Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City is celebrating its 10th anniversary on November 22. The strip is centered on a city girl named Heart and her child-age trials and tribulations. Some of the storylines in “Heart” that Mark has received the most reader feedback from include his April 16, 2004, strip in which Heart gets […]
King Features officially launches its Comics Kingdom product today. Comics Kingdom is a new web application that newspapers can embed on their site and provides their readers with access to King Feature’s portfolio of 60+ strips. It also allows the newspapers to sell advertising to accompany the comic page. The premise behind this new type […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has written an article in today’s Stars and Stripes to rebut critics of his strip and his “anti-military” positions. Lately, however, I’ve been struck by the unusually harsh tone taken by some of your writers. I can only guess that they are either occasional readers who have no context for judging […]
Here are a few of the interviews that took place last week: » Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Warren Brown talks to formed Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman. Look for the link to the right for the video piece that goes with this interview.» Mr. Media (AKA Bob Andleman) talks with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell. » […]
Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler has won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. The annual award is sponsored by the National Press Foundation. The Berryman award will be presented to Nate during their Annual Awards Dinner in February. The judges, which included Ann Telnaes, said they were, […]
A few weeks ago I announced a weekly news round up of webcomic news. For those who follow the webcomic scene, you’ve noticed the weekly feature has languished. The big issue for me is that by waiting for each Wednesday to publish the round-up, some of the items are stale and finding time to gather, […]
Former San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley is suing his former employer for allegedly pressuring the current editorial cartoonist Steve Breen to not work with him on a collaborative comic strip that was due to launch this year. According to Voices of San Diego, an online newspaper, Kelley and Breen teamed up to create […]
A recent Bob Harvey article has started a rumor that Tribune Media Services might be ending the Dick Tracy serial comic strip at the end of the year when its current writer/artist Dick Locher retires from editorial cartooning. The rumor has spread to the Gaylord Herald Times and then echoed by the Comics Reporter, but […]
Just received confirmation that Eric Devericks, editorial cartoonist for the Seattle Times, has been laid off along with 40 to 50 others. Eric’s position was on the cutting block earlier this year, but was spared after enough staffers took a voluntary buyout. On this round, only about half of the necessary cuts were voluntary. As […]
There have been a couple of interviews and profiles that have been posted lately. The Daily Interview has interviewed Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett (see parts 1, 2 and 3) and The Hippo has profiled top cartoonists living in New Hampshire which includes: magazine gag cartoonist Mike Lynch, Six Chix cartoonist Stephanie […]
Brad Anderson, the creator of Mamaduke, will be on Animal Planet’s “Dogs 101/Cats 101” this Saturday (8 p.m. ET/PT) and then again on Sunday. The program offers viewers just about everything they want to know about different breeds of cats and dogs. Brad’s episode will of course highlight his own Great Danes. “I am so […]
As mentioned back in August, Bill Kellogg, the Marketing Director behind Tundra, proposed hosting a self-syndication seminar in Las Vegas for early spring. Due to scheduling conflicts, the seminar is being pushed back to September or October of 2009. He has confirmed to me that Amy Lago, comics editor at Washington Post Writers Group, will […]
An 2004 Wizard of Id made its way around the Internet this year with an altered punch-line aimed to insinuate that unintelligent people vote Democratic. The joke is set up by Rodney, the cowardly knight, asking if voters shouldn’t be required to take an intelligence test to vote. Here is the altered comic:After receiving a […]
Godfrey Amon Mwampembwa (goes by the name Gado), a Kenyan-based cartoonist heading to the U.N.’s Cartooning for Peace exhibit in Wellington, New Zealand, was not able to attend the exhibit, that included his own work, after Kenyan workers declared an impromptu national holiday after Barack Obama was named the winner of the U.S. presidential election. […]
According to an article on Mint, comic strip characters have the recognition of celebrities at a fraction of the cost when it comes to businesses using them to build brand recognition and advertising campaigns. Due to an economic downturn worldwide, using comic strip characters is a growing trend because in addition to the cost, the […]