Today King Features launches a new comic strip entitled Oh, Brother! by Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. and Emmy Award-winning creator of Secret Saturdays and Tutenstein Jay Stephens. Oh, Brother! is centered around a precocious younger brother, Bud, and a more sensible slightly older sister, Lily.From King’s announcement to their […]
Tom Racine has posted this week’s Tall Tale Radio podcast with special guest Jerry Scott. Jerry collaborates with Jim Borgman on the strip Zits and with Rick Kirkman on Baby Blues.Tom writes: Fresh off his National Cartoonist Society win for “Best Newspaper Strip 2010,” Jerry Scott of “Zits” (and “Baby Blues”) joins me to talk […]
A cross selection of cartoonists have founded a new website called “The Cartoonist Studio” as a way to show off their work environment (and their work) and eventually sell stuff. The eight cartoonists are: Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Greg Evans (Luanne), Peter Guren (Ask Shagg), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Rick […]
Golden Age Comic book stories blog has posted several (by several I mean “a lot”) of Krazy Kat strips. As always, worth the time.Hat tip to Tom Spurgeon.
Say that headline five times quickly!Comics Riff’s Michael Cavna has announced his comic contest has been whittled down to five. Finalists are: Hoxwinder Hall by Daniel Boris.Real Time by Bob ErskineForever Endeavor by Thomas MullanyStupid Inventor by Zachary SnyderImogen Quest by Olivia WalchThe final five now submit Sunday cartoons for a second round of voting […]
During the American Editorial Cartoonists Association convention, I had a wonderful opportunity to sit down and talk with Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist and Dick Tracy cartoonist Dick Locher. He had mentioned in an earlier panel a couple of upcoming milestones in his career: drawing 10,000 cartoons, 40 years with the Chicago Tribune (stared in 1972) […]
It’s All About You creator Tony Murphy has hit his goal to raise $5,500 for a coffee shop comic newspaper. As of this writing, he has raised $5,555. Tony writes on the project’s blog: A huge THANK YOU to all donors and everyone involved for e-mailing, posting, listserving, tweeting, facebooking, blogging, flogging, tagging, link-commenting, reminding, […]
Goats creator Jonathan Rosenberg has launched a new daily webcomic entitled Scenes From A Multiverse. Jonathan describes the strip as “what it’s like to live in a multiverse. Each day, Monday through Friday, we’ll visit another location somewhere in an ordinary, everyday multiverse and see how folks there live and play.”He’s also set up an […]
The headline sounds like a dive bar band from the deep south, but it’s really about a friendly challenge between two illustrators. Guy Francis challenged fellow illustrator Stacy Curtis to a duel of drawing pigs playing the banjo. Other illustrators have now contributed and Stacy has amassed a growing collection of over 70 drawings. You […]
Today launched a tribute site to the classic Dick Tracy comic strip. From the press release:Almost 80 years ago, a young cartoonist sent his latest idea to Captain Joseph Patterson, who selected all the comic strips for the Chicago Tribune and NY Daily News. Chester Gould had been submitting for some time, both realistic and […]
All About You creator Tony Murphy is raising money to create a weekly comic-strip broadsheet titled “Coffee Talk” to be distributed in coffee shops and cafes. As of tonight, he’s just shy of $1,800 (read back stories here and here). So he’s had 72 contributors that have raised $3,706.If you’re inclined to support Tony, head […]
Yesterday marked Hilary Price’s Rhymes with Orange turned 15. As she remarks on her blog – that’s 5,475 strips. As the 5,475th strip rolls off the presses, it?s time to thank all you readers who have taken the time to send me e-mail for Cialis at low low low prices. And, of course, the rest […]
Sherman’s Lagoon creator Jim Toomey will be featured in an exhibit of his work at the Aquarium of the Bay (San Francisco, CA) to raise awareness of shark finning. Shark finning is the practice of catching sharks, removing the fins and dumping the shark back into the water – often still alive. The fins are […]
Alumni from Saturday Night Live of years past have launched a video comic strip series called “Beyond the Comics” which is aimed at online newspapers across the US. The feature launched today in seven papers. To achieve financial viability, the feature needs to sign up 200-500 papers. The participants include David Spade, Molly Shannon, Sarah […]
King Feature Syndicate’s DailyINK debuted nine vintage comics to their online comic portal. The new features include: Big Ben Bolt (1950-51), Heart of Juliet Jones (1953-54), Radio Patrol (1940-41), Barney Google & Snuffy Smith (1936), Jacky?s Diary (1959-60), Mandrake (1938-39), Quicy (1971-72), Katzenjammer Kids (1937-39) and Little Iodine (1949-50).