Filed under: Comic Strips

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (A-HAA) blog has posted some great Chic Young and Blondie material that’s worth a few minutes of your time. Hat tip: Dirk Deppey

Months after its rumored return, Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks is scheduled to return to the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on October 8. The second season is only 15 episodes, but will feature the voice talent of many celebrities including: Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah, Cee-lo, Lil Wayne, Donald Faison, Aisha Tyler, Kym Whitley, Tichina […]

I received an email from Dave Dotson regarding a couple of significant milestones for his self-syndicated feature Outzkirts. He reports that not only his his feature in 50 papers nation-wide but that he’s also picked up the Jacksonville Daily Progress, his first daily. He also mentions that the Kerrville Daily Times in Texas is planning […]

Yesterday, a large memorial was held in honor of Phil Frank, who drew Farley for the San Francisco Chronicle for 22 years. The crowd neared 2000 people and a good number of them were dressed up in their favorite costumes based on characters in the strip. Attending the service included members of his family, Phil […]

Only a couple of line-up changes that I’m aware of. Candorville creator Darrin Bell reports on his blog that Lalo Alcaraz’ La Cucaracha has been dropped in favor of Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle. John Hambrock, creator of The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee reports on his blog that his feature was recently dropped by Rocky […]

Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be presented a 2007 Media Award by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association bringing attention to “Aphasia” a disorder often brought out as a result of a stroke or brain injury. In her comic feature, the grandfather character struggles to regain his speech after a stroke. The […]

Chicago Tribune Public Editor Timothy McNulty has written a response to many a questioning readers as to why a September 14th Get Fuzzy strip was yanked and what criteria does the paper use to determine whether a comic feature should be removed. Readers asked why the Sept. 14th Get Fuzzy, which used the words like […]

Four cartoonists, whose works appear in the Cavalier Daily, have quit in protest over the firing of Grant Woolard who’s cartoon depicting nine naked black men fighting with chairs, sticks and boots with the caption of “Ethiopian Food Fight.” The departing cartoonists include Ellisha Marongelli, Joe Shaver, Chen Song and Laura Lin. Their departure leaves […]

In continuation of an earlier story I reported on a couple of weeks ago regarding a controversial cartoon depicting a hispanic girl imprisoned in a closet forced to drink urine. Over a 100 students gathered outside the paper’s offices last Tuesday to protest the comic and demand that the editor be fired. Because the paper […]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has posted an interview Tom Spurgeon coducted with Amy Lago, editor of the Washington Post Writers Group regarding the dropped Opus comics back in late August and early September.An excerpt: SPURGEON: Are you worried about any of the potential free speech elements to this incident, that it might be […]

Mike Rhode reports that Richard Thompson, creator of Cul-de-Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac, will be hte featured speaker at the Writer’s Center. He’ll talk about “how he finds and develops ideas and will share samples of work in process.”Mike indicates that the event is free, but possibly requires a RSVP.

Despite having a $100,000 bounty on his head (an additional $50k if he’s beheaded), Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who is now in hiding after publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, is in reported good spirits. Mr Vilks, who lives in an isolated area of Sweden, has been […]

In continuation of the partnership between Universal Press and Lulu.com, a new comic collection for Stone Soup has been released. The book by Stone Soup creator, Jan Eliot, is entitled “There’s No ‘WE’ in Crowning!” and is largely on the topic of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and midwifery. This book can be purchased for $8.95 for […]

E&P has the story that Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk will be making at least 15 scheduled appearances across the country to promote his book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” which contains the story-lines of Lisa’s battle with cancer. Check the E&P story for dates and locations which range from Ohio, Texas and California.I typically […]

In what appears to be a sequel to last year’s Dutch Mohammed cartoon, al-Qaida groups inside Iraq are offering rewards for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks, and his newspaper editor after they published a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed’s head on the body of a dog sculpture. The bounty is $150,000 for […]