Recent Get Fuzzy strips have depicted the Rob Wilco character with a t-shirt that reads “Darby Cafe, Olympia” – the name of an actual restaurant in the state of Washington. Coincidence? From an article in the Olympian newspaper, it appears that Darby Conley, the strips creator, has a friend in Olympia that would brag about […]
Charlos Gary, creator of Working It Out and Cafe Con Leche has started a blog last Friday. Currently theme of his blog posts are about his experiment of being a full-time cartoonist in New York City for the next month.
I don’t follow Popeye very much, so I was a bit perplexed when I came across this blog post in the Philadelphia weekly reporting on Wednesday and Thursday’s installment of the feature that depicts Olive Oyl with a gun to her head threatening suicide. Did Popeye cross a line? Is suicide a topic we can […]
Mike Lynch, the ever present with camera cartoonist, has this year’s Bunny Bash documented with photos.
Jan Eliot’s current story line about Joan’s pregnancy and baby delivery is being met by many midwives and mothers as a welcomed examination of alternative childbirth methods discussed on the comic pages. Jan is receiving many emails on a daily basis supporting the current story line. From one email: So many people believe that the […]
Comic Reporter Tom Spurgeon reports that the Andy Capp statue that was proposed last fall will be unveiled later this week. I haven’t been able to get to the Hartlepool Mail’s web site to actually read the details. Once the site is serving out pages again, I’ll see what new developments have been made.UPDATED: The […]
PreTeena creator Allison Barrows and some of her characters have joined a kids-safe networking site (AllyKatzz.com) for tween age girls (9-15) in efforts to “hear comments from the girls, gain suggestions, and really get into this age-group’s head.” The partnership offers Alison the opportunity to become engaged with her sample audience.It doesn’t appear that the […]
Andrews McMeel Universal (the parent company of Universal Press Syndicate) has been nominated as a Top Company in Kansas City. The distinction is shared by 9 other companies and a single Top Company will be announced on August 24th. The criteria for this award include: “company’s contributions, innovations, work culture, customer service, transactions, challenges, community […]
Forbes.com has a write up about Tom Stern’s CEO Dad book entitled How To Avoid Getting Fired By Your Family. Mentioned are Tom’s efforts to get his strip into television.
Over on the For Better or For Worse web site, the blog that was maintained by fictional character April is now being maintained by fictional character Elly and non-fictional character Lynn (just roll with it – it’s all in fun). I laughed at one of the first new blog posts under this new arrangement as […]
Over at Cecil Vortex’s blog, he has an interesting interview with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro. CV: I understand that to syndicate a cartoon, you first need to stockpile a large number of comics. Was that a challenge for you? DP: Early on it was very hard. See, on the one hand, I really love starting […]
Cul De Sac © Richard Thompson; Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate Richard Thompson’s new feature Cul De Sac just might be the break away comic strip release this year and not because it has some big name endorsements from Bill Watterson and Pat Oliphant, but because it is a really polished feature that has some […]
Mike Lynch has posted his photos from this last weekend’s Mocca Festival as well as posting links to other camera toting artist/bloggers who’ve posted their photos (scroll to bottom of page).UPDATE: Comics reporter has combined a much greater list of blogs, photos and news stories surrounding this year’s Mocca.
The Beat blog posts a write up on bumping into Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker and an update on the cartoon museum Mort has diligently worked on for so long.As it stands now, the art that was once housed in the museum is sitting in storage in Stamford, CT. Walker told us that Ohio State […]
Just last week, I wrote that the Bristol Herald Courier was giving Jeff MacNelly’s Shoe the boot to make room for a new feature and that a good ol’ fashion paper ballot poll was underway to find out which new feature (Get Fuzzy, Zits, For Better For Worse and Pickles) ought to take its place. […]