Mark Tatulli’s Heat of the City will run an encore of a 2002 storyline to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass,” refers to the terrifying sequence of events throughout Germany and parts of Austria on Nov. 9-10, 1938 as 8,000 Jewish villages, homes and businesses were swarmed and destroyed […]
Charlos Gary, who launched Cafe Con Leche earlier this year about a Hispanic and African-American couple has asked if newspapers are ready to embrace strips with bi-racial characters. On his blog he writes: Looking around, I remember reading something about another cartoon about a bi-racial couple that didn’t find much success. I remember a comic […]
I haven’t had a chance to listen to it, but this week’s Comics Coast to Coast guest is Mark Tatulli who talks about his feature Lio and the movie deal announced last week.
The Oshkosh Northwestern quietly dropped last week’s Crankshaft rape cartoon opting to run a replacement without notifying readers of the reasons behind the decision. It is not generally known but I have a gentleman’s agreement with Crankshaft. If he leaves me alone and behaves himself, I’ll leave him alone. I heard a lifetime of complaints […]
The Winston-Salem Journal is running Secret Asian Man in demo mode for the next month. They’ve posted a short interview with Tak Toyoshima, the feature’s creator. Questions asked: Where did you grow up, and were you drawing from a young age? What led you into a career as a newspaper cartoonist? What inspired you to […]
E&P reports that a feminist blogger took issue with Wednesday’s Crankshaft because of a infered joke regarding rape. In the strip by Tom Batuik and Chuck Ayers depicts the Lois character standing over the contents that spilled out of her purse including a can of pepper spray and Crankshaft comments, “You’re sixty-eight, Lois. You can […]
Editor and Publisher has posted their 4th podcast with with this episode including E&P senior editor Dave Astor who talks about the controversial biography of Charles M. Schulz entitled Schulz and Peanuts. Dave draws on his many conversations that he’s had with Sparky as well as his son Monte.
Jack Elrod, who has worked on the Mark Trail comic since 1950, will be honored with the Outstanding Forestry Journalism Award from the Society of American Foresters during that organizations national convention in Oregon this week. The award is given for journalist coverage of topics that increase American’s understanding of forestry and natural resources. Jack […]
Dinette Set creator Julie Larson will be at the Schaumburg Township District Library on Monday to talk about how she got started, how syndication works and comic strip development. Admission is free.
Tak Toyoshima writes in to tell us that he’s kicking off a promotional tour for his comic Secret Asian Man. He’ll be visiting Florida, Virginia and Texas and participating in various local events. If you’re in the area, I’m sure he’d love for you to stop bye and say hi.November 6 – University of Florida […]
The Comics Coast to Coast guys interviewed me last week to talk about this here blog and some of the latest events and news in the industry. You can download it through your iTunes or download it directly.UPDATE: The CCC guys have posted the description of this episode of the podcast:You know that special news […]
From the Dilbert newsletter we learn that Scott Adams will be doing a virtual book signing on Second Life on October 30th. His avatar will be passing out free Dilbert posters and the Second Life system has been programmed so that other avatars can kick his in the groin. There is also a virtual Q&A […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted one of his older Richard’s Poor Almanac cartoon called Cartoon Round Table wherein several newspaper comic characters discuss the return of Opus. Quite funny. Love the Charlie Brown shirt.
The Kentucky Herald-Leader has announced major changes in their newspaper – their first major shake-up in over a decade. The paper formed a committee and a ballot and after 4000 votes were tabulated they’ve announced the following features were being dropped: The Quigmans Apartment 3-G Cathy Dennis the Menace Marmaduke Mary Worth Pardon My Planet […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau spoke at the Center for Cartoon Studies last night about his career and challenges in the comic industry. On the topic of challenges, Garry says that it’s never gotten easier, but what topics that generated controversy in the 70’s have been largely destigmatized.He was also asked if he draws all the […]