Filed under: Comic Strips

From the Three Men in a Tub blog comes a little gem. Roy Schneider, creator of the feature Humble Stumble, has written his own theme song. It’s found on YouTube. See below.

The Fayetteville Observer is trying to find a suitable replacement for Doug Marlette’s Kudzu, and like most paper’s they offered a poll. The results indicate there is a generational shift happening in the comic pages today. Instead rolling out the poll results, they interviewed their readers, an associate professor, and a syndication president. According to […]

The L.A. Times has an extensive profile on Aaron McGruder and his work on the second season of the television version of The Boondocks. Aaron talks about the difficulties of putting out the comic while being thrown into making an animated television show, what to expect in season two that starts next week, more use […]

Editor and Publisher reports that Phil Frank has received, posthumously, the first Herb Caen lifetime achievement award by the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club. The award is named after Herb Caen, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist who died in 1997.

Tony Carrillo’s’, F Minus has been named “Best Syndicated Comic Strip” by Phoenix New Times. They also have a funny Q and A with Tony. The report that F Minus is in 125 newspapers across the country.

Matt Janz’ Single and Looking is in trial mode over at the Winston-Salem Journal. The announcement comes with an article explaining Matt’s recent decision to change the title of his feature, which used be called “Out of the Gene Pool.”

Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander was on NPR yesterday talking about her new book called “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial.” The book is a humorous look at getting older. The book was published by Broadway book.From the description of the book: Nicole Hollander grew up in the nineteen-fifties, when women of a certain […]

La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz will be speaking and signing books at the 5th Annual Houston Latino Book & Family Festival in Houston on Saturday and Sunday.On Saturday he’ll field questions from other attendees regarding his comic feature and then on Sunday he’ll panel a discussion entitled, “How to Be a World-Famous Cartoonist” where he’ll […]

Richard Thompson, creator of Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac has started blogging. The blog features sketches and an interesting story of a dinner with syndicate executives. It was only started Monday, so we’ll see where it goes.

Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about all his feature, his book and his move to Maine. Was it hard to sell the syndicate on a strip without characters or themes, just focusing entirely on the funny? At the time, yes. I created this during a severe recession […]

Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the PinHead will be a featured speaker at this year’s Small Press Expo (SPX) in Maryland on Oct. 12 and 13. Bill “will deliver a heavily illustrated slideshow talk about his life and work to date.” SPX will also present its 11th annual Ignatz award for outstanding achievement in comics […]

While we all sit around trying to think of what the newspaper based cartooning industry is going to look like in the next 5-10 years, I’ve found three stories that I believe indicate factors and trends that will have a big impact on print cartooning.Firstly Gannett newspapers are looking to reduce their paper size from […]

I’ve received confirmation from King Features that the Funky Winkerbean character, Lisa Moore, will pass away on Thursday October 4. The story-line will ultimately conclude on October 26th upon which the comic feature will leap 10 years into the future and focus on the sons and daughters of the strip’s original characters.In addition to the […]

Readers of the Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY) were asked if they should replace Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse now that it was 28 years old and starting to run old material. The response was 95% no. The paper has responded that it won’t drop the feature.

Over on Comic Book Resources is a great, and lengthy interview with Gary Gianni who began to take over on the art work on Prince Valiant in 2000 while John Cullen Murphy transitioned out. Gary also talks about a Prince Valiant art book that is due out next year which will include reproductions of preliminaries, […]