» Comic Book Resources posted their last profile of historic editorial cartoonists. Go read about Art Young.» Karen Montague-Reyes has posted the last two “road to syndication” articles on her blog. Part 3 and part 4.» The Aaugh blog notes that the latest Complete Peanuts volume (vol. 11) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972“>is now available for […]
In addition to the announcements from the syndicates as to what features newspapers were picking to replace the outgoing Opus, the following papers have announced their changes:The Tulsa World has picked up Mutts to run in the Sunday only slot vacated by Opus.The Sacramento Bee is going to trial run Secret Asian Man and Candorville […]
Berkeley Breathed’s final Opus appeared today. The comic that appeared in newspapers directed readers to the Humane Society’s web site to see the final panel which depicted Opus in children’s storybook, “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. Berkeley’s own web site appeared to be struggling under the traffic load. Berkeley reports on his website that […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Slapstick Magazine, a periodical for published for comedians, comedy writers, comedy club fans, etc, recently interviewed Randy Glasbergen about his prolific career as a cartoonist and specifically about his weekly feature “Thin Lines” that is syndicated through Creators.4. How long have you been illustrating characters? I began my career in 1972 while I was in […]
Next Wednesday, the day after the presidential election, Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury will depict a newscaster declaring presidential candidate Barack Obama as the winner of this year’s election. This has many editors in a journalistic bind because they’ll be printing their comics pages before the actual presidential results have been finalized. If presidential nominee John McCain […]
Comic Book Resources interviewed Retail creator Norm Feuti about his feature that was launched by King Features in 2006 and his book “Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook” a parody manual on how to survive a retail job. You have two blogs, one which is yours and then another is in the voice of […]
Charles Brubaker has posted an interview he conducted with Kevin McCormick who did the Arnold comic that ran for six years between 1982 to 1988. Do you still come across people that remembers your strip? Itâ??s weird but every once in a while someone will track me down and send me an email. The local […]
Maintaining cartoonist Nick Creekmore will have some of his cartoons included an art exhibit exploring subjects of the male identity. The Exhibit opens in Nashville, TN at the Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery with an opening reception on October 30. Exhibit runs through November 26.North Central College’s new Schoenherr Art Gallery will feature an exhibit […]
GoComics has announced that they have added Kim Casali and Bill Asprey’s classic Love Is, Harry Bliss’ Bliss comic panel and Bill Whitehead’s Free Range to their line-up of online offerings. Love Is… and Bliss are TMS features and Free Range is syndicated through Creators.
» The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it’s cutting all of its daily editions and focusing on a weekend edition and their web site. I haven’t asked Clay Bennett, their former editorial cartoonist, but I can imagine him thinking his jump to the Chattanooga Times Free Press as being the best move. Ever.» Comic […]
The Montclair State University (NJ) college newspaper has issued an apology for running The K Chronicles strip that used a racial epithet. The Keith Knight cartoon shows a woman going door to door asking people who they’ll vote for and the resident responds with the epithet. The editor, while apologizing for running the cartoon that […]
With Opus heading into the sunset, some papers are starting to announce their replacement choices. You can see my earlier story on which papers have picked up the feature. Adding to that list include:Flint (MI) Journal – Get Fuzzy, Champaign (IL) News-Gazette and Akron Beacon-Journal – Pearls Before Swine and the Albuquerque Journal is picking […]
» Comic Book Resources continues highlighting historical editorial cartoonists: Homer Davenport and John “HB” Doyle» Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley will be giving a presentation at Idaho State University on November 7 on the topic of intellectual freedom.» Lexington Herald-Leader’s Joel Pett spoke at Eastern Kentucky University. The campus paper has an excellent write-up.» Austin […]
» La Prensa, an Ohio latino publication, writes about Hector D. Cantu and Carlos Castellanos efforts to use their comic strip Baldo to education and fight against hispanic stereotypes.» I’ve mentioned before that Richard Thompson is drawing the cover for the November Nickelodeon magazine. He’s posted a preview. The magazine hits the stands October 21.» […]