After 18,000 votes, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has brought back two comics that were dropped last week. The two features returning are Kevin & Kell and Judge Parker. The exact votes were not reported for any of the poll results, but is the list of the features in descending order from high to low votes: Hagar […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Dave Horsey is in D.C. for the Barack Obama Inauguration as is Rob Tornoe, a freelancer for Editor and Publisher.Already in the area, look for cartoons by Matt Wuerker of Politico, Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner, Bill Garner of The Washington Times and Tom Toles of the Washington Post.Cul de Sac creator […]
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro will be featured along with writer John Ostrander (Batman, Star Wars, Wolverine, The Kents, Apache Skies) in a panel discussion entitled “Western and Native Portrayals in Comics” in Indianapolis, IN on January 24th at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Dan was invited because of his frequent use […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced earlier this week that they were cutting one full page of comics. I haven’t been able to find a list of which features were spared or cut. From a CNN blog, Todd Leopold (CNN.com Entertainment Producer) only mentions Judge Parker and Mary Worth as those among the cut with Curtis and […]
Tom Mason over at Comix 411 has an interview with Dan Thompson about his newly launched comic strip, Rip Haywire. TOM: Can you trace the road from development to acceptance with Rip? How did it get from your desk to UFS and how long was the journey? DAN: Once I came up with the idea […]
» Mike Cavna scores an interview with legendary Spider-Man creator Stan Lee about the recent changes to the Spider-Man franchise – comics, comic strip and movies.» The Swann Fellowship is awarded to qualified graduate student to support scholarly research into caricature and cartoons. The application deadline to be considered is February 13. The award amount […]
The Strange World of Mr. Mum, which began a 12 year run in syndication between 1958 and 1970s, is back. This time the wordless panel is available as a daily email subscription offering. Mr. Mums was created by Irving Phillips who was humor editor of Esquire magazine and wrote gags for W.C. Fields and the […]
With all the doom and gloom in the newspaper industry, I find this story interesting. Joshua Karp is launching a twice-daily free print newspaper in Chicago, San Francisco and later in New York City with content from blogs on January 27. The idea is to take local content from blogs and print them in tabloid […]
Opus wasn’t the only strip to come to a close with the Bush presidency. Webcomic Get Your War On by David Rees was a “hilarious and profane perspective on George W. Bush’s War on Terror.” His comic was printed in book collections and inspired a series of animated video adaptations. With the comic closure, Comic […]
The Colombia’s coffee growers federation has opted to drop its $20 million lawsuit against Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters according to a report on Colombiareports.com. Citing sources within the federation, representatives of the association have met with Mike and have accepted his apology. They’ve also extended an invitation to Mike to travel to […]
Tom Mason has a great interview with Dean Mullaney, who started Eclipse Comics and most recently is editing and designing the Library of American Comics, a series of classy comic strip reprint hardcovers, published through IDW. The topic of the interview is Noel Sickles, a contemporary of Milt Caniff who create the action strip Scorchy […]
» Mike Cavna asks editorial cartoonists what they’ll miss most about George W. Bush.» David Horsey posts a cartoon reacting to the news that his paper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is going up for sale or possibly closing down. » Last week, Jeff Kinney, creator of the “Diary of the Wimpy Kid” series is profiled in […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters talks to Mike Cavna about the impending lawsuit by the The Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers.Phil Johnson does a weekly cartoon for ITworld.com called IT Underworld – geek humor for, well, geeks. The feature was picked up back in October as a trial, but the tech site has […]
» The Valley Independent has dropped Monty, Herman, Alley Oop and Cow and Boy and replaced them with Blondie, The Family Circus. Looks like a net loss of two.» The Northwest Herald is dropping Spider-Man and Peanuts in favor of Pickles and Pearls Before Swine.» The News Review has picked up five new features: Get […]
At the first of this year, the Popeye character entered into the public domain in Europe. In the US, the copyright is still in play until 2024 because US law protects works for 95 years after the death of the creator instead of the 70 years that Europe observes. That said, King Features still owns […]