Darrin Bell’s venerable Toon Talk comic forum has moved to a new location to escape the ever growing onslaught of spam. Toon Talk is now hosted on Ning – a social network type service that, in addition to the forum that made Toon Talk a worthwhile destination, also allows it’s community members to create blogs, […]
Berkeley Breathed’s final Opus appeared today. The comic that appeared in newspapers directed readers to the Humane Society’s web site to see the final panel which depicted Opus in children’s storybook, “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. Berkeley’s own web site appeared to be struggling under the traffic load. Berkeley reports on his website that […]
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years. If they all follow through, that would take The Simpsons into their 23rd year.» The AV Club gives Richard Thompson’s new book Cul de Sac collection book an A-; Garfield minus Garfield gets a B+.» […]
Slapstick Magazine, a periodical for published for comedians, comedy writers, comedy club fans, etc, recently interviewed Randy Glasbergen about his prolific career as a cartoonist and specifically about his weekly feature “Thin Lines” that is syndicated through Creators.4. How long have you been illustrating characters? I began my career in 1972 while I was in […]
Next Wednesday, the day after the presidential election, Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury will depict a newscaster declaring presidential candidate Barack Obama as the winner of this year’s election. This has many editors in a journalistic bind because they’ll be printing their comics pages before the actual presidential results have been finalized. If presidential nominee John McCain […]
Comic Book Resources interviewed Retail creator Norm Feuti about his feature that was launched by King Features in 2006 and his book “Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook” a parody manual on how to survive a retail job. You have two blogs, one which is yours and then another is in the voice of […]
Charles Brubaker has posted an interview he conducted with Kevin McCormick who did the Arnold comic that ran for six years between 1982 to 1988. Do you still come across people that remembers your strip? Itâ??s weird but every once in a while someone will track me down and send me an email. The local […]
News-a-rama notes that this week’s New Yorker is their annual Cartoon Issue and reports that it includes work, articles or interviews with Stever Brodner, Mike Luckovich (online), Bruce McCall, Joost Swarte, Robert Crumb and an online only interview with Scott Adams.
Maintaining cartoonist Nick Creekmore will have some of his cartoons included an art exhibit exploring subjects of the male identity. The Exhibit opens in Nashville, TN at the Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery with an opening reception on October 30. Exhibit runs through November 26.North Central College’s new Schoenherr Art Gallery will feature an exhibit […]
The editor of the Daily Triplicate (Crescent City, CA), Richard Wiens, writes about the reader reaction to a recent Gary McCoy editorial cartoon depicting former Secretary of State Collin Powell drinking kool-aid in his endorsement of Barack Obama. Along with explaining his philosophy of what makes a great editorial cartoon and how he selects them […]
GoComics has announced that they have added Kim Casali and Bill Asprey’s classic Love Is, Harry Bliss’ Bliss comic panel and Bill Whitehead’s Free Range to their line-up of online offerings. Love Is… and Bliss are TMS features and Free Range is syndicated through Creators.
The National Caricature Network is set to hold their 17th annual convention next week in Raleigh, NC. The convention attracts 200 or so member artists from around the world. At the convention the public is invited to watch in the “Worlds Fastest Artist” competition crowns the fastest artist who draws the most number of live […]
» webcomics.com is now owned and operated by Halfpixel. They’re pushing for it to become a community resource.» Webcomic Idol is underway over at Bomb Shelter Comics. Contests include: Shi Long Pang, The Superfogeys, The Book of Biff, Soul Driver, Simulated Comic Product, Xylia, Newspaper Comic Strip, Marooned, Lawn Darts and Calamities of Nature.» Panel […]
» The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it’s cutting all of its daily editions and focusing on a weekend edition and their web site. I haven’t asked Clay Bennett, their former editorial cartoonist, but I can imagine him thinking his jump to the Chattanooga Times Free Press as being the best move. Ever.» Comic […]
Mike Rhode notes that The Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler’s cartoons have been reduced to the size of an index card 3×4 inches.Mike notes that, “when the paper started a few years ago, Nate’s cartoon ran at about 1/3 of a page and they had two pages of comic strips which are now gone.”