According to the Daily Breeze, a public memorial service for Paul Conrad is set for this Saturday at 11 a.m. at the St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Rancho Palos Verdes. Paul passed away last Saturday at the age of 86. You can read obituaries from the NY Times and the LA Times
The Charles M. Schulz Museum will host 16 cartoonist this Saturday to commemorate Peanuts 60th anniversary. The cartoonist that will be on hand for the sketch-a-thon include Bizarro creator Dan Piraro, All Over Coffee creator Paul Madonna, Rhoda Draws, Mike Gray, Brent Anderson, Michael Capozzola, Alexis Fajardo, Brian Fies, Shaenon Garrity, Debbie Huey, Greg Knight, […]
Dreamworks and NBC are scheduling a several half-hour holiday specials this fall according to Hollywood Reporter. Scared Shrekless is a Halloween special set to air on October 28. Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special will air a special on Nov. 24 with Merry Madagascar.
The LA Times reports that Spy vs. Spy and other MAD Magazine classic cartoons are now on the Cartoon Network as a 15 minute comedy show. Noelene Clark has posted an interview with the show’s producers Mark Marek and Kevin Shinick. NC: How did the idea for a Mad magazine-inspired cartoon end up on Cartoon […]
Earlier last month I reported that Cyanide & Happiness co-creator Dave McElfatrick was having issues getting a visa to work inside the US with his other co-creators. I received an email from Rob DenBleyker that Dave was able to get a 0-1 Visa which is good for 3 years allowing him to come to the […]
Chic Young’s Blondie first debuted in newspapers 80 years ago today. The strip featured Blondie, a hip young flapper and Dagwood, the son of a rich industrial tycoon. Dagwood’s father disapproved of Blondie and marrying her resulted in disinheritance, banishment to suburbia and running into the mailman to catch the car-pool.Chic drew the strip until […]
I’m generally hesitant to feature a strip twice within the same story arc, but, since story arcs at Pirate Cove can run on for a year or so, that’s not a rule I can expect to apply here. And, while the twice-a-month rule doesn’t exist anyway, I’m going to waive it here because today’s strip […]
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I shouldn’t laugh at today’s Lio.I mean, it’s Beetle Bailey’s 60th anniversary, after all, and, besides, I interviewed Mort Walker a few years ago and found him to be a charming and interesting guy with a lot of accomplishments under his belt.On the other hand, back around Beetle’s 40th anniversary, I wrote a column the […]
As constant readers will have figured out by now, I go for comics with deep social significance and those with none at all. This would be one of the latter. Last week, Rina Piccolo, no slouch herself, took over Rhymes With Orange for a vacationing Hilary Price, and observed on her blog, “The easy thing […]
Anyone who’s been reading “Help Wanted” ads over the past year or so will recognize the guy in the suit in today’s Mr. Boffo. And they know the answer to the question. That’s why they’re still reading the ads.
Three time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Conrad has passed away at the age of 86 surrounded by family MSNBC reports. He was fierce in his liberalism and expressed it with a stark, unmistakable visual style. Southern California political junkies for decades would start their day either outraged or delighted at a Conrad drawing. The Times […]
In today’s Candorville, Darrin Bell explains the interface of economics and art for the benefit of those who love and care for a working artist, writer, etc.The explanation is this: Be glad we’re not running around cutting off our own ears.**(There is a book out that claims Van Gogh didn’t cut off his own ear […]
Congrats go out to Steve Moore today. His feature, In The Bleachers, is celebrating its 15th year in syndication. Steve has had an odd journey into cartooning. He started out in newspapers as a journalist and editor. He came up with In the Bleachers while working as an editor in the Maui News. He then […]
Rob Tornoe, who broke the news that Ron Rogers had lost his job as the full-time South Bend Tribune editorial carrtoonist, writes that Ron was the only African American staff editorial cartoonist . Rogers will also leave behind the mantle of being the only African American staff newspaper cartoonist in the country, a distinction he […]