From the press release from the United States Postal Service: The Sunday Funnies stamp pane honors Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. The stamps will go on sale in July. Offering an idealized portrait of American adolescence, Archie existed only in comic-book form before debuting in newspapers in 1946. A […]
John Read, the publisher of “Stay Tooned!” is curating a comic strip exhibit to travel through five major southern cities in the coming two years. He tells me in an email that after publishing “Stay Tooned!,” his next ambition is to create an art museum in the South. To get things started, he has 73 […]
I completely missed this one. Last week, I traded emails with Bill Mitchell and Bob Lang two editorial cartoonists that drew for CNN’s political website. Bill is perhaps the first editorial cartoonist to leave traditional editorial cartooning to provide animated editorials. Both artists confirm that CNN dropped their services last spring after new management was […]
Graham Nolan, the artist behind Rex Morgan, M.D. and frequent artist for DC Comics has launched a new webcomic entitled Sunshine State. Graham’s new strip will run Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.
Brad Guigar, the editor behind Webcomics.com, has announced that the webcomic journal blog will begin charging a subscription for access to its articles and archives. On the blog he writes: Most webcomics are based on the free-content model. The “How To Make Webcomics” book is built around it. Why is Webcomics.com becoming a pay site? […]
A Somali man was shot by Danish police after he had gained entrance into Kurt Westergaard’s home with a knife and an axe. He is accused of trying to kill the famous Mohammad cartoonist. Kurt was home at the time, along with a five-year-old granddaughter. Both were able to find safety in a panic room. […]
Editorial cartoonists Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker are launching a new strip today through King Features Syndicate. The comic strip entitled Dustin, features a “‘boomerang kid,’ an adult who finds himself unemployed and back at home with his parents.” In an article in The Times-Picayune where Steve works as the staff cartoonists, Steve says the […]
See you back here on January 4. Happy holidays everyone.
Daryl Cagle has posted news that Larry Wright is retiring permanently from the Detroit News at the end of this month. He retired from the paper as a full time employee in 2006, but continued to freelance three cartoons a week with them until last year where they dropped him to two a week and […]
Comic Strips» JC Duffy has launched called “Nightly Deposits.”Interviews» Scott Nickel interviews illustrator Danny Hellman.Webcomics» Comic Book Resources has posted their review of the year in webcomics.
The Macworld website has posted news that PvP creator Scott Kurtz will speak at this year’s Macworld along with Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld columnist Andy Ihnatko. The discussion description: or the past century, succeeding as a writer or artist in the newspaper business required submitting work to syndicates and editors. Chances of success for slim, […]
This is supposed to be the last Shrek movie produced.
Pixar is releasing “Toy Story 3” in IMAX 3D when it opens in June of next year. Here is the 2 minute extended trailer.
I’m intrigued with the movie, but admit I’m confused by this trailer.
King Features has temporarily suspended its ad server after last week’s hack into their ad database. Hackers used a recently discovered exploit to inject malware into the database using the Adobe Acrobat 0-day exploit. King Features, according to a press release, assures its clients that Comics Kingdom has not be compromised and is safe to […]