared in court charged with stalking his former girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he apparently didn’t like. Shackled in chains, Peter Robbins pleaded not guilty at the San Diego Superior Court […]
Earlier last year, the Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Kho, president of operations and business development, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to eliminate ads from their website. One of the stretch goals was to create a strip search contest to find a worthy up-and-coming cartoonist. The contest, which […]
Soup to Nutz creator Rick Stromoski has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of a second printed collection of his strip. The book will be 124 pages of his favorite dailies and Sundays from the fourth through sixth year of the feature’s run. Rick’s project needs $8,500 and just two days into it […]
From the Treetops Tattler’s own Perfesser Cosmo Fishhawk (AKA Michael Cleverly, Chris’s oldest friend):Artist, cartoonist, writer, photographer, Chris Cassatt was sane?.pretty much. He reached the milestone of helming the nationally syndicated comic strip ?SHOE? for one thousand weeks (almost 13 years) in February of 2012, and at that time mental health professionals declared Cassatt to […]
Gary Brookins has worked with Chris Cassatt for 15 years on Jeff MacNelly’s Pluggers panel cartoon and then later on Shoe. I asked him his thoughts on the passing of his friend and colleague.Gary writes:When Jeff turned ?Pluggers? over to me in 1997, he put me in touch with Chris via telephone. Thus began a […]
Chris Cassatt, who became Jeff MacNelly’s assistant in 1993 on the comic strip Shoe has passed away after battling cancer. Chris was introduced to Jeff through Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters and thus began a collaboration that lasted until Jeff’s passing in 2000. Chris was instrumental in helping Jeff use computers to streamline […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator and editorial cartoonist Mike Peters is heading back home to St. Louis in February to lead the Soulard Mardi Gras parade as their grand marshall.Mike, quoted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” “I’m glad it doesn’t take too much” skill to be marshal, Peters said. “I think all you have to […]
The third Success in the World of Comics Seminar being held in Annapolis, MD is drawing closer. The seminar is slated for February 16 & 17. Tundra creator Chad Carpenter and business partner Bill Kellogg do a great job hosting this informative event. If you’re interested in the business side of cartooning, this is the […]
The family of Jerry Robinson, creator of Batman characters The Joker and Robin has donated 60 pieces of original cartoon art to the Cartoon Art Museum. Most pieces are art from other famous cartoonists such as George Herriman, Bud Fisher, Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly and Winsor McCay. From SFWeekly: The donation largely consists of comic […]
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals ruled that Warner Bros owns the Superman character and that a 2001 agreement between Warner Bros and the heirs of Jerry Siegel is legit giving the heirs 50% share of Superman.From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The ruling Thursday trumps a 2008 trial court decision ordering […]
Axe Cop, the webcomic written by brothers Malachai Nicolle (age 5 when the webcomic was launched) and Ethan Nicolle (age 28 when launched) will debut on Fox’s Adult Swim-style Saturday-night on July 27. This is a Halloween themed teaser released last fall.
The fine folks over at The Cartoonist Studio have announced a third “So Ya Wanna Be A Cartoonist” contest. The 10-week contest is slated to launch by February 11. The contest prize has a financial award to the winner and a chance to be mentored by professional cartoonist in the studio who will also help […]
Tall Tale Radio comic podcaster Tom Racine is now on GoComics.com. His guest for the first podcast on GoComics is Mark Tatulli, creator of Heart of the City and Lio. Past podcast interviews are still located on talltaleradio.com.
The National Cartoonists Society has expanded the criteria for the new Online Comics Division Award that was introduced last year. The change splits the award into two categories – long form (think online comic books or graphic novels) and short form comics (think comic strips, panels). As they did last year, a panel will evaluate […]