According to an article on Mint, comic strip characters have the recognition of celebrities at a fraction of the cost when it comes to businesses using them to build brand recognition and advertising campaigns. Due to an economic downturn worldwide, using comic strip characters is a growing trend because in addition to the cost, the […]
Most of the comic changes listed below have been reported before, but here we go:» The Kennebec Journal picked up Non Sequitur to replace Opus on Sundays. They’ve included an interview with creator Wiley Miller in the announcement.» Candorville and Secret Asian Man are in trial mode at the Sacramento Bee.» The Lawrence Journal-World replaced […]
Norm Feuti, creator of Retail, has announced that he is launching his strip Gill as a webcomic beginning today. Gill is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the life of an 8-year-old boy who lives under less than ideal circumstances. Gill is overweight. His parents are divorced. His mother struggles to maintain […]
Smart Bomb Interactive has announced that they are releasing a new video game entitled Snoopy Flying Ace the first months of 2010. The video game is described as having, “action, adventure, romance, cow-tipping, and other exercises in heroism too numerous to name.”You can see a video preview of the game at their website.
The Keith Knight cartoon that caused a ruckus in The Montclair State University (NJ) campus paper over the use of the “n-word” has caused another stir in the The Arizona Daily Wildcat (Tuscan, AZ). Lauren LePage, the editor-in-chief told angry protestors that the cartoon was the result of a miscommunication between herself and the managing […]
Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells’ webcomic Skin Horse has joined the GoComics lineup this week. Skin Horse has been running daily since January and is “about the staff of Project Skin Horse, a secret government organization dedicated to the protection of Americaâ??s nonhuman citizens: robots, beast-men, zombies, and other neglected products of mad […]
In Robert B. Parker’s latest mystery novel “Rough Weather,” he mentions Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup. On page 269, he writes, “I was studying a strip called Stone Soup, which seemed pretty good, and might fill the void left by Calvin & Hobbes, when Maggie Lane came in to see me.”This is not the first time […]
If you were one of the millions of individuals who tried to get to Berkeley Breathed’s web site on Sunday to learn who correctly guessed the Opus ending, you were not alone in your frustration that the server became overwhelmed. According to the L.A. Times, Berkeley’s website received 10-15 million hits compared to the 1,500 […]
Over the weekend, United Media rolled out a radically new designed Comics.com and announced that their paid subscription model service was retired in favor of free, unfettered, full access to all their 92 comic features and 45 editorial cartoonists. Comics.com went from one of the most expensive paid subscription comic services to completely free. Free […]
» Comic Book Resources posted their last profile of historic editorial cartoonists. Go read about Art Young.» Karen Montague-Reyes has posted the last two “road to syndication” articles on her blog. Part 3 and part 4.» The Aaugh blog notes that the latest Complete Peanuts volume (vol. 11) The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972“>is now available for […]
In addition to the announcements from the syndicates as to what features newspapers were picking to replace the outgoing Opus, the following papers have announced their changes:The Tulsa World has picked up Mutts to run in the Sunday only slot vacated by Opus.The Sacramento Bee is going to trial run Secret Asian Man and Candorville […]
Darrin Bell’s venerable Toon Talk comic forum has moved to a new location to escape the ever growing onslaught of spam. Toon Talk is now hosted on Ning – a social network type service that, in addition to the forum that made Toon Talk a worthwhile destination, also allows it’s community members to create blogs, […]
Berkeley Breathed’s final Opus appeared today. The comic that appeared in newspapers directed readers to the Humane Society’s web site to see the final panel which depicted Opus in children’s storybook, “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. Berkeley’s own web site appeared to be struggling under the traffic load. Berkeley reports on his website that […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Slapstick Magazine, a periodical for published for comedians, comedy writers, comedy club fans, etc, recently interviewed Randy Glasbergen about his prolific career as a cartoonist and specifically about his weekly feature “Thin Lines” that is syndicated through Creators.4. How long have you been illustrating characters? I began my career in 1972 while I was in […]