Dallas Morning News columnist Mike Peters as a write up about Reed Hover – a texan who has submitted sent in hundreds of ideas to Pluggers, the panel first created by Jeff MacNelly, now drawn by Gary Brookins. Gary says he get’s a lot of submissions from Texas as well as a guy named Brad from South Carolina. Over-all he gets a hundred ideas via mail and hundreds more via email.
John Rose, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News Record and artist for the comic Barney Google and Snuffy Smith will be on hand at the Tidewater Community College to lecture and sit on a panel regarding political cartons and first amendment freedoms. The event is this Wednesday. He’ll also be signing books.
Julie Larson, creator of Dinette Set, has a new Sunday collection book out entitled ‘Sunday Best’ and will be out doing signings. If you’re in the Illinois area, go see her at the Peoria Main Library on the 26th of October and in Charleson Cargegie Library on the 5th of November. Visit her web site for times.Â
The weekly New York Press has named Ruben Bolling’s Tom the Dancing Bug Manhattan’s Best Comic Strip. The paper’s yearly “Best of Manhattan Reader Poll” was published September 27.
Yesterday’s Zits had an easter egg. Not a real Easter egg, but a hidden novelty known only to Jim Borgman. The strip featured Jeremy and his dad, Walter. Walter is wearing a t-shirt that says “Nutter Fort” in the first panel, “West Virginia” in the third and back to “Nutter Fort” in the last. A Charleston Gazette reporter got Jim on the phone to figure what the special message was.
This year’s Newspaper Enterprise Association’s holiday comic strip will be Mark Leiknes’ Cow & Boy.
With all the recent celebratory events and commemorations of the comic Dick Tracy‘s 75 year anniversary, one would be surprised to read that the Gould family has told the Woodstock City Council that the museum is in need of donations to keep the doors open. The museum draws 4,000 to 7,000 visitors a year and has an operating budget of $40,000. The Gould family contributes the lion share of the financial support, but requires $25,000 in annual donations to operate. With a recognizable brand name such as Dick Tracy, one would think money would not be an issue, but TMS owns all the rights to royalties for the brand, so the Gould family doesn’t see any of that money.
I mentioned yesterday that several cartoonist from around the globe had descended in Manhattan to talk about cartooning, free speech and religion. Attending from the U.S. is Mike Luckovich. From ComicsDC blog comes news that Ann Telnaes was also there and that you can watch the streaming video. To watch it, click the link and scroll down to the Special Event on October 16 (or do a find on “cartoon”).
New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff was in Denver last night as the featured guest at the Denver Press Club. The event was hosted by Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe and Rocky Mountain News cartoonist Ed Stein.
Doug Marlette will be in Hillsborough on October 29th to attend a reading sponsored by the Orange County Public Library. Doug’s book, Magic Time has been released and is available for purchase.
The are testing out Baby Blues, F minus, Lio, Over the Hedge, Red and Rover, Soup to Nutz, and Watch Your Head.You can head over and vote now. The do ask for an email address, gender, age, etc. I took the poll twice, so unless they’re filtering it on the back end, it looks like this survey could be easily hi-jacked.
Michael Jantz’s art work will be featured at Cartoonlandia in San Francisco on October 19. Mark Fiore’s work will also be shown.
Open Season is still doing well in theaters after three weekends. So far the film has grossed $59 million domestically ($63 worldwide).
Darrin Bell has announced on his blog that his new book, Another Stereotype Bites the Dust: A Candorville Collection, is hot off the press and will be on store shelves shortly. If you can’t wait for the retail store, he has a few copies that he can sell you off of his web site and they come autographed and with a sketch of one of the characters as well. Visit his web site for details.
E&P reports that a wall from a Colorado Springs home where Charles Schulz lived has been removed and sent to the Charles M…. The wall had been repainted by later residents, but Stan and Polly Travnicek who bought the home in 1979, learned about the paintings underneath and successfully removed the layers of paint to reveal the original artwork below (consisting of characters from Peanuts and other storybooks).