Last March I reported that syndicated editorial cartoonist Bill Schorr had decided to leave editorial cartooning (he was syndicated through United Media). Daryl Cagle announced yesterday that Bill has returned to cartooning and will now be syndicated through Cagle Cartoons.
I’ve got a big deadline to meet today, that and couple it with the server issues this morning, I ran out of blogging time. I’ll be posting back here tomorrow. Until then, here are some of the headlines.Comic Strips» The Fusco Bros has turned 20. The strip is done be JC Duffy.» The Denver Post […]
Michael Cavna reports that the Washington Post pulled the original Tank McNamara and is running a replacement because the strip insinuates Dick Cheney advising the NFL commissioner to kill Michael Vicks. See original strip on GoComics.com Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti says the decision was a no-brainer: The original strips were deemed “inappropriate.” The Post […]
Interviews» Michael Cavna interviews Jerry Scott about Zits, Baby Blues and collaborating with other cartoonists. Graphic Novels» ICv2 Insider’s Guide reports that graphic novel sales dipped the first half of this year.Exhibits» MAD magazine Cartoonist Sergio Aragones Featured in California Museum
PBS’ Independent Lens produced a hour tribute to the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad and his half-century career at the L.A. Times. The full episode is now online over at YouTube.
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco is opening a new exhibit showcasing “some of the best and boldest work published on the World Wide Web.” The exhibit is entitled Monsters of Webcomics and features cartoons from Jesse Reklaw (“Slow Wave), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant!), Phil and Kaja Foglio (Girl Genius), Dorothy Gambrell (Cat […]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has announced that within the next 12 months, it will begin to require a fee for online access of it’s websites. The strategy to extract fees from online readers, which is still lacking in many details, has more than a little bit of a “damn the torpedoes” mentality to it, but […]
Animation» A new Ponyo trailer has been posted.» The Animation blog has posted concept art from the upcoming Disney feature film “Rapunzel” due out Christmas of 2010.Comic Strips» Readers were quick to note that yesterday’s B.C. had two left feet.Editorial Cartooning» Pat Oliphant was awarded the Inkpot Award for his career in cartooning. The Inkpot […]
The comic strip Annie turned 85 yesterday. Little Orphan Annie first appeared in 1924, a creation of Herold Gray. The comic “Little Orphan Annie” debuted on Aug. 5, 1924. Original creator Harold Gray intended to call his character “Little Orphan Otto,” but switched the character’s gender at the suggestion of his editor, the Chicago Tribune’s […]
For those of you into animation, The History Channel and Aniboom are sponsoring a competition for you to animate 30 seconds of a famous historical speech and send it in. The speeches are provided, voiced by Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Freeman and others. The five first cut finalists receive $5,000 to finish […]
A recent ad campaign by Jamba Juice to promote their lunch specials appears highly similar to David Rees’ “Get Your War On” webcomic style which has David concerned that it might appear that he’s involved with the campaign, even though “Get Your War On” was retired in January. Rees, who started making clip-art comics while […]
Univeral Uclick and Mark Tatulli have announced the first ever look-alike contest. Contestants are encouraged to do their best to mimic Lioâ??s trademark hair spike and capture the mischievous spirit of the weirdest little kid on the comics page and send the photos in before September 28th. Judges at Universal will narrow the selection with […]
Editorial Cartooning» Another animated editorial cartoon by Ted Rall and David Essman. » Daryl Cagle is posting video from his panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. This video features the cartoons of Glenn McCoy. Keep checking is blog for more videos throughout the week.Graphic Novels» Steve Duin of The Oregonian reviews “You’ll Never Know” a […]
From Daryl Cagle we learn that the The Jerusalem Post has dropped Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen. Yaakov has drawn the strip for the Post for the last 35 years.
According to Michael Cavna over on his Comics Riff blog, more than 100 Iranian cartoonist will boycott the upcoming Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial scheduled for October. According to Nik Kowsar, an exiled Iranian political cartoonist now living near Toronto, many of his colleagues have decided to boycott the Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, scheduled […]