Earlier this month, I reported that The Hattiesburg American (MS) was changing their line-up because Kudzu is no longer available. After polling their readers they’ve added three new features: Pickles, Pearls Before Swine and Little Dog Lost. On the outs include: Cathy and Mark Trail and of course Kudzu.On the Sunday pages, they’ve also dropped […]
Stripper Guide, Allan Holtz, posted samples of a brief lived Sunday feature by Pat Oliphant that ran in the 1980s. Sunday Punk starred Oliphant’s trademark penguin character from his daily editorial cartoons, and the character was pretty much used in the same way in the Sunday-only comic strip — making wry comments on politics and […]
A reader sent me the link to a CBC News interview with Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse. It’s a typical interview with Lynn, but still a good read. A couple of items that I think qualifies for news is her intent to use her web site to post additional material regarding […]
Berkeley Breathed’s Opus has been temporarily dropped by 25 or more papers today and next week as the topic involves the Lola Granola’s character converting to “radical islamist.” Salon.com, carries the strip says many editors were afraid of offending muslim readers. Another aspect to the strip was a not-so-subtle reference to sex.
Scott Adams continues to post his advise to Scott Meyer who is trying to take his feature to syndication, Basic Instructions. Part 7 has now been posted. He’s posted several revisions of Basic Instructions in the new comic strip format.
Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry, creators of Brevity will be on the Washington Post’s live discussion tomorrow at 1:00 pm (EST). You can submit questions now.
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is offering a number of scholarships to college students for the 2008-2009 academic year. For applicants who qualify, they must download an application and submit a 5 sample portfolio to the foundation for review. The site does not mention the criteria for selecting the winners. The number and amounts are […]
Over on Jimmy Johnson’s blog comes news that someone is auctioning a full year of newspaper clippings of his feature Arlo and Janis on Ebay. The clippings are from the year 1990 and includes only the dailies. See auction page. The bidding started at $26 and Jimmy has posted the first and so far only […]
On September 8 the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco will have Betsy Streeter available as their latest Cartoonist-in-Residence. Betsy does the Brainwaves comic seen on GoComics.com.
Craig Boldman, who writes the Archie comics strip, will be featured in upcoming commercial, movie, and stage production. This weekend he’ll be the narrator for two stage productions – Mama’s Bible, and Teacher’s Left Behind. He’ll “>appear in a commercial (as a scientist) in September for Speedway (convenience stores) and he has a small part […]
The Charlie Rose’s new website includes thousands of videos from interviews he’s had on his show. Among the few dug up by Drawn! include Charles M. Schulz, Garry Trudeau, Matt Groening and James L. Brooks, Scott Adams, Art Spiegelman. Sparky has always intrigued me. As I watched the 35 minute video I was inspired by […]
The ever prolific blogger, Scott Adams continues to post his mentoring advice to Scott Meyer. If you’re new to the story, you can read my original story. Here is his third, fourth , fifth and sixth instructions.
The News Journal (Delaware) has picked up four new features: Baldo, Pearls Before Swine, Pickles, and Tina’s Groove. The paper announced that it is dropping seven features: Yet some of the changes were made without us: Cathy, Marmaduke, Sally Forth, Shoe, You Can With Beakman, Kid City and Family Circus.Still in the papers are: Zits, […]
The Times Online (UK) reports that Dennis the Menace will now be available on your mobile phone through ROK Comics which also provides Garfield, Doonesbury. However visiting ROK’s web site reveals nothing about this latest news.
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