A couple items in the Peanuts universe:Two Peanuts movies are going to DVD.Both A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) and Snoopy Come Home (1972), each released in theaters a few years after A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown aired on television, will be available in digital versatile style on March […]
With the shake up at the Kansas City Star, a few features have been dropped. One of the features being dropped is “Spot the Frog” by Mark Heath. On his blog he says, Having the Spot sunday in The Star was a pleasure. They were printed with fidelity — not a given when it comes […]
The Kansas City Star will drop two pages from their Sunday comic section to cut expenses.Several changes in FYI and the Sunday comics take effect Sunday and Monday. We like some, and hope you do, too, and regret others. Beginning Sunday, the comics section will lose two pages. Paper is a major cost at any […]
Aaron McGruder, creator of “Boondocks“, has desires to expand his empire. According to this little tidbit on EURWeb, Aaron is aiming for a full feature film as well as video games.Aaron McGruder has revealed plans to expand his ?Boondocks? comic strip and Cartoon Network television series into a feature film and video game, reports Karu […]
Patrick McDonnell, creator of “Mutts” announced on his web site that his book “Gift of Nothing” has made it to #8 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children’s Picture Books.Back in December, his book made it to #8 on the NYT Best Seller List.
Big Nate, created by Lincoln Peirce, is celebrating 15 years on the comic pages. From a United Media press release:“When I started Big Nate, one of my goals was to create a comic character who seemed authentic — not a miniature adult, but a believable eleven year-old boy,” creator Lincoln Peirce said. After fifteen years […]
Good news for employees at the Charlotte Observer, their editor Rick Thames has decided to cut the number of pages in the paper rather than jobs.“Given a choice of where to reduce costs, I?m going to do my best to keep the great staff that we have,” Thames said, citing myriad studies that show readers […]
Mark Anderson’s blog reports that the Masters of American Comics exhibit will be traveling to Milwaukee between April 29 and August 13, 2006.You can read more about the exhibit and get more details (tickets and contact information) at Milwaukee Art Musuem’s web site.
The Boondocks television series has been nominated for “Outstanding Comedy Series” by the NAACP. Other shows nominated for that category include: “The Bernie Mac Show,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Girlfriends,” “Half & Half.” The winner will be announced when the awards show is broadcast on March 3rd.
According to this New York Post story(free registration required), the New York Times is losing 20% of it’s local market in the boroughs between 2001 and 2004. Since the mid-1990s, the Times has embarked on a strategy to expand nationally to reduce its dependence on the New York ad market while going head-to-head with other […]
Comic book legend Stan Lee will speak in Springfield Ohio on the 24th of January. You can get details at the Springfield News-Sun, including a audio slide show and directions to the event.While he still holds the title of chairman emeritus at Marvel, and continues to write the same syndicated ?Amazing Spider-Man? newspaper strip he […]
According to E&P, two comic strip artists will appear at the upcoming WonderCon, a comic book convention held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Frank Cho, whose feature “Liberty Meadows” is syndicated by Creators and Romona Fradon, the former artist for “Brenda Starr” will appear. WonderCon runs February 10 through 12.If I’m not mistaken, […]
Back in December, I posted a story about Camp Snoopy losing the right to use the Peanut character’s name. According to this story, negotiations between the supermall and United Media have failed and Camp Snoopy will have to change it’s name.The Bloomington supermall has been unable to come to terms with United Media, which licenses […]
Pat Brady, creator of Rose is Rose is one of the judges for the Scripps Howard Fundation’s annual journalism awards.The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of 43 journalists, media professionals and educators who will judge this year’s National Journalism Awards competition. The awards program honors excellence in 17 print, electronic and journalism education […]
Efforts are underway to create an exhibit to honor Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valient. Harold R. Foster was a native of Nova Scotia. According to his obituary in 1982, written by the Associated Press, he rode a bicycle to Chicago–1,670 miles over 14 days–around 1919 to attend the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy […]