» The Yale Daily News has a history of how Garry Trudeau started in the comics. Interesting, the path started out like most. When Garry approached the paper, the ran his stuff because “we print pretty much anything.”» Neil Cohn, a frequent speaker on the topic of “visual language theory” has posted research that “reports […]
Jim Mooney, a legend in the comic book industry artist who passed away last month, will have one last published piece this Sunday. This Sunday’s Funky Winkerbean was written by Tony Isabella who made the characters appear as Superman and Supergirl. At Tony’s suggestion, Funky creator Tom Batiuk contacted Jim and asked him to draw […]
Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller will be featured in an exhibit that opens on April 19 in Neville (WI). It will run for four months and will feature over 200 of his editorial cartoons. Heller started at the Press-Gazette in 1985. The exhibit will include a smattering of his older editorial cartoons, with […]
Tom Spurgeon has posted a favorable review of Bill Mauldin’s Willie & Joe collection created by Fantagraphics. Reading these comics it’s hard not to see Mauldin through them, the young, funny and ultimately sensitive young cartoonist following the carnage of Europe and piercing all the way to the heart and humanity of a group of […]
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot turns 20 years old today. From Universal Press we learn that despite having retired the daily version at the end of 2006, the classic version still runs in about 50 papers internationally and the Sunday-only strips appear in more than 700 newspapers (print and online). Congratulations Bill on the milestone!
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot will use her feature to explore “how generations raised in front of television, computer and cell phone screens cope with having them removed” during National TV-Turnoff week beginning April 21.In the series, the difficulties of life without television are demonstrated as the teenage Holly tries to make it through the […]
Rubes creator Leigh Rubin has had a hand in the independent comedy movie, “Moola.” The opening introduction features animated cows drawn by Leigh. See YouTube video below.
The Seattle Times has announced that they area cutting jobs – some 200 jobs and Eric Devericks, their editorial cartoonist, tells me that his job will most likely be one of them unless enough people voluntarily leave. If not, May 5th will be his last day. Eric has been with The Seattle Times for nearly […]
“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints. “It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a […]
Editorial Cartoonists Ted Rall and Stephanie McMillan will be the guest speakers for two New York City events to talk “politics, ecocide, the Evil System, and resistance.” The evening speaking events will feature slideshows of their cartoons.
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog has been picked up by several online comic pages according to a post on Jonathan’s blog. Bleeker started out on Comics Sherpa and moved up to goComics in May of last year. It has also been optioned for TV Radical Sheep Productions in Canada.Here’s a list of online newspaper […]
The now famous “Garfield Minus Garfield” blog is getting mainstream media attention. The blog, by Dan Walsh of Dublin, takes a Garfield comic strip and removes the main character Garfield to allow readers a different view of Jon Arbuckle.From the site’s description: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic […]
Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan has been officially hired by Sony to write the treatment for the Pooch Cafe movie that optioned back in January. A movie treatment is the basic story for the movie outlined in paragraph form. I pitched my treatment/vision of the Pooch Caf’e movie to Sony along with a number (not […]
United Media is launching a few feature by Keith Knight entitled The Knight Life on May 5th. The political and satirical feature is described as tackling “contemporary issues like consumer culture, bacon, the media, race, family and everything else, gently mocking the minutiae of daily life with self-deprecating humor, honesty and goofiness.” “Keith Knight became […]
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro has announced that he’s getting into the trading card business. The new Bizarro trading cards feature a Bizarro cartoon and some unpublished work and the back of each cartoon is a puzzle piece that once assembled with other cards create a larger 17.5 x 11.5″ puzzle. The first release (or Series […]