There’s a story over in the Wall Street Journal about the competitive nature of the comic pages. The article focuses how hard it is for editors or the public to let go of older, legacy features. Generally, a strip has to end or be dropped by a paper in order for a new one to […]
A local Sioux Falls SD news station has interviewed Chris Browne to talk to him about his recent (2006) move to the South Dakota from Sarasota FL. (See my previous stories) Chris took over on his father’s strip, Hagar the Horrible in 1988 when his father Dik Browne retired. You can also watch the news […]
John McPherson, creator of Close to Home will celebrate 15 years doing his single panel feature. After 5,000 comic panels, the ink well of ideas for some cartoonists might dry up, but not for McPherson. The key for “Close to Home’s” longevity is keeping things fresh. “I don’t have recurring characters or an ongoing storyline […]
Last weeks Comics Coast to Coast podcast featured Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly.Don’t forget to check out Dave’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonist profile and see which cartoonists he admires or influenced his work.
I wrote back in October that Brevity co-creators Rodd Perry and Guy Endore-Kaiser were going to be at a book signing at Borders. As part of a promotion of their upcoming calendar release, Border’s has posted a video of them walking through their creative process. It’s a funny video – lots of self-deprecating humor.
The Chicago Tribune has made two changes in their line-up. Starting this last Monday, they’ve added Bill Whitehead’s Free Range and Harry Bliss’ Bliss. To make room, they’ve dropped Dog Eat Doug and The Humble Stumble. Non Sequitur and Mister Boffo, which had previously ran as panels are now running as strips.UPDATED: The Tribune’s reader […]
An annual celebrity auction was held yesterday in Winnipeg Canada to raise funds for a local food bank. The annual Empty Bowls Dinner provides attendees a bread and soup dinner and a chance to bid on autographed bowls signed by Hollywood a-list celebrities, musicians, and cartoonists. Among the celebrity bowls included bowls signed by Family […]
Brainwaves creator Betsy Streeter recently spent time at the Center of Arts, Technology and Science (CATS) to teach kids about cartooning, teaching art and animation. The local ABC affiliate was there and aired the segment on their “The View from the Bay.“
The Cincinnati Enquirer has published a small interview with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell about the origin of his feature. Q: Was (Mutts) difficult to create? A: The names were the tough part. For a long time, Earl was named Zero. I mentioned it to Charles Schulz, and he told me to name him after my […]
Photos courtesy of John Hart StudiosPerhaps no other cartoonist, with so little cartooning experience, has ever taken on such a iconic and highly syndicated feature as Mason Mastroianni has with the famous comic strip B.C.. Under normal circumstances, an aspiring cartoonist and his comic feature would be given a developmental period to work with an […]
On the heals of yesterday’s story in the New York Times about Scott Adams taking over one the day-to-day business of one of his restaurants, comes news from the Times of London which lists Scott as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers. Notable names in the top 10 include Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Tom […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams went into the restaurant business a decade ago at two locations: Stacey’s Cafe in Waterford and Pleasanton California. Pleasanton has doen well, but the Waterford location has struggled and as business partner Stacey Belkin has been over-extended and Scott began to take on more of the day-to-day operations of the Waterford […]
This weeks guest on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast is Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano. This week Francesco Marciuliano mixes it up with us from a cell phone, on this very silly interview. ‘Ces is a very funny guy, and he lets us in on the legacy of Sally Forth and what it’s like […]
The Houston Chronicle announced yesterday that they are printing all of their comics in color starting on Monday, but that they are dropping a full page of comics. The dropped comics will still be carried on their online offerings. Why is the paper doing this? It’s a cost-cutting measure. The Chronicle has run more comics […]
How cool is this? Over on Tom Tomorrow’s blog he writes that he created a series of cartoons that can be projected onto sides of buildings in San Francisco and Seattle as part of promotional efforts for a new mobile service. Passers by can text their punch-line into the empty word balloon, completing the cartoon. […]