Filed under: Comic Strips

Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos has posted a video of him sketching Baldo on YouTube. Hat Tip: E&P.

Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]

Dan Thompson writes in with the story behind Humorous Maximus‘ temporary closure. Apparently (and allegedly) the site’s own web master copied all the ‘toons off of Humorous Maximus and started his own little site with them and then deleted all the pages from the HM site. Needless to say, Dan and fellow co-founder Jerry King […]

Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be in New York City tomorrow at the Book Expo signing books and then on June 10 and 11, she’ll be at the Book Expo Canada in Toronto signing books. See link above for locations and specifics on time.

The Washington Post has announced that they are adding Sherman’s Lagoon and Lio to their daily round up and dropping B.C. and The Wizard of Id.I can understand editor’s willingness to drop B.C. – the original creator has died and it’s uncertain how well it will continue in “legacy mode”. But to drop The Wizard […]

Earlier this month, I told you that John Hambrock launched a web site to showcase his comic, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. He’s now opened a forum for guests and fans to talk about his work.

I mentioned this back in January, but I’m seeing syndicated stories about John Marshall who’s name will now be cited as an artist on the Blondie comic strip. Then he got a call from King Features in 2002 to work as an assistant artist on “Blondie.” He had done inking work on the strip “Hagar […]

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau spoke at the Goucher College graduation ceremony over the weekend and apologized for being “yet another baby boomer peddling wisdom to the micro-managed children his generation has produced.”

Sandra Bell-Lundy mentioned the name of a water color artist she admired in her Between Friends feature to the surprise and delight of the 82 year old painter.

Johnny Hart’s features (B.C. and Wizard of Id) have lost a couple more papers. Here’s a review of what is being added and dropped in the last couple of week:Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine has picked up the South Bend Tribune (replaces the The Wizard of Id) and The Richmond Times-Dispatch where he displaces B.C.. […]

Craig Yoe writes in to share a scan of the very first Pogo comic strip over on his web site. Fantagraphics is publishing the entire Pogo comics and has asked for help from those who own any originals or high quality scans. From Gary Groth, founder of Fantagraphics:We are looking for the best possible black-and-white […]

Jonathan Mahood writes in to announce that his feature, Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog has moved to GoComics.com as of last Friday and has been optioned for a Canadian animated television show. Bleeker, which first appeared in the ComicSherpa last July features a robotic toy dog and his hyper 10 year-old owner, Skip. The animation project […]

Tom Spurgeon reviews Girls and Sports book: I’m saying all of that because while I’m sure that Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein are nice guys who make certain people laugh, I hated this book. Ouch. Read the full review.UPDATE: Andrew Feinstein writes in to point out that, despite Tom’s review, there have been many very […]

Arizona daily star catches up with Tony Carrillo. “I never feel that I’m not at work. Even when I’m out with friends, hanging out, I’m always thinking ‘Could that idea be a comic?’ ” he said. “I’ll always keep a notebook with me, jotting ideas down.” Naturally, Carrillo has less freedom doing “F Minus” in […]

The first graduating class of the Center for Cartoon Studies have been issued their diplomas and are out drumming up work to pay off their $30,000 tuition for the two year institution. More than 150 people crammed into the downtown opera house Saturday afternoon to watch the 18 cartoonists graduate. Commencement speaker Patrick McDonnell, the […]