From E&P we learn that Parade Magazine is adding cartoons by Dave Coverly and Carla Ventresca to their weekly LaughParade page starting this Sunday. The article doesn’t make it clear if the cartoons added are Dave’s Speed Bump panel or Carla’s On a Claire Day strip.Parade magazine has featured Bunny Hoest and John Reiner’s The […]
The Comic Wire has an interesting interview with Fox Trot creator Bill Amend who dropped his daily strip back in December of last year. He talks about his contract with Universal Press, how he produces his Sunday feature, character identification, merchandising and more nondescript, vague answers about what he does with his time now that […]
Mark Heath writes in after seeing Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble theme song to mention that he too has a theme song for his feature Spot the Frog albeit “more humble (i.e. amateur) than his.” Check them out on the Spot the Frog Radio Theater Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Here’s #5:
Aaron Johnson, creator of the What the Duck web comics and the syndication bingo game (see announcement, update, progress report), tells me that it’s official – he’s signed a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate that guarantees a 2009 launch (at the latest). The paper has expressed interest in changing the feature’s name before it’s […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has announced that Doonesbury creator, Garry Trudeau, will make a rare public appearance on behalf of the school on October 22. The event costs $50 a person. A framed original strip is also being auctioned off in a related event. Auction begins on October 17 and ends on the 23rd. […]
Coast to Coast podcasters Brian Dunaway, Justin Thompson, Tom Racine recently emailed Berkeley Breathed with 8 questions to which Berkeley responded. The recent Coast To Coast podcast has the responses.
cIndyCenter.com has a short interview with Dave Astor, senior editor at Editor and Publisher wherein he talks about the trends in comics and his duties at the magazine. Interview lasts 11 minutes or so.cIndyCenter.com is an “interview show that highlights the best in contemporary and indie creators.”
With the last week of the Funky Winkerbean story-line of the dying Lisa Moore character, newspapers and readers are talking about the impact and appropriateness of the topic. It’s a subject that is still being debated on several threads on this blog. As a recap, here are what some of the paper’s are writing on […]
From the Three Men in a Tub blog comes a little gem. Roy Schneider, creator of the feature Humble Stumble, has written his own theme song. It’s found on YouTube. See below.
The Fayetteville Observer is trying to find a suitable replacement for Doug Marlette’s Kudzu, and like most paper’s they offered a poll. The results indicate there is a generational shift happening in the comic pages today. Instead rolling out the poll results, they interviewed their readers, an associate professor, and a syndication president. According to […]
The L.A. Times has an extensive profile on Aaron McGruder and his work on the second season of the television version of The Boondocks. Aaron talks about the difficulties of putting out the comic while being thrown into making an animated television show, what to expect in season two that starts next week, more use […]
Editor and Publisher reports that Phil Frank has received, posthumously, the first Herb Caen lifetime achievement award by the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club. The award is named after Herb Caen, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist who died in 1997.
Tony Carrillo’s’, F Minus has been named “Best Syndicated Comic Strip” by Phoenix New Times. They also have a funny Q and A with Tony. The report that F Minus is in 125 newspapers across the country.
Matt Janz’ Single and Looking is in trial mode over at the Winston-Salem Journal. The announcement comes with an article explaining Matt’s recent decision to change the title of his feature, which used be called “Out of the Gene Pool.”
La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz will be speaking and signing books at the 5th Annual Houston Latino Book & Family Festival in Houston on Saturday and Sunday.On Saturday he’ll field questions from other attendees regarding his comic feature and then on Sunday he’ll panel a discussion entitled, “How to Be a World-Famous Cartoonist” where he’ll […]