More stories of interest. Frazz features Kalamazoo coffee shop. Stephan Pastis to participate in a discussion on his inspiration and creative processes at the Carolina Comedy Festival. Hector Cantú spoke at Colorado Summit Middle School.
The Standard Examiner (Ogden, UT) has announced that it is soliciting feedback on which comic should join their line-up. Comics to be considered include, Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac, Tony Carillo’s F-Minus, Mark Tatulli’s Lio, Michael Fry and T. Lewis’ Over the Hedge, and Brian Crane’s Pickles. No deadline has been set for a change.According […]
Here’s the Comics Coast to Coast interview I’ve been waiting for. I’ve been a fan of Chad Carpenter’s Tundra since early 2006 when he beat out Bound and Gagged in my local paper. Since then, Chad’s self syndicated strip has grown to over 150 papers. They also speak to Chad’s marketing guru Bill Kellogg.
Tom Spurgeon has posted an extensive interview with Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson. Topics covered include the origin of Cul de Sac, dealing with doing a daily, his Richard’s Poor Almanac weekly strip that runs in the Washington Post, and Richard’s cartoon influences. SPURGEON: Am I right in that Cul De Sac grew out […]
The Concord Monitor has initiated its “second annul Great Comics Contents”. There are scads of new, creative and genuinely funny comic strip artists out there, many of whom struggle to break into daily newspaper pages that are filled with old favorites, as well as strips that are just plain old. We’d like to introduce Monitor […]
I’m traveling today and am way short on time (and internet connection), so here’s the round up for the day.Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine received a whooping 70% of the vote in a recent comic poll conducted by The Winston Salem Journal. Lio appears to be decisive. For Better or For Worse’s hybrid […]
There are two collegiate cartoon scholarships application deadlines coming up. Mike Rhodes’ blog has details on the Swann Fellowship in Caricature and Cartoon. It’s an annual award of up to $15,000 and has a deadline of February 15th.The other award is The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship for any college student in the U.S., Canada or […]
I’m not sure how I missed this one. Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot was featured on Oregon Art Beat and that interview has been posted on the web. The video segment runs about 8 minutes and features Jan talking about her background, her path to syndication, and her workflow.Thanks to Richard Krauss for the notice.
Creators Syndicate is set to launch a new feature by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein entitled Daddy’s Home. The feature focuses on a stay at home dad raising a son and a daughter.Gary’s editorial cartoons are syndicated through Copley News Service and he currently is a designer and illustrator for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He […]
A few things of interest when looking at the comic page changes reported this week. Firstly, The Colorado Springs Gazette has announced the results of their latest comic poll. After 6000 votes cast, For Better or For Worse, B.C., and Peanuts will stay. Wizard of Id and Frank & Earnest were dropped and in their […]
According to Vertura County Star, Lynn Johnston will be ending the hybrid experiment and re-run her feature, For Better or For Worse, when the current story-lines are complete. Universal Press will continue to sell the repeats. Johnston hasn’t set a specific end date but did start a slow phaseout of the comic in September with […]
From Paul Gilligan’s blog comes news that his feature, Pooch Cafe has been optioned by Sony Animation to be made into a CG feature film. He notes that Sony’s two previous forays into computer-animated movies include Open Season (which Steve Moore, creator of In the Bleachers was an executive producer and co-creator) and last year’s […]
I second that. The key lesson here is that the editors in Raleigh got past believing that comics take away space from the “great issues of the day.” A well-balanced comics page deals with the “great issues” better than any other page of the paper. That’s right, even better than the front page, which is […]
Dave Astor has written another article regarding the February 10 “action” of several African-American cartoonists in which they will all draw the same cartoon (using their own characters) to hopefully draw attention to a tendency for editors to lump all of their features in as a “black” genre instead of merely the content of their […]
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, will be doing standup comedy on February 22 along with Johnny Steele at San Francisco’s Purple Onion. Their performance is called “Two Guys With Hats.”In other Piraro news, he’s evacuated his myspace blog and opened up a new over on blogger/blogspot.