During a comic festival in Brussels, a scaled up reproduction of a Tintin adventure was created on the Brussels Grand Place. It measures 672 square meters (7,233 square feet). The article doesn’t mention if the feat was to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World records. The current record holder is a team in […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith is the subject of a documentary entitled “The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Changing Face of Comics.” Unfortunately the movie is only showing at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio next Friday the 22nd. Here is the trailer. Hopefully it will be made available for purchase on […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy, the creator of Between Friends, has created a three day story-line to promote breast cancer screenings for the Canadian Cancer Society to coincide with Mother’s Day. The strips were also given voice and animation for the Thingamaboob.ca web site. When I was approached to help out with this campaign, I was excited for […]
INDenverTimes.com, the new online venture by former Rocky Mountain News staffers, has added a comic section to their website “in response to overwhelming reader requests.” The news site added 39 comics using what appears to be Creator’s Rev Up comic service.
» Tundra has been picked up by the News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) replacing F-Minus.» Over in RACs, a Philadelphia reader noted that the Philadelphia Inquirer added a page to their Sunday comics after readers complained that an earlier reduction in the size of the strips made them unreadable.» Also from RACs, D.D.Degg notes that The […]
There is no shortage of general news about the Amazon Kindle DX, and the potential for comic distribution has already become a hot topic onto itself.
Children’s Books» Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell has a new book coming out this fall called “Wag.” The book is based on the characters in his comics strip. It’s due out in October.Editorial Cartooning» Steve Greenberg, taking a page from the Milt Priggee playbook, is now doing editorial cartoons for the news blog LA Observed.Ted Rall […]
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot will be swinging a hammer this Saturday for a Habitat for Humanity project in the North Willamette Valley area. The effort is part of the National Women Build Week going on this week.“I have long been inspired by the great work done by Habitat for Humanity,” Jan said. “But being […]
Daryl Cagle recently added more “Web 2.0” features on his site including RSS feeds, sharing to other social media sites, favorites, email and a big one: allowing visitors to embed the cartoon on their blog or website – a feature Comics.com recently added with their redesign last fall.Daryl writes about the difficult decision on whether […]
» Toby, Robot Satan has been cut from the NYC and Boston Metro papers to cut costs or someone put the fear of God in them.» The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA) has reduced the paper’s width which actually created more room on their comics page. They brought Dilbert back from the business section and […]
Eight cartoonists, Jef Mallett (Frazz), Bill Amend (Fox Trot), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats, Buzz Beamer), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Jack Davis (Mad magazine), Michael Ramirez (editorial cartoonist for Investors Business Daily, Rob Smith Jr. (editorial cartoonist for Glen Beck) and Jeff Bacon (cartoonist for Navy Times and Marine Corps Times) recently visited wounded troops […]
Alt Comics» Slowpoke creator Jen Sorensen is profiled in the Washington Post. Children’s Books» Jules Feiffer spoke at Katonah Museum of Art to promote the second book that he collaborated on with his daughter Kate. The book is entitled “Which Puppy.”College Cartooning» Chris Sharron who cartoons for the Daily Kent Stater was named one of […]
The latest Funky Winkerbean story-line is taking widowed character Les into a bi-racial relationship. Les lost Lisa to cancer a couple of years ago in a multi-month story-arc that sparked a national dialog on the appropriateness of death on the comics page. So far, the inter-racial story-line hasn’t generated much discussion aside from a blurb […]
» The Worcester Telegram & Gazette replaced Tokyopop’s Undertown with Frazz.» Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, M.D. and Mutts are dropped from the Herald-Tribune’s comics pages as of today. Dilbert was moved to the Business section and joining the line-up are Non Sequitur and Bliss.» Pharos Tribune (Logansport, IN) has picked up Get Fuzzy daily as […]
Les McClaine’s adventure comic Jonny Crossbones can only be described as a reincarnation of Tintin. The staggeringly accurate, yet stylized figure drawing contrasts perfectly with the constantly overwhelming landscapes to create a world that will suck you in immediately. Starting today, May 4, Johnny Crossbones is accelerating from a M-W-F schedule to full-on, five-times-a-week until […]