This week, I’ll be spending much of my normal blogging time working on my presentation that I’ll be giving at the Lakeland Community College Comic Symposium this Saturday. As a result, blog posts here will not always be at the normal time (morning). If you don’t see the blog updated in the morning (8:00 am […]
Universal Press has announced that Bob Harrell will end his comic Big Top on March 25th. In statement by Bob, he says:This was an incredibly difficult decision. The strip, and the characters feel like family to me and I loved every day of doing Big Top. But for both professional and financial reasons, itâ??s time […]
I took today and tomorrow off from work to take care of some personal matters and I won’t have much opportunity to blog the rest of the day, though I hope to be back to full blogging speed tomorrow.
The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of their judges for this year’s national journalism award competitions. Ted Rall, syndicated cartoonist and United Media’s acquisitions & development editor will be one of those judges. The awards will cover 17 print, electronic and journalism education categories with cash prizes equaling $195,000. Winners will be presented […]
The 2007 Lakeland Community College Comic Symposium line-up has been announced. This year’s event will include one syndicated team: John Forgetta and Kathy Dow, creative team for the feature The Meaning of Lila. Other committed speakers include: Dr. Michael Bitz, Founder and Director of The Comic Book Project, Tony Isabella, editor, writer, creator, columnist who […]
Guy Gilchrist, co-creator of Nancy, writes a periodic article called “Drawn To Success” in which he talks and inspires the next generation of cartoonists on how to better their craft and achieve their goals. In his latest column, he introduces an apprentice program to allow six students to be mentored by him for a one, […]
At 78 years of age, Al Scaduto is still going strong doing the daily They’ll Do It Every Time. The Connecticut Post has a write up on Al’s history working on this feature that was first started in 1929 by Jimmy Hatlo.
If you’ve been reading Girls and Sports lately, you’ve noticed that Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus have added a baby and a puppy to their feature to poke fun at comic polls that seem to indicate that features with these characters tend to perform well.
Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, is scheduled to appear on Ohio public television February 17-23 to talk about his journey from painting and auto body work to syndicated comic strip cartoonist. Those in the Ohio area can check here for time listings.
Only two changes this weekend in the funny page line up. The Tribune Democrat ran a month long survey to find a couple of new features. The comics under consideration were Glenn and Gary McCoy’s The Flying McCoys, Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett’s On a Claire Day, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s Baby Blues, Rick […]
From the Comic Rack is a tidbit that The Complete Dick Tracy volumes that were origninally planned to roll out every quarter have been rescheduled to roll out every twice a year. The first volume was released in October by IDW.
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has posted her first animated editorial cartoon on her web site. The flash piece runs about less than a minute and uses actual audio from President Bush as opposed to other editorial cartoon animators who use their own voices.Hat tip: E&P
Just as a FYI, I’m seeing a dramatic increase in the number of spam comments that are being submitted to The Daily Cartoonist. The vast majority are being caught by a spam filter that I use, but some are still getting through – which I apologize. Some of that stuff can be pretty icky.I am […]
According to the Aaugh Blog Fantagraphic books will print a comic book called The Unseen Peanuts which as the name denote features over a 100 strips that were unprinted before their inclusion into The Complete Peanuts collection (also published by Fantagraphics).According to the Aaugh blog author: Not every store will have The Unseen Peanuts. There […]
MSNBC’s Test Pattern (their blog regarding all things entertainment and pop culture) is holding a poll to determine which comic strip should replace FoxTrot, which they’ve been running in reruns since the first of the month. I generally discourage fans of a particular feature from voting in a local newspaper’s comic surveys if they don’t […]