The Chicago Tribune is responding to reader complaints about the illegibility of some if its comics by increasing the size it runs several of those comics. Two features, The Argyle Sweater and Bliss will be enlarged by 15% and Baby Blues, Blondie, Cathy, Classic Peanuts, Dilbert, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse, Frazz, Hagar the […]
Penny Arcade webcomic creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik and business partner Robert Khoo have been honored with the Ambassador Award in the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards. The award recognizes individuals who have “helped the game industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better game community from within, or by reaching […]
Glowing praise from Universal Uclick’s John Glynn to Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller who celebrates 10 years in syndication with Universal. Wow. 700 papers, multiple books, best-selling calendars and critically lauded graphic novels later … Wiley remains on the top of the game. A master illustrator whose line work is nonpareil and whose writing can […]
Planet Pixar reports that Pixar’s “Up” has been nominated for Best Picture – only the second time an animated feature has been such nominated. The Pixar film is pitted against “Avatar”, “The Blind Side,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Inglorious Basterds,” “Precious” and “Up in the Air.” “Up” has also been nominated for […]
Former Republican Eagle editorial cartoonist and Red Wing MN salesman Craig Livingstone has announced that he’s running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate. Livingstone said he would focus on bringing jobs and commerce to the district and the state. The 58-year-old also said he would work to rein in government so it keeps pace […]
Eddie Pitman has launched a webcomic graphic novel called Red’s Planet. I knew about the launch, but admit that I dropped the ball on any sort of deserving mention until Tom Richmond posted this review: Eddie may have a long list of accomplishments but his first love has always been comics, and when he started […]
Talk about drawing under pressure.Hat tip to Mike Lynch and Mark Anderson
Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli scores an email interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson. Readers became friends with your characters, so understandably, they grieved — and are still grieving — when the strip ended. What would you like to tell them? This isn’t as hard to understand as people try to make it. […]
Comic Strips» Ted Dawson posts some early Family Circus strip.Editorial Cartooning» Canadian editorial cartoonists are planning their annual convention in September.Newspapers» The Deseret News’ parent company is launching a Spanish-language paper in February. The paper will start out as a tri-weekly with a circulation goal of 25,000.Television» “A Charlie Brown Valentine Special” will air on […]
In Mike Rhode’s latest column in the Washington City Paper, compared the number of cartoons in each D.C. paper with what was offered in 2007. The result: only 65 percent of the comics remain. As we take stock of this great nation of ours, it is evident that one group is sufferingâ??a surprising group given […]
The Independent Florida Alligator has issued an apology for running a cartoon depicting a man and woman having sex while texting their donation to the American Red Cross (link goes to the cartoon, NSFW). When deciding to run that cartoon, we in no way wanted to make light of the situation that happened in Haiti. […]
Below is an unofficial live video stream of the event. Below the video is liveTweet coverage via ArsTechnica. Tweets should auto update every 10 seconds below.
Roland Hedley, the fictional Doonesbury character who began using Twitter last spring has closed his account. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau used his character to poke fun at the emerging Twitter social phenomenon. He went on to create a real Twitter account under the character’s name that gained the attention of the New Yorker and the […]
I reported earlier that Newsday’s website was going behind a paywall. The site was free for those that used the patent company’s cable services, otherwise one needed to buy a subscription. Three months later the number of subscriber is 35. So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, […]
Due to the potential impact on the print industry (at least the interest in it by those in print and web), I will enable a LIVE stream of the Apple “Jesus Tablet” announcements here on the site. Please come by and offer your impressions as it rolls out to the industry.UPDATE: The McGraw Hill CEO […]