Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy is detailing her early efforts to get Between Friends into syndication. So far it’s a part 4 series with more coming. Head over to her blog: Part One deals with her first attempt at national syndicationPart Two details a humorous story on her first attempt to pitch the strip to […]
Investor’s Business Daily has an interesting article on how Dilbert creator Scott Adams got into comics. The article might not shed a great deal of new information on Dilbert history, but it’s worth your time. Adams continued to draw, but mostly for amusement at the office. “I would often draw little comics on a white […]
WBNG has a follow-up to their story yesterday about Johnny Hart’s family taking over the B.C. feature after he passed away last April. This segment reveals some of the changes that have been made with the strip and who in the family is working on the strip. From the story we learn that Johnny’s daughter […]
E&P reports that a play co-written by Rhymes with Orange cartoonist Hilary Price entitled “Santacide” will be performed next month in Northampton Mass by the Northhampton High School Theater. The comedy play is about a mother and son detective team investigating Santa’s murder. While the play has had a reading in Smith College last year, […]
Mark Anderson has posted his first pod/video cast.
From the For Better or For Worse web site comes two links to videos with Lynn Johnston produced by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. The first is a 17 minute video profiling Lynn at work and home. And then they have another feature called “Life in a Comic Strip” that runs 13 minutes and covers his […]
Over on the Hogan’s Alley discusssion board is a brief interview with Dan Piraro and Dave Coverly regarding their inclusion into Parade Magazine. It appears that they were sought out by the magazine and that their work will appear on a not-set-but-probably-every-other-week schedule.
Local CBS affiliate WBNG is profiling the Hart family who took over the B.C. comic strip after Johnny Hart died last April. The family is working through their loss at their own pace, but all seem to benefit from carrying on the comic feature. One quote struck me as a contradiction to earlier reports regarding […]
A couple of comic strip pick ups and drops to report this week. Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine is now in the Salinas Californian in Dilbert’s spot. Scott Adam’s Dilbert has been moved ot the back of the National/World section. Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac makes a debut in The Detroit Free Press as of […]
Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming book Sepia Tome: Telling Dad’s World War II Story. Tyler’s comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen’s Comix twenty years ago. Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005. Late Bloomer […]
I knew Craig Boldman over in the NCS Great Lakes Chapter would come through with photos of the OSU Festival of Cartoon Art, after all, it’s in their backyard. Enough of my yammering… go check ’em out.
The Erie Times-News has released the results of their comic poll. Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse was the most read feature in their paper with a 88.3% readership. It’s noted that family strips dominated the top 5 most read features. Aside from FBoFW, the next 4 in line are: Pickles (85%), Hi & […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams participated in a Q&A on the Freakonomics blog on Wednesday. It’s a long Q&A, but an interesting read. Tucked in that interview is a hint that one of his regular characters will die “soon.” He wouldn’t disclose when or who. Further into the interview he’s asked how far ahead he produces […]
From most reports Mike Peters had the most entertaining presentation of the OSU Festival of Cartoon Art last weekend. Thanks to Mark Anderson, we have video of the last 7 minutes of Mike’s presentation.
Yesterday’s and today’s Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller are dealing with distorted biographies for the sake of selling more books. The storyline includes the Danae character questioning her father about his childhood with the intent to write her own distorted biography in the event he becomes famous. The timing of the material might suggest that […]