Former sports cartoonist Phil Bissell, who created the original New England Patriots logo “Pat Patriot” in 1960, is featured and recounts the history behind the creation of the football team mascot.
At the annual Burning Man communal gathering and arts festival this weekend, you will find a boat-shaped car with a cutout of Snoopy on the bow driven by Jeannie Schulz, widow of â??Peanutsâ? cartoonist Charles Schulz.â??I loved Burning Man last year. I took up â??Peanutsâ?? books to share, and volunteered in the coffee shop,â? Jeannie […]
Publishers Weekly looks at how print collections fit in with web comics.Web comics are counterintuitive: they’re online for free at the same time the creator or publisher is offering the same stories for sale. â??You would assume that people wouldn’t want to buy something if they’ve read it already,â? says David Land, an editor at […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer has illustrated a children’s book written by his daughter, Kate, about the struggle to choose the new puppy President Obama had promised his daughters, Sasha and Malia.â??It was as much as, if not more fun than any other illustration job Iâ??ve ever had,â? he said.
At a hearing in California on Monday, three judges at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave Paris Hilton the OK to pursue her case against Hallmark, rejecting the company’s claims the cartoon on a greeting card was of a generic woman and not Hilton. The card showed Hilton’s face superimposed on a cartoon of […]
The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters.
ToonSeum, a Pittsburgh museum devoted exclusively to the cartoon arts, is moving to a new location.One reason for the move is space. At 1,000 square feet, the new location will be five times the size of the current one. The other reason is to broaden the kind of artwork the ToonSeum displays. “Our own space […]
Scott Stantis, who begins September 1 as the Chicago Tribune’s staff editorial cartoonist, said good-bye as a member of The Birmingham News. His last cartoon for the newspaper can be seen here.
Alexa Kitchen, who is twelve years old, has a new book from Disney-Hyperion Books, “Grown-ups Are Dumb (No Offense).” She was nominated for two awards in 2007: a Harvey Award for Best New Talent and an Eisner Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience.
Dave Coverly, author of “Speed Bump,” will have a special exhibit in his honor at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts starting Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of his comic.
The Journal News, which had previously announced that it was cutting Matt Davies’ staff position, has reversed their decision and will be keeping their Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. Matt tells me, “I am not going anywhere. My paper looked down the cold and terrible barrel of not having an editorial cartoonist on staff and just […]
Just a heads up, I will be handing over the reins of The Daily Cartoonist to my good friend Aaron Taylor whilst my family and I are away on vacation next week. He will keep the news delivered hot and ready each day next week. Please make it easy for him by minding the comment […]
Books» The Aaugh Blog reports that The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 (the 12th volume in the series) is shipping now. Look for it in your favorite bookstore or online at Amazon.comComic Strips» Alex Hallatt tells me that her strip Arctic Circle celebrated it’s second anniversary as a syndicated strip and has a new website.Editorial Cartooning» Best […]
Canadian cartoonist Claude Robinson has been awarded C$5.2 million in a 14-year legal battle over alleged plagiarized animated work. Cinar, which was sold in 2004 and relaunched as Cookie Jar, has been ordered to pay cartoonist Claude Robinson C$5.2 million (S$6.8 million) for using his cartoon series Les aventures de Robinson Curiosite as the basis […]
Michael Jantze has announced that he is launching an online “100-plus page comic art novel” that will launch this fall and continue through next year. The new feature is called Rave On and described as: When a down-on-his-luck orphan dies, no one notices except Saint Peter. The orphan learns, as in life, that death has […]