I noticed gocomics.com when I was visiting Gardfield‘s web site a couple of days ago, so I assumed that GoComics was an established product/feature, but the press release announcing the services hit the wire today. From the press release: With a huge list of popular comic strips, GoComics lets fans put their favorite characters on […]
From E&P, we get this little nugget of information: A 100-year-old comic strip has made this week’s “Must List” in Entertainment Weekly. Ranking sixth on the top-10 list is “Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays,” the Peter Maresca-edited book picturing classic strips Winsor McCay created between 1905 and 1910
The Charles M. Schulz Museum will begin a new exhibit (scroll down the page) on February 4 (through May 29) called, “Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies.” The subtitle is: “An Exhibition of Peanuts Girls and their Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors” and as you might expect shows various girl characters in comic strips […]
The self syndicated strip “Girls & Sports” will be distributed by Creators starting January 1. Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein co-created “Girls & Sports” in the late 1990s. They built a clientele of 75-plus campus papers before starting to seek general-circulation papers in October 2004. They now have more than 100 non-college clients — an […]
A press release on Universal Syndicate’s web site gives us a peak at a story line in the newly launched “Ink Pen” where one of the characters has to change it’s name because it infringes on the trademark of another creation. The strips reflect the real-life issue Ink Pen creator Phil Dunlap became aware of […]
E&P is reporting that Joe Martin is starting his own syndicate to distribute his features. Longtime comic creator Joe Martin has left the world of established syndicates to launch his own company. Neatly Chiseled Features (NCF) is distributing Martin’s “Willy ‘n Ethel” (which began in 1981), “Mr. Boffo” (1986), and “Cats With Hands” (1999). Those […]
There is a good article posted by the Star Bulletin that goes behind the scenes of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special – from the perspective of Lee Mendelson, the producer.Baseball has been very, very good to Lee Mendelson. More than four decades ago, the Bay area film producer had just wrapped a television documentary on […]
E&P is reporting that the first Comic-Con in New York will feature Patrick McDonnell, creator of ‘Mutts’.Among the Comic-Con’s “special guests” will be “Mutts” creator Patrick McDonnell of King Features Syndicate. Also, King will be among hundreds of exhibitors at the event (www.nycomiccon.com). The convention will be held Feb. 24-26 at Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Center.
Rina Piccolo, cartoonist of Tina’s Groove, has launched a new web site to showcase her strip. She also has a new book called “Tina’s Groove : A Cartoon Collection by Rina Piccolo”.
I missed this write up about Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy in the Des Moines Regsiter. If your a fan of his work, this is a good read. It takes an hour each time Conley draws Bucky Katt. Simply drawing one week’s worth of panels takes about 40 hours; that doesn’t include thinking up ideas and […]
TV Squad has a short blip about the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show that ran on Saturday morning television back in the early 80’s. Also mentioned is Garfield and Friends that soon followed. Other than the fact that The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was sandwiched among more thrilling and kinetic animated programming, trying […]
An indoor amusement park that has been using the name “Camp Snoopy” will soon be losing the rights to use the name. The megamall lost the rights to the comic-strip characters this spring and is still trying to reach a new agreement with the syndicate that controls the creations of the late Charles Schulz. Camp […]
There is a nice article in the Maine Today about Wiley Miller and his connection to the state of Maine, how it creeps into his strip, and how the Maine Sunday Telegram is now finally running his work. Make that 701 subscribers now. The Maine-based storyline is one of the “comic strips within a comic […]
I missed this story which ran on nj.com (New Jersey) about Patrick McDonnell’s new book “The Gift of Nothing”. The article also discusses Patrick’s attempt to keep life in the slow lane. “To tell you the truth,” he chuckled, “I don’t get out much anyway. A cartoonist’s life is like a monk’s life, very solitary. […]
Boston’s NPR station has an audio interview with cartoonist Chris Ware who is one of the cartoonists for the New York Time’s comic section. They talk about his new collection called “The Acme Novelty Library (Acme Novelty Library)“