The Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich has won this year’s Scripps Howard Foundation Announces National Journalism Award for editorial cartooning for “his ability to incite multiple emotions with the reading of a single cartoon.”Finalists this year include Don Asmussen, San Francisco Chronicle and Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times.
Nominees for the National Cartoonists Society’s 2008 Division Awards have been posted. The winners will be announced during the Reuben Awards dinner on Memorial Day weekend.TELEVISION ANIMATION Bryan Arnett – Character Design – “The Mighty B!” – Nickelodeon Ben Balistreri – Character Design – “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” – Cartoon Network Sandra Equihua and […]
The Tundra guys (Bill Kellogg and Chad Carpenter) have opened up registration for their self-syndication seminar that is scheduled for this September. The two 2-day seminar on how to self market and leverage the internet to make a greater income with comics is set for September 26-27 and 28-29 and will feature Bill and Chad, […]
» I’m heading into the busy time of year at my day job. I opened up the ability for you all to post news items when my time was sparse. Please consider contributing to keep the news fresh and the community growing. Thanks!» After cracking his Fibula skiing last week, Corey Pandolph, cartoonist for The […]
Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine has added “Un-died” to the English lexicon. Next time you’re playing Scrabble (and “Urban Dictionary” is a bona-fide credible dictionary), you can point opponents to “Un-died.”Stephan reports that he “can now die happy. And then undie.”
Can any of you tell me some of the best organizations for cartoonists who want to take their cartoons to the next level. (More publicity, more coverage, more distribution, more money) Also included in that, what do they offer / do if you spend money to join. (Like the AAEC, what does the fee get […]
© Nathan CooperUniversal Press Syndicate is launching a new comic strip called In the Sticks by Nathan Cooper. The strip centers on an ex-golf professional who inherits a nearly bankrupt golf club that is populated by three very odd animals who help him (more or less) keep the club running. The strip is tentatively set […]
Kevin Buist, blogging over at spout.com, reacts to the news that Fox is green lighting a Marmaduke movie. He contends that five comic strips should never be made into movies. They include: Family Circus, Cathy, Hagar the Horrible, The Lockhorns and Calvin and Hobbes. His argument isn’t that the comic strips themselves are bad, just […]
I neglected to mention yesterday that Rod Gilchrist has passed away of brain cancer late last month at the age of 58. Rod was the executive director of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. In a San Francisco Chronicle story, Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell said of Rod, “he just treated comic art with such […]
Several journalism associations have cancelled their annual conventions, but The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Ted Rall says that the AAEC will forge ahead with their plans to meet in Seattle despite the possible loss of the sponsoring paper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “There has never been a more important time to come together and […]
Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy became an unlikely source of parody for last week’s Saturday Night Live. Andy Samberg played the harried comic strip character who was interviewed about her finishing last in a “sexiest cartoon character” poll. Justin Timberlake in his second cameo on the show played Cathy’s husband. The skit also featured Jessica Rabbit, who […]
Brad Anderson’s Marmaduke comic strip is being made into a big-screen movie. The Hollywood reporter is reporting that director Tom Dey will be developing a movie based on the comic strip. Still unknown is whether the movie will be animated, live-action or a hybrid, like the recent Garfield movies.
Tomorrow is the deadline set by The Hearst Corporation to have a buyer for their Seattle Post-Intelligencer or they’ll shut down the newspaper. Last week, news leaked that some 20 or so employees were offered a provisional contract to stay on in a web-only version of the newspaper indicating that perhaps the company will try […]
Jason Ankeny writes over on the Fierce Mobile Content blog that he believes that the comics future is best served on the mobile platform like Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPhone. Unlike webcomics which has “proven a mixed bag both creatively and commercially,” both platforms support a revenue model of readers purchasing the e-book (or app) […]
Creators Syndicate has locked up five major Canadian dailies, becoming the exclusive provider of comic features for the Toronto Sun, Edmonton Sun, Ottawa Sun, Winnipeg Sun and Calgary Sun. All five papers print in tabloid form and are part of the Sun Media chain. The decision to go with a single syndicate was a business […]