E&P did a bit of footwork and found that after Monday night’s viewing of Charles M. Schulz documentary on PBS’ American Masters the Amazon rating for the controvercial biography Schulz and Peanuts rose to 53rd place. The week before it hovered in 80s and 90s. On a related note, PBS is rerunning the documentary. Check […]
Every year Forbes tallies up the top-earning deceased celebrities and Charles M. Schulz is once again in the top five. Sparky comes in at #3 with $35 million behind John Lennon’s $44 million and Elvis Presely’s $49 million.
Mark Tatulli’s Heat of the City will run an encore of a 2002 storyline to commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass,” refers to the terrifying sequence of events throughout Germany and parts of Austria on Nov. 9-10, 1938 as 8,000 Jewish villages, homes and businesses were swarmed and destroyed […]
Clay Jones, editorial cartoonist for the Free Lance-Star, is putting together what he is calling the “Great Halloween Theme Editorial Cartoon Research Project.” For the last couple of weeks he’s been rounding up all the editorial cartoons over on the AAEC web site that are Halloweened themed. His list is now up to 63 cartoons. […]
Charlos Gary, who launched Cafe Con Leche earlier this year about a Hispanic and African-American couple has asked if newspapers are ready to embrace strips with bi-racial characters. On his blog he writes: Looking around, I remember reading something about another cartoon about a bi-racial couple that didn’t find much success. I remember a comic […]
I haven’t had a chance to listen to it, but this week’s Comics Coast to Coast guest is Mark Tatulli who talks about his feature Lio and the movie deal announced last week.
A reminder that tonight’s PBS American Masters program is featuring Charles M. Schulz. Program begins at 9 p.m. EST. Meet back here tomorrow to discuss.Updated: I’m still watching the program (Mountain Standard Time) while I’m watching those on the East coast beginning to write in. Keep the comments coming. I’ll post my thoughts when it […]
Mike Witmer’s feature Pinkerton has been picked up on GoComics and will begin its daily run on November 5th. Mike also does the feature 44th Union Avenue that also appears on GoComics. You can see Pinkerton over on his web site, which will also continue to post the feature.
The Oshkosh Northwestern quietly dropped last week’s Crankshaft rape cartoon opting to run a replacement without notifying readers of the reasons behind the decision. It is not generally known but I have a gentleman’s agreement with Crankshaft. If he leaves me alone and behaves himself, I’ll leave him alone. I heard a lifetime of complaints […]
E&P reports that Justin Bilicki will be doing a weekly local cartoon for The New York Press. You can see his lastest cartoon here.
Mark Anderson attended the Festival of Cartoon Art and blogged the experience. Head over to Mark’s blog for his report on day 1 (day one photos), day 2.Mike Rhode has written up a short review as well as posting photos over on Flickr.UPDATE #1: Mark posts a final Q&A about his thoughts of the festival.
Over on RACS, D.D.Degg reports that yesterday’s Parade magazine didn’t feature Bunny Hoest’s Howard Huge, a cartoon staple of the magazine since 1980. Earlier this month I reported that the magazine had begun running other cartoonists including cartoons by Dave Coverly, Carla Ventresca, Dan Piraro, Donna Barstow and Gary McCoy.
The Winston-Salem Journal is running Secret Asian Man in demo mode for the next month. They’ve posted a short interview with Tak Toyoshima, the feature’s creator. Questions asked: Where did you grow up, and were you drawing from a young age? What led you into a career as a newspaper cartoonist? What inspired you to […]
I’m on the road visiting family this weekend. Don’t expect much more to be posted today. Enjoy the weekend!
E&P reports that a feminist blogger took issue with Wednesday’s Crankshaft because of a infered joke regarding rape. In the strip by Tom Batuik and Chuck Ayers depicts the Lois character standing over the contents that spilled out of her purse including a can of pepper spray and Crankshaft comments, “You’re sixty-eight, Lois. You can […]