Jim Mooney, a legend in the comic book industry artist who passed away last month, will have one last published piece this Sunday. This Sunday’s Funky Winkerbean was written by Tony Isabella who made the characters appear as Superman and Supergirl. At Tony’s suggestion, Funky creator Tom Batiuk contacted Jim and asked him to draw […]
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot turns 20 years old today. From Universal Press we learn that despite having retired the daily version at the end of 2006, the classic version still runs in about 50 papers internationally and the Sunday-only strips appear in more than 700 newspapers (print and online). Congratulations Bill on the milestone!
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot will use her feature to explore “how generations raised in front of television, computer and cell phone screens cope with having them removed” during National TV-Turnoff week beginning April 21.In the series, the difficulties of life without television are demonstrated as the teenage Holly tries to make it through the […]
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
The now famous “Garfield Minus Garfield” blog is getting mainstream media attention. The blog, by Dan Walsh of Dublin, takes a Garfield comic strip and removes the main character Garfield to allow readers a different view of Jon Arbuckle.From the site’s description: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic […]
Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has been officially hired by Sony to write the treatment for the Pooch Cafe movie that optioned back in January. A movie treatment is the basic story for the movie outlined in paragraph form. I pitched my treatment/vision of the Pooch Caf’e movie to Sony along with a number (not […]
United Media is launching a few feature by Keith Knight entitled The Knight Life on May 5th. The political and satirical feature is described as tackling “contemporary issues like consumer culture, bacon, the media, race, family and everything else, gently mocking the minutiae of daily life with self-deprecating humor, honesty and goofiness.” “Keith Knight became […]
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro has announced that he’s getting into the trading card business. The new Bizarro trading cards feature a Bizarro cartoon and some unpublished work and the back of each cartoon is a puzzle piece that once assembled with other cards create a larger 17.5 x 11.5″ puzzle. The first release (or Series […]
Tom Batiuk creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean is one of the three finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This is the fourth time a comic strip has been considered for American journalism’s top prize. Two previous comic strippers have won the prize Garry Trudeau (1975) and Berkeley Breathed (1987).According to the judges, Tom’s […]
Whilst sitting at the bar at the next AAEC convention, you can dazzle your peers with some interesting statistics regarding the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.Two comic strips have won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning: Berkeley Breathed (1987) Garry Trudeau (1975) Only two female editorial cartoonists have won: Ann Telnaes (2001) Signe Wilkinson (1992) Five […]
Today is Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater official launch day and Universal Press reports that it has a beginning client list of 130 plus papers. Some of the big papers that have signed up include: The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune and the New York Daily News.The Argyle Sweater […]
Corey Pandolph tells me that his comic Barkeater Lake is going back to a daily schedule on his web site.He writes: I figured out that there are 8 hours in my day that have been wasted on sleep. By adding these hours to my work schedule, I’m now able to write and draw four different […]
Jef Mallett, creator of Frazz, has illustrated a new book that is coming out this week called “Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer” The book is written to introduce the not-so-into-it population to the world of bike racing. The publisher suggested that Jef be the illustrator. Last year, Jef ran his first marathon, […]
Chad Carpenter’s Tundra is nearing the 200 papers mark according to an article in the Kodiak Daily Mirror. Since their early efforts to take the comic strip to the world outside of Alaska, Carpenter said he has been approached by every syndicate and has turned them down. The only contract he has signed is with […]
Far Side creator Gary Larson will be honored for his contributions to journalism and his Alma Mater, Washington Sate University. He, along with the editor of the Yakima Herald-Republic will be added to the WSU Eduard R. Murrow School of Communications Hall of Achievement.