With Allison Burrow’s Preteena being retired this week, there are a couple of changes mentioned.The Daily Times has picked up Cul De Sac to replace Preteena and Pooch Cafe replaces it in Honolulu Star Bulletin.Keith Knight’s Knight Life is picked up by the Washington Post.And the St. Petersburg Times reports that it will be running […]
AfterElton.com, a blog providing news and commentary on gay men in entertainment, has a three page write-up on the topic of gay characters on the comic page starting with Lynn Johnston’s 1993 For Better or For Worse story-line about the Lawrence character coming out of the closet up to a recent subtle reference to a […]
This year’s Glyph Comics Award winners have been announced, and Keith Knight, creator of the newly launched Knight Life comic has been honored with Best Comic Strip for his comic The K Chronicles.Other winners include: Story of the Year: Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm; Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, artist Best Writer: James Sturm, […]
Over on the Washington Post, columnist Gene Weingarten and his readers discuss which four cartoonists deserve placement on a Mt. Rushmore of cartoonists. The reader offered up Walt Kelly and Charles Schulz. Weingarten suggested that Schulz shouldn’t be there, but Gary Larson and Garry Trudeau should be.What’s your take? Only four spots available. Also add […]
After over 12,000 votes cast, this year’s Eagles Award winners have been announced. Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows was voted favorite comic artist in the pencils category.A complete list of winners follows:Roll of Honour – Mike MignolaFavourite Newcomer Writer – Matt FractionFavourite Newcomer Artist – David AjaFavourite Comics Writer – Alan MooreFavourite Comics Writer/Artist […]
King Features has released a new embed-able comic application called Comics Kingdom that allows any newspaper to deploy a comic page easily. The application allows users to view a 30 day archive of King’s comics, ability to rate and comment on a comic, zoom in for a larger view, and to add the page to […]
The New York Times has an interesting profile of alternative newspaper and author cartoonist Lynda Berry and the ups-and-downs of her career. She had an unpleasant childhood but was able to attend college where she became friends with Matt Groening, creator of Life in Hell and The Simpsons. It was there that she started drawing […]
Here are the comic pages that I’ve found this last week.The Detroit News has added Keith Knight’s The Knight Life to it’s line up.The News Tribune, (Tacoma, WA) is adding Zits, Baby Blues, and Pooch Cafe. To make room, Mary Worth, B.C. and World of Wonder are being dropped. The paper said the change was […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has announced that he is ending his comic strip about six months shy of its fifth anniversary. The last day for dailies is July 5th with the last Sunday running June 29th. He says that lack of client newspapers is the reason behind his decision.
Ted Dawson over at “Three Men in a Tub” blog reports that an original Garfield comic strip is for sale an eBay store for $4,499. The seller writes that it is thought to be the 25th strip published in papers and one of the earliest Garfield originals to be sold publicly.Disclaimer: With all auctions, online […]
Two original Peanuts comics strips were auctioned off at Philip Weiss Auctions, according to E&P, for a combined total of $106,270. The two comics – one daily (selling for $52,110), one Sunday (selling for $54,160) prominently picture Snoopy. They were dated 1957 and 1962 respectively.Just six months ago, an original Sunday dating 1955 sold for […]
It’s not often that I get to report on comic page changes outside of the United States, but Hagar the Horrible was recently picked up by a free daily called “.ch” When the Swiss newspaper “Blick” redesigned the paper, it dropped Hagar for lack of space and .ch picked it up. .ch is a free […]
» Scott Adams’ blog has been moved to his newly redesigned web site. Check it out at dilbert.com/blog/» Bleeker creator Jonathan Mahood is featured on the Sunday Funnies podcast.» TDC regular, InkSwig founder, Dawn Douglass has set up a new forum to discuss new and upcoming comics, or as she writes, “Wet Ink is an […]
Fleen has posted the first an interview with webcomic creator and author Dave Kellett on the importance and relevance of print syndication in today’s comic marketplace compared to going it alone in webcomics. Dave shares his experience as a professional webcomicker and as one having a syndicate contract to run his feature Sheldon on Comics.com. […]
Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein has announced that he will be ending his local daily comic strip Denver Square on May 21st. The feature, which first appeared in January of 2007, was an opportunity to explore an average middle-class family living in Denver without getting into politics, according to Ed.Regarding the reason for […]