Sorry all, I’ve been under the weather this last weekend and still trying to get back up to 100%. I’ll endeavor to post more as I can. Also as a heads up, I’ll be heading out on vacation next week and filling in will be long time trusted friend and fine cartoonist Aaron Taylor.
The guys over at Tall Tale Features scooped another e-mail interview with Opus, Outland, Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed. Here’s an excerpt. Visit blog to read all eight questions and answers. Question the First, from Chip Skelton, “Broken Things” Mr. Breathed, a good many artists tend to be loners. You’re very active physically and deeply […]
The National Cartoonists Society and United Service Organizations are sponsoring a trip for several cartoonists to Washington D.C. and Europe to visit U.S. veterans and injured soldiers at military hospitals. So far the cartoonists include Jeff Keane (Family Circus), Mike Peters (Mother Goose and Grimm, editorial cartoonist), Mike Luchovich (editorial cartoonist), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before […]
The first print collection of Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac is due out in September. From his blog, we learn that Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written the forward. Richard joked that having Watterson write the forward was such a rush that it “made me blush so hard I got a nosebleed.”You can […]
Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson will be featured at this weekend’s Heroes Convention in Charlotte N.C. He will be interviewed by Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon about art, caricature and the Otterloop family.
Today marks Jim Davis’ 30th anniversary of the launch of Garfield. Here is a round up of all things Garfield for the day.News ArticlesThe Times Online (Uk) takes a look at the Garfield empire that is estimated at $750 Million to $1 Billion last year.Newslink Indiana interviews Jim Davis. They’ve also posted a video portion […]
This year’s Harvey Award nominees have been released. in the category of Best Syndicated Strip or Panel, the nominees are: Doonesbury (Garry Trudeau), Get Fuzzy (Darby Conley), The K Chronicles (Keith Knight), The Mighty Motor-Sapiens, (Mark Wheatley, Daniel Krall, Robert Tinnell, MJ Butler, Craig Taillerfer, Matthew Plog, and Jerry Carr), and Mutts (Patrick McDonnell). In […]
Matt Janz’ Single and Looking will be coming to an end this Sunday. On his web site Matt writes that he’s pulling the feature due to lack of client newspapers.He continues: The infamous name change from “Out of the Gene Pool” in 2007 was a last effort to reach those close-minded, hairy-noseaphobic newspaper editors who […]
Earlier today, I posted a blurb about New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas who is being criticized by some for running essentially the same cartoon twice – merely altering the drawing, or redrawing (tracing) it from a previous cartoon of his. Rob Tornoe, who was the first to point out Sean’s re-drawings, now alleges that […]
A Father’s Day cartoon drawn by Milt Priggee has garnered a strong reaction from military folks. The cartoon depicts a dead soldier with what may appear a blown off skull and leg, with a note lying next to him with the words, “We love you Dad.”Reader reactions and Milt’s reactions have been posted on Daryl […]
In what might be best described as Bad Cartoonist fodder, Sean Delonas, editorial cartoonists for the New York Post, is catching flack for drawing two near-identical cartoons that appear to be mirror images of each other. Politicker.com editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe was the first to call attention to the cartoon, and yesterday Matt Bors leveled […]
Editorial cartoonists Steve Breen, Mike Peters, and Signe Wilkinson are scheduled to appear at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con as special guests this July. Other notable guest include: Sergio Aragones, Kyle Baker, Lynda Barry, Ed Brubaker, and Al Jaffee.Hat tip: E&P.
Visit Clay’s work with the Chattanooga Times Free Press Not having spotlighted an editorial cartoonist in my Cartoonist’s Cartoonists feature, I wanted to make sure it was a cartoonist who had a unique artistic style. I’m happy to feature Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett.Clay started his cartooning career while attending the University of […]
Long-time AAEC member Jim Knudsen has passed away at the age of 85. Jim was a member for 48 of the association’s 51 years. He did cartoons for the Catholic publication Tidings and the paper that later became the The San Diego Union-Tribune, according to E&P.
Today marks the debut of Mark Buford’s Scary Gary – a Munster type strip with a 700 year-old vampire, a monster and disembodied head living in a jar who move into the suburbs. Along with the Knight Life and Pooch Cafe, Scary Gary is on trial mode at the News and Observer.Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury returns […]