Good and bad news from Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson. He posted on his blog today that he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinson’s is a brain disorder that affects body muscle and movement. The good news is that he says that it hasn’t affected his drawing hand and the disease is treatable.On […]

Interviews» Scott Nickel interviews Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis. » Bob Andelman, (AKA Mr. Media) interviews Pajama Diaries creator Terri Libenson. He also talks with Tim Pilcher of Erotic Comics: A Graphic History, Vols. 1 & 2.

Randall Sly, over on his Character Design blog, has posted screen grabs of characters in the upcoming movie “Despicable Me” which is due out July 9, 2010.Below is the newly released trailer.

The New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women has released a statement denouncing New York Daily News Cartoonist Bill Bramhall for a recently published editorial cartoon depicting Senator Kirsten Gillibrand as a “loud mouth need of gagging.”In their statement they write, And exactly what is Bill Bramhall’s gripe? Could it be that […]

Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug, has announced that he will be taking bids for product placement in his weekly alternative comic in an upcoming story-line. The proceeds will be donated to The Committee To Protect Journalists.On his blog he writes: Your product will be featured not in an ad, to which these […]

BlogsMichael Cavna’s Comic Riffs hits 1 years old today. Congrats!Books» Lindsay Perna writing for the Religion News Service reviews Johnny Hart’s “I Did It His Way” – a collection of Johnny’s religiously themed B.C. strips.Comic Books» Daniel Ford of the Wilmington Comic Books Examiner writes his review of DC Comics’ new Wednesday Comics.» The childhood […]

Creators Syndicate has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles after the city reset the syndicate’s tax classification. At issue is whether Creators is an “occupations and professions” or a “wholesale and retail” business with the former being taxed at a much higher level. The syndicate and the city fought this battle 15 […]

From the Times-Union blog comes news that Nate Creekmore is ending Maintaining effective August 1. Here’s what he told the Times-Union in an e-mail: Maintaining is my comic strip and my intention was to make it as honest and genuine as possible. Iâ??m proud of the work Iâ??ve done with the strip and Iâ??m tremendously […]

Ave!Comics today announced their collaboration with the Swiss publisher, Paquet to publish the digital version of their stunning comic book, First Moon on the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon.First Moon, penned by American author Joe Wight, tells the story leading up to the moon landing on July 20, 1969 in […]

Effective July 12, United Feature Syndicate will distribute Prickly City, Scott Stantis’ daily and Sunday comic strip. Currently the strip is syndicated through Universal Press Syndicate.Launched in 2004 and appearing in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, Prickly City centers around the friendship between a coyote pup named Winslow and a young girl named Carmen. In […]

Yesterday DC Comics launched their weekly Wednesday Comics – a 12-issue weekly anthology series that is printed in broadsheet format – much like the old time Sunday comics. The first issue premiered in USA Today. Did anyone pick it up? What’s your impressions?

Creators Syndicate is the second major syndicate to enter into the iPhone/iPod Touch app space. Creators has teamed up with iVerse Media to release four comic strip apps for the comic strips B.C., Dog eat Doug, Girls and Sports and Heathcliff.iVerse already has over a hundred comic app collections in Apple’s App Store.

Alternative ComicsRuben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug, was named Association of Alternative Newsweekliesâ?? 2009 award for Best Cartoon. Books» IDW Publishing is announcing a partnership with Archie Comics to reprint some of the propertyâ??s most iconic stories in deluxe hardcover and trade paperback editions. The newspaper strip collections will be incorporated into the […]

While I try to keep up with this stuff, a few audio interviews have passed me by unnoticed. Bob Andelman, AKA “Mr. Media” has interviewed Gary Groth and Kim Thompson, Editors of The Comics Journal, Fantagraphics, Paul Fitzgerald, Will Eisner and PS Magazine author, Brendan Burford, Editor of Syncopated comics and King Features Syndicate, Jonathan […]

Bob Andelman’s 2005 biography on Will Eisner (“Will Eisner: A Spirit Life”) is now available for download through Audible.com narrated by Bob as well. Bob spent nearly three years interviewing Eisner, his contemporaries, family and friends to create this definitive book on the legendary career.With the release of the book through Audible, it will also […]