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NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond gives a play by play of using the new MAD Magazine iPad app. As usual, when Tom gives a review of a product, it’s quite detailed.

Michael Heaton of The Plain Dealer interviews Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the 40 year anniversary of his feature.Is there one story line that stands out in your mind? That would be “Lisa’s Story.” I sometimes will go back and read that book and wonder who wrote it. How do you respond to those […]

Former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has launched a comic on GoComics with Jerry Resler, a retired editor and reporter for the Sentinel. The feature is called Gray Matters.On Stuart’s blog, he described the feature as:“Gray matters” follows the life and foibles of Elmer “Gray” Grayson and his family, friends and co-workers. Gray […]

The Knight Life creator Keith Knight is planning on creating his first graphic novel of his teen years as a Michael Jackson impersonator. Visit his Kickstarter page to learn more. He’s almost funded with only three days left.

The NY Post reports that the addictive Angry Birds game is coming to television as animated 3 minute shorts. No news on where on television, but the strategy is to produce the shorts for tv, and mobile devices. ” ‘Angry Birds’ is not just about the gameplay, and will be in the future less and […]

I’m looking forward to this one.

According to Guinness World Records, the book title with the longest title goes to an Indian author who wrote a book on the idiosyncracies of the English language. The book title was 5,633 characters. Coming in second place has to be Stephan’s new book Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left […]

King Features comic editor Brendan Burford announced that yesterday was Prince Valiant artist Gary Gianni last strip and that Thomas Yeates will no draw the iconic classic feature.Mark Schultz will continue to pen the series.Correction: The headline when originally posted stated that Mark Schultz was the new artist. Headline has been corrected.

A couple of news stories from The Student Life (Washington University independent paper) regarding the announcement that Mother Goose and Grimm and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be this year’s commencement speaker. The first story is about how Mike wasn’t the model student while at the university.“I was doing posters for the […]

Sample pages look great. Due out in May.

MAD Magazine cartoonist and NCS President Tom Richmond writes on this blog that MAD Magazine is now an iPad app.Today DC Entertainment and MAD Magazine announced the planned release of a new MAD Magazine iPad app complete with interactive features and exclusive content. The app is scheduled to be released on April Fool’s Day (Alfred […]

The LA Times has profiled Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce about his success with his strip and his friendship with Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney.From the LA Times:“Big Nate is almost two separate entities,” said Peirce, 49, who started the comic strip in 1991 to amuse himself. The strip, about a spirited […]

Mother Goose and Grimm creator and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be the 2012 commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis in May. Mike graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.“It is a great honor to have one of our most distinguished graduates serve as […]

The Raleigh News & Observer has announced that it is dropping nine features – a reversal of a decision made in 2008 to expand their comic offerings due to overwhelming reader demand. Back in 2008, the features editor at the time, Thad Ogburn, ran a poll after cutting three strips, but after receiving nearly 8,000 […]

Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander has announced that after 33 years she’s retiring her strip in newspapers, but will continue to post relevant strips from her archive on her blog.From her blog:After the Chicago Tribune dropped Sylvia, my income was cut by half and Sylvia disappeared from my hometown. I felt the loss. I decided that […]