I continue to find more papers that are dropping Johnny Hart’s B.C. and Bryant Parker’s Wizard of Id. Both paper’s appear in the 1000+ newspaper level, so statistically, there was bound to be many papers that dropped the features.The Day (Connecticut), is dropping B.C. and holding a poll to find out who should take it’s […]
A movie based on the Mandrake the Magician comic is heading into production to be a movie. Criss Angel, an illustionist/magician who has a television show called “Mind Freak”, is cast as the main character and will provide some of the special effects. Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask and The Scorpion King has signed […]
Dean Young, son of Blondie creator Chic Young opened up a chain of sandwich shops last year called Dagwood Sandwich Shoppe. The Palm Beach Post food critic, Charles Passy, has written up a review of his recent experience eating there. But the real appeal of Dagwood’s may be its signature Dagwood sandwich. It costs $9.69 […]
Dan Piraro gets a write-up in The Suburban (Quebec) about his feature Bizarro. Some of the material covered includes: life as a syndicated cartoonist, his interest in environmental and animal rights, and religion.
The Commercial Dispatch announced Monday that they have dropped Wizard of Id, B.C. Dennis the Menace and Blondie in a recent redesign of their features section. Non-legacy strips such as Lio, The Other Coast and the Elderberries also were tossed out to make room for seven new features that include: Zits, Baby Blues, Flo and […]
Terry LaBan, co-writer and artist for Edge City talks to Comic Book Resources about his feature.An excerpt: Q. In what ways does the daily format work to your advantage in telling stories and to what degree is it frustrating? A. I don’t think it’s often appreciated what a unique and cool way a daily comic […]
Mikhaela Reid’s The Boiling Point is now on GoComics.Hat tip: E&P
Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press this month. In the last 10 years, the feature has won many awards including: “Hot Comic Strip of the Year,” as named by Rolling Stone magazine; and, second place two years in a row for Best Cartoon in […]
Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos has posted a video of him sketching Baldo on YouTube. Hat Tip: E&P.
Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]
Dan Thompson writes in with the story behind Humorous Maximus‘ temporary closure. Apparently (and allegedly) the site’s own web master copied all the ‘toons off of Humorous Maximus and started his own little site with them and then deleted all the pages from the HM site. Needless to say, Dan and fellow co-founder Jerry King […]
Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be in New York City tomorrow at the Book Expo signing books and then on June 10 and 11, she’ll be at the Book Expo Canada in Toronto signing books. See link above for locations and specifics on time.
The Winston-Salem Journal has a write-up on Leigh Rubin and how he comes up with his material for Rubes. A typical day for Rubin starts when he gets up and takes his dog – part Akita, part-mutt – for a walk. “That’s my good excuse to get going in the morning. Then breakfast, then shower, […]
Jeff Keane, who works on his father’s Family Circus, has been elected president of the National Cartoonist Society beginning this year through 2009. Other members of the board include Dave Coverly, Bill Hinds, Rick Kirkman and Mike Lynch.
The Washington Post has announced that they are adding Sherman’s Lagoon and Lio to their daily round up and dropping B.C. and The Wizard of Id.I can understand editor’s willingness to drop B.C. – the original creator has died and it’s uncertain how well it will continue in “legacy mode”. But to drop The Wizard […]