IDW will be releasing “The Complete Little Orphan Annie, Vol. 1″ this month (June 11). This first volume is a bit more than 1000 pages and starts at the beginning in 1924 and includes the first nine completed stories until the end of 1927.Volume 1 is edited and designed by Dean Mullaney, who as founder […]
» Mike Rhode blogs that the Washington Times redesign of their paper has shrunk the size it runs Mallard Fillmore.» Several cartoonist were featured in industry podcasts. Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson was on Sequential Artists’ Podcast; David Reddick was featured on Comics Coast to Coast to talk about Legend of Bill; and Lucas […]
Close to Home creator, John McPherson, has donated his “hot nurse” cartoon to Saratoga Hospital as a gesture of thanks for the care he received there over the years. “I’ve spent a lot of time in Saratoga Hospital,” McPherson told his audience. “I had kidney stones for about six weeks a couple of years ago […]
The Biggish Five © Jeremy Nell; Images reprinted by special permission. South African cartoonist Jeremy Nell is ending his Urban Trash comic strip – a darker social commentary strip that is syndicated to papers in South Africa to create a new strip that is “fun, cute and disarming.” The new strip is entitled The Biggish […]
RingTales has signed an exclusive agreement with United Media to produce and distribute daily animated versions of Scott Adams’ Dilbert. The agreement covers future strip as well as over 7,000 printed versions of the strip. The first animations have been on Dilbert.com and MSN, but starting today, you can see the animates on YouTube and […]
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes is leaving her syndicated print editorial cartoons as of this Saturday to concentrate on her animated editorial cartoons that she creates for the Washington Post. The Post had asked her to increase the number of animations from two to three a week and Ann didn’t feel like she […]
A car bomb was detonated outside the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. Authorities believe the attack was targeting the Danish embassy in retaliation to the reprinting of the now infamous Mohammed cartoons back in February by several Danish newspapers. The attack came six weeks after al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslims to retaliate […]
» E&P reports that another couple of Charles Schulz original Peanut strips have sold at auction for a combined $115,269. The first strip dated June 3, 1962 is a Sunday featuring a kite-flying scene and it sold for $79,100 and the second is a daily featuring Snoopy dated January 11, 1964 which sold for $36,160.» […]
Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok will be the featured speaker at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center this Thursday night in conjunction with their The Golden Age of American Political Cartoons exhibit that ends on Sunday. Chip’s speech is entitled, “A Cartoonist’s Life or ‘Is that ALL you do?’.” The exhibit is described […]
These news items have been stacking up. Here are the posted/known comic page changes for the last two weeks.The Yankton Press & Dakotan went looking to replace two strips and decided to pick up four instead. New strips include Baby Blues, Mother Goose and Grimm, Dick Tracy, and Bizarro. Leaving the paper due to high […]
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, IL officially closed yesterday with a closing ceremony. The museum announced earlier this year that it would be closing its doors due to financial reasons. Gould, who lived in Woodstock for much of his life, started drawing the Dick Tracy comic in 1931 and continued to do it […]
Former The Orange County Register editorial cartoonist Mike Shelton, along with another former O.C. Register employee have launched a new web site for their animated editorial cartoons called politicalbastards.com (or the more mildly titled politicalbleep.com). “Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P. The duo hopes the new site — […]
From an article in the L.A. Times we note that Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist and syndicate owner, and Bob Scheibel, a former journalism professor and comic collector, are neighbors – but their views of editorial cartooning are anything but.Scheibel view: Today’s political cartoons are too wishy-washy or wordy. He says newspaper staff cutbacks and a […]
Mel Casson, writer and illustrator for the Redeye comic strip passed away last week at the age of 87 of Alzheimer’s disease.For nearly 20 years, Mel illustrated “Redeye,” a parody strip about a 19th century tribe of Native Americans, for King Features Syndicate. When cartoonist Bill Yates, who wrote the “Redeye” scripts, retired in 1999, […]
Editor and Publisher’s Dave Astor has additional details to yesterday’s news that Creators Syndicate is purchasing Copley News Service. According to the report, Creators has had interest in Copley for many years and that Copley has decided to focus their energies elsewhere – opening up the possibility of selling the syndicate. When asked why CNS […]