Gene Payne, former editorial cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer has passed away at the age of 91. During his career he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. “He had a loyal following of readers, particularly people who were interested in local issues and local government,” said former Observer publisher Rolfe Neill, who was a reporter […]
For some reason, it seems like I’ve had fewer barrages of offers from cashiers lately for charge cards, affinity cards and to donate to their cause-of-the-month. I’m assuming it’s because they’re tired of being told ‘no,’ and that it isn’t the result of some head office suggestion that they quit badgering the clientele.Such a dim […]
George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat, was the topic of Michael Tisserand keynote address. Michael is writing a biography of Herriman. The following are some of the notes I took from the address:[Editor’s note: Michael has corrected a few of my notes. Please skip down to his comments for the corrections.] Title of upcoming […]
The Cartoon Art Museum has announced that Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey and founder of the National Cartoon Museum, is the recipient of the 2010 Sparky Award, which was presented to him by CAM curator Andrew Farago during a spotlight panel at last weekend’s New York Comic-Con.The Sparky Award is named in honor of […]
An Idaho middle school teacher has plead guilty to possession of animated child porn. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Steven Kutzner, 33, had downloaded more than 70 animated cartoon pornographic images on his computer. Many of them depicted child characters from The Simpsons. Kutzner was a former middle school teacher at Lake Hazel Middle School […]
Norm Feuti, creator of the syndicated strip Retail, is celebrating his five year mark. Norm has also launched new website for his comic. The new website runs the strip daily and has a full archive going back to the beginning. Congrats, Norm.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about writing humor on the Wall Street Journal.The topic is the thing. Eighty percent of successful humor writing is picking a topic that is funny by its very nature. My story above is true, up until the exaggeration about the French fry in the sinus cavity. You probably assumed it […]
Bill Gallo, who has been The Daily News cartoonist and columnist for over 50 years, was honored with the New York Press Club President’s Award last Saturday. “We’re delighted that the New York Press Club has chosen to shine a light on our colleague and friend Bill Gallo,” said Daily News editor-in-chief Kevin R. Convey. […]
Rhymes with Orange cracks me up on a regular basis, but today’s strip is just wrong.See, the Pillsbury Doughboy is more like a biscuit than a loaf of bread. You don’t slice him. You just take him gently in two hands and then jab your thumbs into his soft little belly, and …
Nicole Hollander, creator of Sylvia, was interviewed in The Tablet about her 30 years in comics and her new collection “The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama.” Speaking of absurdities, in the section on the earliest strips, you mention regretting depicting Reagan as a moron for so long, because it […]
I missed this on TV, but CBS has posted the 13 minute 60 Minutes segment online. The TV News magazine revisits the popularity of Charles Schulz’ Peanuts and rebroadcasts an 1999 interview with Sparky himself.
United Media’s annual holiday comic strip is re-running Jef Mallett’s A Mall and the Right Visitor this year. The special holiday Frazz originally ran in 2003. Mallett’s “A Mall and the Right Visitor” is an operatic, rhyming poem, making it not only a clever daily treat but also a collectible series that comes together as […]
Ben Sargent isn’t the only cartoonist making this point, but I always like his style and I like this particular cartoon. And I do think the issue is critical.I just want the elections to be over so we can go back to beer ads that insult my intelligence instead of political ads which ditto. At […]
Deadline.com is reporting that movie and TV mogal Jerry Bruckheimer is working to create a half hour live action comedy sit com based on Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits comic strip. Donald Todd, who was the co-creator, executive producer of the ABC comedy Samantha Who? is the writer-producer for this script.
Sunday night’s The Simpsons had an unusual opening. It had the normal intro with the family crashing into the living room to watch TV, but the opening extended into a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. Very much a hand bitting the hand that feeds it […]