In an interview with Chris Mautner, Lynn Johnston reveals that her initial plan of a clean transition from her current For Better of For Worse format into the new hybrid is going to take more time to wrap up current story lines. Expect to see the hybrid format in your paper’s next month, but the […]
The Times (Shreveport, LA) is playing, “The Cartoon Island” in which readers get to bump off two of the least favorite comics. Candidates to be voted off include: Mary Worth, Sally Forth, Beetle Bailey, Marvin, Hagar, For Better or Worse, and Curtis. On the list of possible new comics include: Cafe Con Leche, Dog Eat […]
King Features will be launching a new comic on August 27. The new feature, Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt, is a bout a trio of penguins who emigrate from Antarctica to the Arctic. The strip centers on the friendship between three charismatic penguins, Oscar, Ed and Gordo, who move to the North Pole to escape […]
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, has posted his second piece of advice to Scott Meyer’s feature (see earlier post for background). Today’s post topic is on creating a reader recognized reoccurring theme. When Dilbert was new, a computer publication approached United Media to reprint all of my computer-themed Dilbert strips in their magazine. The deal was […]
With Triple Take coming to an end, Scott Nickel has many more comics up his sleeve. His and Hers runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s on GoComics.com and he’s got another one that will launch on GoComics on Monday called Go Team Bob.
Scott Nickel, the artist behind Triple Take announced on his blog that the feature he shares with Todd Clark will end on August 26tH. According to Scott, King Features pulled the plug. The strip was probably doomed from the start. It was too gimmicky and Iâ??m sure the multiple punch lines from a single character […]
Norm Feuti, the creator of Retail, has launched a web site and blog of his own. A while back he launched a blog called Cooper’s Retail Blog which is written in the voice of his character, Cooper. With his own blog, Norm is free to blog in his own voice. Looks like he started it […]
uClick has announced that Jeff Smith’s Bone character is going to be available on mobile phones. Launched on July 26th, new chapters are added weekly.
Back in June, I wrote about Randall Vanfossen’s efforts to establish a monthly mailing of comics strips through a subscription model. He has announced that he was not able to garner enough subscriptions to make the publication happen. I knew a subscription drive was a long shot, but when I made the decision to go […]
Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. writes in to tell us that his feature is turning 20 years old this year and can now be seen in the Sunday L.A. Times. Congratulations Bob.
Over on Dilbert creator Scott Adam’s blog, he’s revealed that he’s helping an unknown cartoonist, Scott Meyer, take his creation Basic Instructions and turn it into syndication material.From his blog: Over the course of the next few months I offered him some tips for getting syndicated in newspapers. It dawned on me that my blog […]
With all the attention now on Funky Winkerbean’s Lisa Moore’s impending death, the A.V. Club looks back at the 12 most memorable comic strip deaths which include: Farley (For Better Or For Worse), Dick Davenport (Doonesbury), Dead bird (Calvin & Hobbes), Grandpa (The Family Circus), Anonymous corpse (Kudzu), Daddy Warbucks (Little Orphan Annie), John Darling […]
With Kudzu ending at the end of this month, papers are focusing on the funnies. Here’s a round up of who’s in and out this week.The Daily Herald (Everett WA) has replaced One Big Happy with Secret Asian Man and despite protests will stick with Tak Toyoshima’s feature because: A new comic needs time to […]
E&P is reporting two new book collections to hit the book stores next month. Alternative Zits is the latest Zits collection by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer is the latest Close to Home collection by John McPherson.
The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, it will begin digitally archiving a broad range of creative works including photos, cartoons, motion pictures, audio and video games. As far as cartoons: Universal Press Syndicate: Universal Press Syndicate, a newspaper syndication company, will use a collection […]