The Kentucky Herald-Leader has announced major changes in their newspaper – their first major shake-up in over a decade. The paper formed a committee and a ballot and after 4000 votes were tabulated they’ve announced the following features were being dropped: The Quigmans Apartment 3-G Cathy Dennis the Menace Marmaduke Mary Worth Pardon My Planet […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau spoke at the Center for Cartoon Studies last night about his career and challenges in the comic industry. On the topic of challenges, Garry says that it’s never gotten easier, but what topics that generated controversy in the 70’s have been largely destigmatized.He was also asked if he draws all the […]
This last Sunday’s Elderberries paid tribute to Phil Frank, the strip’s co-creator who passed away in September. Corey Pandolph took over on the strip back in May when co-creator Joe Troise retired. The tribute strip depicts Phil riding into the sunset.
John Read writes in to ask who is plannig on going to the Ohio State Festival of Cartoon Art on Thursday?
Nancy cartoonist Guy Gilchrist writes in to alert Daily Cartoonists to his new home over on MySpace. So far his first blog topics include a post about Charles Schulz and the Boston Red Sox.
Jim Davis has written and ‘executively produced’ a Garfield movie entitled Garfield Gets Real which will be released on DVD on November 20th. The movie is CGI and the plot is described as: Tired with his routine as a comic strip star, Garfield escapes the page and heads into the â??real world.â? While living the […]
23 year-old Randall Munroe worked on robotics for NASA after graduating from Christopher Newport University with a degree in physics and minors in computer science and math, but evetually the doodles he drew in the margins ended up on the web and began attracting lots of visitors. He eventually created his own web site which […]
Scott Nickel, of Triple Take, His & Hers and Eek fame, has started reading the new Schulz and Peanuts biography and isn’t all that impressed. I received my copy of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography from Amazon today. I stopped at page 31 feeling utterly despondent. Author David Michaelis paints such a morose and relentlessly […]
The State Journal-Register editorial cartoonist Chris Britt was awarded the 2007 James P. McGuire Award for excellence in journalism. The award was given by the ACLU of Illinois during their 2007 ACLU of Illinois Bill of Rights Celebration.
Pat Oliphant spoke last night at the Politics and Prose book store in D.C. to promote his latest book Leadership: Cartoons & Sculpture From the Bush Years. Rob Tornoe was there and took several photos, and by “several” I mean a lot, and by “a lot” I mean some 114 of them. Check them out.Thanks […]
For those of us who have learned about Lynn Johnston’s separation from her husband (who left her for another woman), this Sunday’s For Better or For Worse may appear to be hitting close to Lynn’s home. According to a Chicago Tribune article (who’s opted not to describe the comic so as not to spoil it […]
Creators syndicate will launch a Canadian feature entitled Chuckle Bros on Monday. The comic is by Brian and Ron Boychuk and drawn by Ronnie Martin. It was picked up last year by Torstar Syndication Services and launched with seven papers according to this article in the Calgary Herald. Over the course of a year, it […]
Fans of Norm Feuti’s comic feature, Retail can listen to an interview that Norm did with Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones of WCBQ-WHNC-AM radio in North Carolina to promote his “Pretending You Care” book that hit book shelves earlier this week. A streaming audio of that 10 minute interview is available.
Earlier, I reported the Parade magazine was going to start running cartoons by Dave Coverly and Carla Ventresca. E&P reports that last Sunday’s line up included Dan Piraro, Donna Barstow and Gary McCoy.
Tuesday’s Morning Edition on NPR had a segment devoted the newly release biography of Charles M. Schulz entitled, “Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis. You can listen to the broadcast from NPR’s web site. I haven’t listened to the broadcast, but the write up to introduce the segment focused mainly on Sparky’s affair during his […]