Filed under: Comic Strips

A hearty congratulations goes out to Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson and his family for the new arrival of their son Liam Maxwell.Congrats Brian.

Joshua Fruhlinger over at Comics Curmudgeon, posts news that Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lante artist, has announced that Pibgorn has left comics.com to find a new home online. Here is the note: With United Media’s announcement that “Pibgorn” is to be discontinued, I have been inundated with e-mail, much of it agitated and distressed. I’m […]

According to E&p, Rubes cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has created an opening-sequence animation for an independent film entitled “Moola” that opens this Friday at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California

Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury has been hitting conservatives pretty hard this last couple of weeks (and in many cases, deservedly so). At least one conservative blogger is taking issue with one Doonesbury that brings to light the fact that the family values banner waving GOP front-runners have a mired history of adultery and divorce. Trudeau is […]

Two stories of interest on the topic of where the future lies for comics. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks at the grown of web comics and interviews the usual suspects, Scott Kurtz (PVP), Scott McCloud, and Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame. Scott McCloud: “It defies reason to think this isn’t a […]

Last March I told you about Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice’s new comic strip The Green House which they are launching on Earth Day (this Sunday). The strip is going the route of self-syndication. Greener living is the long-term goal of Gilchrist and Menice, who are marketing their comics through Internet subscriptions and through self-syndication […]

Greg Evans, who does the Luann comic, will be on hand this Saturday to draw sketches of from his comic for those who are donating blood during a blood drive at Valley Blood Services – something he’s done for 20 years now. Also on hand will be Doreen Dotson, the creator of Outskirtz.Greg is volunteering […]

Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id died yesterday at the age of 86 in Lynchburg Va. His death was preceded only by 8 days of Johnny Hart, the other creator of Wizard of Id. “Id” will be continued by his son, Jeff, who has been working on the feature since 1997.

Prickly City creator Scott Stantis will be a featured speaker on First Amendment protection for media on May 4th in Kansas City. The forum is part of the 20th Media and Law Seminar.

King Features is set to launch a new comic feature on May 6th called My Cage – a manga-influenced strip by Melissa DeJesus (artist) and Ed Power (writer). From the press release: The strip’s name is a parody of the monolithic “My Space” social networking site and is comprised of vignettes that explore the trials […]

According to E&P, Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis will be the next guest on Bob Andelman’s “Fridays with Mr. Media” blog. The topic for the day will be “the unique pressures on African-American cartoonists” and last’s month’s death of King Editor in Chief Jay Kennedy.” You can check out the blog by going to mrmedia.com

Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus is coming out with a new children’s book called Mars Needs Moms and will be promoting the book at various locations around the country. Here are the dates and times so far:Friday, May 4th, 7pm, Willow Book & Caf, 279 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720Saturday, May […]

Bill Griffith uses his Zippy the Pinhead comic to pay tribute to Jay Kennedy who died last month while vacationing in Costa Rica.On a Zippy related note, Bill will be speaking at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus according to E&P. His topic: “Up from the Underground with Zippy: 38 Years and Still Climbing.”

I enjoyed this article by Stew Rieckman, executive editor of The Northwestern (Oshkosh WI), who related his readership’s response after he gave a local cartoonist a 30 day trial run on the funny pages – more or less to be a nice guy. His readership became verbally abusive when the new strip took Crankshaft’s place. […]

Johnny Hart, age 76, has died Saturday from a stroke at his drawing board in Nineveh, NY. Johnny is the creator of B.C. and The Wizard of Id. From an Washington Post story about Johnny’s history: John Lewis Hart, a firefighter’s son, was born Feb. 18, 1931, in Endicott, N.Y. As a child, he said […]