And so, we go from yesterday’s loveable loser to this unloveable loser.When life hands you the milk of human kindness, the Piranha Club will make it into healthy, delicious yoghurt. I have to say that I am really burning out on mean-spirited sarcasm as a punchline, particularly the fad in comics of creating a misanthropic […]
A bit late on this one, but a heartfelt congratulations to Guy Endore-Kaiser who popped the question to his girlfriend Renee Robichaux in the November 13th Brevity. From a News-Press article: “We’ve been together almost five years and I’ve been doing the strip for about five years. I didn’t know the particulars of where to […]
Not only is Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup the top selling Cathy replacement – it’s also hitting a major milestone: 15 years in syndication.Stone Soup debuted on November 20, 1995. Congrats, Jan!
Poor Monty has been recovering from a broken heart for the past week or so, and the only positive note is that, in this case, as he’s expressing his sorrow, you are not only allowed, but encouraged, to laugh in his face.Apparently, you’re not supposed to do that in real life. Or so I’ve been […]
Washington Post Writers Group is launching Donna A. Lewis’ Reply All on February 28. Donna’s strip is described as an exploration of the “value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one’s self-perception.”Donna is a D.C. attorney by profession. Her first foray into cartooning was a web comic […]
Bluewater Productions is releasing a second Sarah Palin comic book in December. Female Force: Sarah Palin, Act 2 focuses on Palin’s life after the 2008 presidential elections. The book examines the reasons behind Palin’s increasing celebrity, and the threat that she might pose to both Democrats and mainstream Republicans should she decide to run in […]
Gotta admit the Green Lantern wasn’t the super-hero I identified with. I wasn’t even aware there was an alien component in the story’s history. Movie due out June of next year.
And you thought moving Prickly City to DC was a change! Keith Knight has just added a whole new set of complications to the Knight Life.This one was easier to see coming — Knight has been chronicling the pregnancy in virtually real-time, wringing every laugh out of that part of the process. And, while […]
Wicked Local (Concord) has an article about Beetle Baily creator Mort Walker and his career and beginnings. After basic training, he found himself stationed at Camp Crowder, which was the Midwest training center for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was to be a radio repair technician. Walker still has no idea why. ?Of all […]
You’d think that Jef Mallett, noted endurance athlete, overall health freak and occasional wearer of Spandex, would join in the cartoonists’ chorus of routinely decrying hunting.But he’s a native Michigander and a bluecollar guy at heart and I suspect he grew up with an understanding of where it all fits into local lifestyles and economics, […]
It’s All About You creator Tony Murphy has decide to end his strip citing lack of client papers. Tony’s strip has been in syndication for almost three years but dates back to 2004 when it ran in the Metro in New York and Boston. When asked what he enjoyed most about the strip he said, […]
King Features comic subscription product, DailyInk, is raising their yearly rate on December 15 from $15 to $19.99. New subscribers or renewing subscribers signing up before December 15 save the extra $4.99. DailyInk has also announced that they are soon taking their comics to the iPhone, iPod and Ipad in the near future. The app […]
We find ourselves today in the suburbs, where small children in white bathrobes learn to break boards using a variety of disciplines, or at least to strike poses suggesting that they might later break a board. Or go to McDonald’s. I’ve seen them do all of those things.In today’s Cul de Sac, Ernesto discusses the […]
Babelgum and RingTales have posted a series of interviews with notable cartoonists about their process and their comics as animations. The series is entitled, Cartoon Masters.Masters presented so far include: Bob Mankoff Drew Dernavich Isaac Eddy Mark Tatulli Michael Fry Paul Gilligan Richard Thompson Stephan Pastis Here’s a sample with Richard Thompson.
Interesting story from the Chicago Tribune about Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander’s new blog. Having a blog isn’t new – a lot of artists have them. What I find interesting is how an artist feels about losing a paper – not just any client paper – but their hometown paper. When the Tribune dismissed “Sylvia” from […]