Filed under: Comic Strips

Awesome. Lots of laugh out loud moments.

Pixar Planet notes a few of the Easter Eggs found in Cars 2.This one is apparently in every film.NOD TO THE NUMBER ? The number A113, which refers to John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton?s former classroom at CalArts, makes an appearance in every Pixar film. In ?Cars 2,? you can see […]

The 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced for the best syndicated strip or panel category. A hearty congratulations go out to Richard Thompson (Cul De Sac), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur) and Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug).

This year’s 2011 Harvey Awards Nominees have been posted. Winners will be announced August 20, 2011 in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con.BEST LETTERERScott Brown, BOX 13, http://www.comixology.com and Red 5 Comics Darwyn Cooke, RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE OUTFIT, IDW Dustin Harbin, CASANOVA, Icon Comics Troy Peteri, WITCHBLADE, Top Cow Robbie Robbins, LOCKE & KEY: KEYS […]

Hall of Fame hockey referee Andy van Hellemond has serviced notice to the creator so of Adam@Home and numerous newspapers that ran the May 28th strip on the grounds of defamation. In the strip Adam and his son are sitting on the couch and the son asks if someday he too could be a hockey […]

Today is US Independance Day. Blogging resumes tomorrow.

Michael Cavna has posted the best summary of the end of United Media and the implications for syndicates in today’s newspaper climate.“No history of daily comics could be written,” [John] Glynn echoes, “without a third or more of it devoted to what United and NEA brought to the readers of the world.” And Glynn’s Universal […]

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith didn’t fair to well in a recent reader poll in the Knoxville The News Sentinel and the editors opted to cut it. The Barney Google and Snuffy Smith fans were loud enough to cause the editors to reinstate it. John Rose, the current cartoonist for the strip, decided to take […]

Australia’s longest-running comic strip, Ginger Meggs, will be commermorating its 90th anniversary this November with a new silver Australian coin that features Ginger Meggs one side and Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse of the coin. The coin is 1oz pure silver. Jason Chatfield is the current and fifth cartoonist to work on the feature […]

The newly minted Dick Tracy cartoonists Joe Staton and Mike Curtis were honored by the Tennessee Senate through a resolution recognizing their professional accomplishments. Here is the full resolution (pdf download here). A RESOLUTION congratulating Joe Staton and Mike Curtis on their professional accomplishments. WHEREAS, from time to time, the members of this General Assembly […]

This can’t be good.Once upon a time, a newspaper cut comic strips knowing it could be unleashing the hounds by way of calls and letters from readers angered by a disruption of cherished routines. But this far, the Post hasn’t been deluged after cutting a baker’s dozen of strips, including iconic favorites like Doonesbury and […]

Due out on September.It’s a tricky feat, given that much about the raid remains shrouded in secrecy. To accomplish it, the Dyes say they scoured media reports and other public descriptions of the operation, while Capt. Dye interviewed some he knew in the special operations community. There was also, as he put it, some SWAG […]

Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood is profiled on Wired.com about his feature that went into syndication in January. GD: Where does your character(s) come from? Have you been doodling Bleeker sketches since childhood? JM: I?ve been drawing comics since I was a kid but I created Bleeker and launched him online about 5 […]

Rovio, the gaming studio behind Angry Birds, has announced they’ve hired former chairman of Marvel Studios David Maisel to “help build the company’s entertainment business and produce its Angry Birds films.” Maisel was also the executive producer of Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.The Next Web reports that Rovio has been […]

Bob Harvey has a great interview with Jim Davis regarding his career doing Garfield. Bob provides a lot of insight into the PAWS Inc. organization and Jim’s role in his empire. Garfield appeared in papers 33 years ago last week.As the Garfield empire grew, more and more of Davis’ time was devoted to the multiplicity […]