Baby Blues will be on a trial run at the Montreal Gazette. If you like Baby Blues, you’ll probably see it assume a place in our comics lineup, which is already one of the most comprehensive in Canada. At the end of the test period, we’ll put another strip in that bottom right-hand corner of […]
Kathryn LeMieux, who is also one of the Six Chicks collaborators, is ending her “Feral West” weekly cartoon that has run in the Pt. Reyes Light Newspaper for the last 11 years has run its course. The last strip ran Friday. After more than 11 years in The Light, this week Tomales cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux?s […]
From E&P: In the “Best Print Comic Strip” category, winners were “This Modern World” by the self-syndicated Tom Tomorrow (About.com’s choice) and “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau of Universal Press Syndicate (“People’s Pick”). Winners for “Best Web Cartoons” were Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” (About.com’s choice) and Charles Fincher’s “The Illustrated Daily Scribble” (“People’s Pick”).
The New York Times has a lengthy article about the new comic strip “Retail” that debuts tomorrow in about 20 papers. His aim for the comic strip, which will be published beginning tomorrow, is to do for the mall what “Dilbert” did for the office, revealing the dysfunctional world of bickering employees, spineless managers and […]
With the end of Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, The Philadelphia Inquirer has picked up Cathy both as a daily and Sunday feature. We received your calls and e-mails, and we’ve listened. Beginning Sunday, the humor and true-to-life adventures of Cathy return to our comics pages seven days a week. And on Jan. 8, we […]
I sat on this story for a while hoping to get more details. Since Peter Zale’s creation is silently closing down, I’ll post what I do know. Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet will no longer be syndicated after Christmas 2005. Peter’s web site say’s he’s on sabbatical, but an article in the Salt Lake Tribune […]
Fosters Daily Democrat (Dover, NH) will start running Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy on Sunday.
Editor and publisher ‘has an article on the passing of Bud Blake who drew the comic feature “Tiger.” More information can be had at King Feature’s web site. “Tiger” comic creator Bud Blake died Monday at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was 87. Blake created “Tiger” in 1965, and it still appears in […]
King Features will roll out a new strip on January 1 called “Retail”. The feature is created by Norm Feuti has worked in retail for more than 15 years. ?The concept of a retail-based strip has great mass appeal, because everyone can relate to it, either as a former or current retail worker or shopper,? […]
John C. Shaw, a reader of Alley Oop was recently disgruntled over whether Carol and Jack Bender who now do the Alley Oop strip, were using the word “abdominal” vs “abominable” correctly. He then claims that his mother, Jane, was the original inspiration for the character Ooola back before World War II. John asked Jane […]
In the one year since the launch of Brevity, the creators, Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry have picked up 150 papers. Now the Des Moines Register is one of them. The Register has done a good write up about the success and origin of Brevity. The whole thing started when Endore-Kaiser dropped a couple of […]
I noticed that the Madagascar DVD had a work in progress teaser for the “Over The Hedge” movie coming out this summer. Apple’s movie trailer site also has an ‘Over The Hedge’ trailer posted.
According to this report, Spider-Man is coming back to newspapers in a big way. News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are reintroducing Spider-Man as a weekly half page insert. NEW YORK News America Marketing and Marvel Entertainment are teaming up to distribute collectible editions of “Amazing Spider-Man” in Sunday papers beginning in late summer 2006. […]
Brian Anderson’s Dog Eat Doug continues to pick up papers and the occassional headline. The Pittsburg Tribune-Review has picked up the strip and added it to their line up. They’ve also posted a story about the creator. “Really, I see it animated in my head,” he says. “So all I’m doing is picking out still […]
Patrick McDonnell’s first story book “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the NYT Beset Seller list for Children’s books according to his web site. It is with great pleasure to annouce that Patrick’s first storybook, “The Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the New York Times Best Seller […]