Mary Worth’s continued success despite often coming low in the popularity polls is not lost on Barry Alfonso, a journalist, who wrote an indepth analysis/tribute to the remarkable staying power of Mary Worth. The slightly doughy but innately elegant Mary embodies a civility that is fading out of real life. Moreover, the very pace of […]
From this article from the Post-Star comes confirmation to what I had suspected – that it was the syndicate that had convinced Lynn Johnston to keep For Better or For Worse going in what is being called a “hybrid” format. Q: How did this hybrid idea come about? A: It was suggested to me by […]
Last December Aaron Johnson created a bingo board to track his comic strip submission to the big six syndicates. He’s been updating it as the responses have come in. The submission went out on the 21st and Tribune Media responded back on the 29th which is impressively fast considering it’s also during the holiday season. […]
Over at the Universal Press web site is a news release with J.C. Duffy talking about his feature, Fusco Brothers which has been in syndication since 1989 and appears in 100+ papers. As far as the “Fusco Brothers” changing over the past years, they really haven’t much, Duffy confesses. The looks of the “Fusco Brothers” […]
While Jim Borgman hints that Garry Trudeau ought to win the Nobel Prize this year, a columnist in the Hamilton Spectator argues that the neo-conservative new line that our failure in Iraq is the Iraqis fault is pervasive that it’s now found itself in Doonesbury. As the people who talked the United States into the […]
Friday’s Funky Winkerbean generated an angry response in two communities that ran Tom Batiuk’s feature. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA) received a call from an Army staff sergeant from Fort Benning and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK) received a call from an offended parent over the depiction of Funky Winkerbean’s brother being blown up from an […]
Back in October I told you about a new feature that was to debut in January from Universal Press. I noticed that they’ve posted samples of Maintaining on their web site. Maintaining is by Nate Creekmore who has been working on the feature under a development deal since 2004. He won the Charles M. Schulz […]
Charlos Gary, the creator of Working it Out is coming out with a new feature on April 2nd called Cafe Con Leche. The new feature will be syndicated through Creators. They’ve posted samples of the new feature on their web site.
Monica Bartoszek, senior editor/operations for the Times Union questioned the perceived practice of commercial product placement in comic strips after a reader mailed her 10 comic strip clippings from a 4-day period which included: Pickles: Feb. 5, iPod The Pajama Diaries: Feb. 5, Barbie Grand Avenue: Feb. 5, Calgon Close to Home: Feb. 6, Target […]
Today’s Pearls Before Swine got an out-loud chuckle from me today. If you haven’t seen it, take a moment and check it out. I won’t describe it so as to lessen its punch-line.
There have been several For Better Or For Worse stories published across the country since it first became news that its creator Lynn Johnston was not going to retire her strip this fall. I bring this one to your attention, not because it has a great deal of new information, but it does confirm from […]
From the Aaugh blog comes news about a new biographical work on Charles Schulz that will be available in October. The book, coming in at 688 pages, is entitled “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” and is penned by David Michaelis. Amazon is offering a pre-order price guarantee that if you pre-order the book now, you’ll […]
Julie Larson recently featured a fan inside her Dinette Set comic strip. Charles Barngrover, a retired University of Cincinnati business professor works with stain glass and gives away his creations. The Dinette Set for February 18 showed signs in her strip reading, “Barngrover Inc.,” “Charles Stained Glass!” and “Larson Special Order.” Apparently, Barngrover met Julie […]
After receiving complaints that the print on the Sunday comics were too small and hard to read, they’re printing the comics bigger – but discontinuing a couple of strips to make room. They’ve dropped Peanuts, Frank & Earnest, Rose is Rose, Blondie, B.C. and Family Circus. These will continue to run as dailies. Mother Goose […]
Patrick McDonnell was interviewed by the Star Ledger where he discusses the dogs in his life that inspires in comic strip Mutts.