I mentioned it briefly back in December that Stan Lee was going to be the guest of honor at a Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art fundraiser to coincide with the New York Comic-Con. The museum was also working toward an exhibit in his honor as well. I received a press release from the museum […]
Fantagraphic books is coming out with another collection of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. I’m not sure where I read this, but for legal reasons’ the books are all named Krazy & Ignatz. This latest collection entitled A Brick Stuffed With Moombins is due in stores in March. You can get $5 off if you pre-order […]
Scott Nickel – half of the Triple Take team writes in to announce that he’s started up a blog. Scott, for those who don’t know him, works in Jim Davis’ Paws Inc. as a writer/editor on books and other Garfield related licensing.
The comic feature Mark Trail is celebrating 60 years in the funny pages. Mark Trail was created by Ed Dodd in 1946 and turned over to Jack Elrod since 1978 according to King Feature’s web site. The Northeast Georgia History Center is planning a special program to honor Ed (was from Gainesville and died there […]
There’s a great article in the McGill Tribune about the great potential the cartoon has for motivating change in society and they use Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury as an example of a cartoon that helped end a racial law in Florida back in the mid-1980s. Legally speaking, racial segregation in the United States is an issue […]
Charles Boyce is being honored with an exhibit of his feature, Compu-Toon in Barrington, IL. He was interviewed by the Daily Herald about that event.
Only one paper making major changes to their line-up that I can find. The Journal Register (Medina NV) has dropped FoxTrot, Rugrats and Cats With Hands in favor of Sandra Bell-Lundy’s Between Friends, Allison Barrows’ Preteena and Mike Peters’ Mother Goose AND GRIMM. UPDATE: I told you last week about the Hamilton Spectator who went […]
There’s an interesting article over at the San Francisco Examiner about individuals who are set to collect vintage comic strips with the hope of getting them reprinted in a collection. From the article, it appears that many of these collectors are fanatics who have spent a great deal of money to grow their collection. At […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is still trying to find a replacement for FoxTrot. These last two weeks they’ve been runnning Mark Tatulli’s Lio in tryout mode, but as the editor explains, “Most of the feedback I received was negative.” So Lio is out and Rich Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties is in. The Courier-Journal has completed their […]
Back in December, Amy Lago, comics editor at Washington Post Writers Group, blogged about the quirkiness of using off-color words in comics. Fearing that many interpreted her comments as being anti-dicey language, she wrote another blog post regarding the matter. Just last week, there was dissension on the appropriateness of the word “ass” in Doonesbury […]
Darrin Bell talks about a different approach taken by the Hamilton Spectator to the traditional comics poll – taking samples into a dark bar (or comedy club) and asking patrons whether they should be added to their comics page. The features under consideration by a bunch of randomly selected, slightly inebriated, who even knows if […]
Dan Thompson has announced that he has secured the rights from the Milton Caniff family to run Steve Canyon on Humorous Maximus according to E&P.The feature begins on Monday, January 22.
The Capital (Annapolis, Md) will be trying out six new strips: Pearls Before Swine, Non Sequitur, Pickles, Brevity, Frazz, and Candorville. The contest begins January 21. The voting will be via paper ballot (favored method for the aged), online and email ballots (favored by the younger crowd). We’ll see which method yields the winning feature.
The Courier & Press has decided not to drop Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Filmore or Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury after a two week period to collect reader input. The result was “readers of the Viewpoint page have let us know in no uncertain terms that they want us to continue running the “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore” comic […]
From the Toledo Free Press comes word that a new strip Biff and Riley will be adding to the line up at the end of this month. The new local comic strip is by Toledoan Jeff Payden and features two sibling dogs. Payden described the main characters, two dogs, as “two brothers from the same […]