Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac has started blogging. The blog features sketches and an interesting story of a dinner with syndicate executives. It was only started Monday, so we’ll see where it goes.
Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about all his feature, his book and his move to Maine. Was it hard to sell the syndicate on a strip without characters or themes, just focusing entirely on the funny? At the time, yes. I created this during a severe recession […]
Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the PinHead will be a featured speaker at this year’s Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland on Oct. 12 and 13. Bill “will deliver a heavily illustrated slideshow talk about his life and work to date.” SPX will also present its 11th annual Ignatz award for outstanding achievement in comics […]
I’ve received confirmation from King Features that the Funky Winkerbean character, Lisa Moore, will pass away on Thursday October 4. The story-line will ultimately conclude on October 26th upon which the comic feature will leap 10 years into the future and focus on the sons and daughters of the strip’s original characters.In addition to the […]
Readers of the Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY) were asked if they should replace Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse now that it was 28 years old and starting to run old material. The response was 95% no. The paper has responded that it won’t drop the feature.
Over on Comic Book Resources is a great, and lengthy interview with Gary Gianni who began to take over on the art work on Prince Valiant in 2000 while John Cullen Murphy transitioned out. Gary also talks about a Prince Valiant art book that is due out next year which will include reproductions of preliminaries, […]
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (A-HAA) blog has posted some great Chic Young and Blondie material that’s worth a few minutes of your time. Hat tip: Dirk Deppey
I received an email from Dave Dotson regarding a couple of significant milestones for his self-syndicated feature Outzkirts. He reports that not only his his feature in 50 papers nation-wide but that he’s also picked up the Jacksonville Daily Progress, his first daily. He also mentions that the Kerrville Daily Times in Texas is planning […]
Yesterday, a large memorial was held in honor of Phil Frank, who drew Farley for the San Francisco Chronicle for 22 years. The crowd neared 2000 people and a good number of them were dressed up in their favorite costumes based on characters in the strip. Attending the service included members of his family, Phil […]
Only a couple of line-up changes that I’m aware of. Candorville creator Darrin Bell reports on his blog that Lalo Alcaraz’ La Cucaracha has been dropped in favor of Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle. John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee reports on his blog that his feature was recently dropped by Rocky […]
Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be presented a 2007 Media Award by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association bringing attention to “Aphasia” a disorder often brought out as a result of a stroke or brain injury. In her comic feature, the grandfather character struggles to regain his speech after a stroke. The […]
Chicago Tribune Public Editor Timothy McNulty has written a response to many a questioning readers as to why a September 14th Get Fuzzy strip was yanked and what criteria does the paper use to determine whether a comic feature should be removed. Readers asked why the Sept. 14th Get Fuzzy, which used the words like […]
Four cartoonists, whose works appear in the Cavalier Daily, have quit in protest over the firing of Grant Woolard who’s cartoon depicting nine naked black men fighting with chairs, sticks and boots with the caption of “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The departing cartoonists include Ellisha Marongelli, Joe Shaver, Chen Song and Laura Lin. Their departure leaves […]
In continuation of an earlier story I reported on a couple of weeks ago regarding a controversial cartoon depicting a hispanic girl imprisoned in a closet forced to drink urine. Over a 100 students gathered outside the paper’s offices last Tuesday to protest the comic and demand that the editor be fired. Because the paper […]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]