Darrin Bell’s Candorville was pulled from the Washington Post two weeks ago as well as the Detroit Free Press. The week long story-line involved character Lemont Brown interviewing the Secret Service why security for Barack Obama appeared to be lacking. According to one RACs reader who asked the Free Press Special Features and Syndicates Editor […]
Last January I told you Frank Cho would be releasing a 10-year anniversary collection of his Liberty Meadows strip. Wednesday “Liberty Meadows 10th Anniversary Edition” will hit book shelves. It’s 176 pages and contains all the strips from the first nine collections plus a special introduction by Erik Larsen and never-before-seen college strips than started […]
Last week’s Dilbert created a stir among those “not especially religious” for a story-line mocking Jesus in the weeks leading up to Easter according to Dilbert creator Scott Adams on his blog. See beginning of story-arc. This week’s series in Dilbert caused quite a stir. It featured a new guy in the office whose name […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog writes in to tell me that he’s started a Fundable project to raise money to create a color daily download version of his first Spot The Frog collection. The first printing of his book will soon be out of print so he’s hoping to raise the $1000 necessary […]
E&P reports that Alex Hallett’s Arctic Circle replaced Gasoline Alley in the Daily Gazette of Schenectady, N.Y. Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids has been reinstated in The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. after reader complaints. Pardon My Planet will be dropped to bring back Slylock Fox.Chad Carpenter’s self-syndicated (domestically) feature Tundra has been picked up […]
Andrew Feinstein, co-creator of Girls and Sports, has created a web site devoted to inspire the Denver Nuggets to fire their head coach George Karl. He is not doing it anonymously, nor as he states as a personal attack on the Nugget’s head coach. As Andy explains in an early post, As a lifelong Denver […]
» A 1903 Jungle Imps original Sunday was sold for $33,900 last week . Jungle Imps was a strip created by Winsor McCay of Little Nemo in Slumberland fame which ran from 1905 to 1914. » Charles Brubaker has posted an email interview that he conducted with Chuck Asay.» Pooche Cafe creator Paul Gilligan was […]
John Reads long attempt to start his Stay Tooned! quarterly magazine has hit its first milestone – launching. The premiere issue features Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), John Rose (Snuffy Smith), Greg Cravens (The Buckets), Scott Stantis (Prickly City), Steve Kelley (The Times-Picayune), Marshall Ramsey (The Clarion-Ledger), Steven Butler (Sonic X), John Deaton (The Toon […]
The Caller-Times, Corpus Christi TX, reports that they have added 11 new comic features to their daily comics page and five new Sunday comics. The paper reports that after dropping Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse two months ago, readers insisted the paper reinstate the feature. As a result the editor decided to bring […]
William Warren, the 2006 Locher Award winner, has been awarded with the Charles M. Schulz award given to the best college cartoonist. William is a student at Wake Forest University, and won the award for his comic strip Lummox. The Schulz award is given annually by the Scripps Howard Foundation.Finalist for the award include Isaac […]
Just got a tip that this year’s NCS Reuben Award Nominees for Cartoonist of the Year are: Dan Piraro, Dave Coverly, and Al Jaffee.Dan is the creator of Bizaro and is syndicated through King Features. Dave is the creator of Speed Bump, syndicated through Creators, and Al is a longtime contribute to MAD magazine.More information […]
» Editorial cartoonist Lucas Turnbloom as started a web comic. » Luann – the musical – hits the stage again at Palomar College. Luann creator Greg Evans wrote the play as well as the music. It was first produced at the college in the fall of 2006.» Two more editorial cartoons by Bill Watterson have […]
Thad Ogburn, the features editor for Raleigh News & Observer, has been promoted to Metro editor. Last fall, Thad gained notoriety in the comics industry for expanding the comics section after an extensive comic poll. The decision prompted others, including myself to hope he’d run for president. In his new position, Thad will oversee the […]
» Cow and Boy will get it’s first book collection. Look for it on shelves next month.» Brevity creators Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry will have their third book collection next month. It’s called Brevity Remix.» Rose is Rose fans will want to pick up the latest collection called 100% Whole Grin Rose is Rose.» […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has announced that he will be taking a 12-week vacation from his strip but will resume before the Democratic and Republican conventions and general election. This break begins Sunday, March 23, 2008 through June 16, 2008. In the meantime, Garry has selected 12 weeks of reruns which are offered to subscribing […]