The tenth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH October 14-17, 2010. The Festival is a unique celebration of cartoons and comics, and their creators. This year’s line-up of presenters include Steve Breen, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Matt Groening and Tom Gammill, Dave Kellett, […]
For its first 17 years, Sally Forth was a bland little strip about Sally and her bland, generic husband Ted and their bland non-descript middle-school daughter Hilary. Then, in 1999, creator Greg Howard walked away from the strip, leaving the art in the hands of his established collaborator, Craig MacIntosh, and turning the writing over […]
Jerry Bittle was one of the first syndicated cartoonists I knew personally, and I always loved his timing, both in Shirley and Son and Geech. There was a Bob Newhart/Jack Benny quality in his storytelling, in that you usually knew where he was going with a gag but the way he told it made the […]
Because some of my readers are in Canada, I am required to include a certain percentage of Canadian content in my blog. Also, Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe is frequently a hoot, which rhymes with “about” if you say it in his hometown of Toronto. The current story arc has our hero, Poncho, trapped by a […]
Twenty Saudi editorial cartoonist have formed the Association of Saudi Cartoonists and Caricaturists to “protect its members against unjustified layoffs and oppression by appointing lawyers to defend them before the courts.” Founding member Hana Hajjar says there are 38 editorial cartoonists working Saudi Arabia. The association’s chairman, Abdullah Sail, an editorial cartoonist at Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper, […]
Congrats to Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker whose recently launched Dustin has quickly jumped to the “more than 100 newspapers” category.From the press release: “Dustin is the most successful new comic to be introduced into syndication in recent years,” said George Haeberlein, King Features vice president, worldwide syndication sales. “It has been appearing in newspapers […]
Much discussion has been generated over the Denver Post dropping 21 comic strips based on a survey of 18,000 (which is a HUGE survey). The question of surveys generates heated discussion as most of you who read or participate in the comments know. The “editors should do their job and pick” response might be popular […]
The LA Times blog reports that Neil Patrick Harris, star of “How I Met Your Mother,” has been cast to star in the upcoming Smurfs movie. The movie will be a mix of live action and CGI. Harris will play one of the live action roles.
Everyone seemed to be wrapping up story arcs or just in a slump today, but here’s a Non Sequitur from 1993 that has been at the top of my list since it appeared. I realized even then that Wiley Miller was being sarcastic, but I always liked the shifting nature of reporting at a small […]
I’ve mentioned before Eddie Pittman’s excellent web graphic novel Red’s Planet. This week Tom Dell’Aringa and Steve Ogden announced that Eddie has agreed to publish through their Wishtales publishing studio.From the press release: Pittman recently began publishing his all-ages science fiction graphic novel “Red’s Planet” online. Dell’Aringa and Ogden were immediately taken by his wonderful […]
Starting next week Eric Scott’s comic strip Back in The Day, which has been featured on Comics Sherpa, will be syndicated online at GoComics. Eric is a graphic artist and greeting card illustrator. He launched Back in the Day on Comics Sherpa in 2008. Congratulations Eric!
David Reddick’s webcomic Legend of Bill has been published in a 48-page comic book and is available now from Th3rd World Publishing in both an Artist Edition and Regular Edition. The comic is also now a regular feature in Renaissance Magazine (bi-monthly) and Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine (monthly) in comics shops, gaming shops […]
Garfield creator Jim Davis is working on a stage musical production to feature his signature cat. According to Playbill.com, 14 songs have been created so far and a director and choreographer is working on the national tour.Jim described the show: Davis has conjured up an elaborate escapade for Garfield’s stage debut. “Even though he’s lazy […]
The recent auction of Detective #27, which includes the first appearance of Batman, became the highest price ever paid for a comic book. The stunning price of $1,075,500 for a single comic book wasn’t the only record set in Heritage Auctions’ Signature(R) Vintage Comics and Comics Art Auction. The $5.6 million total for the event […]
Mark Tatulli is getting a lot of attention for Lio these days, but eight years before he developed that strip in 2006, he put himself on the map with Heart of the City, a charming strip about an overly dramatic, ambitious little girl who I think is going to grow up to be Lucy Ricardo. […]