Mason Mastroianni, who took over his grandfather Johnny Hart’s comic strip after his passing in 2007, is now being credited in the strips byline. Last Sunday was the first time the B.C. comic strip featured the byline “by “Mastroianni and Hart.” The change was prompted by Bobby Hart, Johnny’s widow, and Creators’ president Rick Newcombe […]

Marvel Entertainment shareholders have approved the $4.3 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company that was announced in August making the deal final. Marvel’s cadre of super-heroes characters (over 5,000) are now a subsidiary of Disney.

From Richard Thompson’s blog comes news that a “Cul de Sac Golden Treasury, A Keepsake Garland of Classics” is due out in June. He writes: To begin the year we present the cover to the Cul de Sac Golden Treasury, A Keepsake Garland of Classics, due out this June. It’ll feature extensive Author Commentary (and […]

James Cameron’s “Avatar” is breaking box office records in its third week of release. Box Office Mojo is reporting that the film has made $1.025 billion in world-wide and is fourth place for highest grossing films ever behind “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” […]

Stephen Silver is releasing a video series entitled “The Master’s Series” this month which features Stephen visiting the homes and studios of famous cartoonists to talk about their careers, film their techniques as they draw, ink and color. The series is sold through Schoolism.com for $39. Have you ever wanted to sit in the studio […]

Winsor McCay, the creator of the Little Nemo comic strip, has been inducted into the National Film Registry. McCay worked on a Little Nemo film which mixed animation with live-action in 1911. The Library of Congress stated, “its fluidity, graphics and story-telling was light years beyond other films made during that time. A seminal figure […]

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 […]