Washington Post Writers Group has posted notice that they will be launching a new feature on June 23rd called Home and Away by Steve Sicula. The featute’s premise is about a husband and wife dealing with the juggling act that is maintaining a home in today’s hectic world. The husband, Sam, telecommutes and mostly manages […]
E&P has written an excellent article on this year’s National Cartoonist Society Silver T-Square recipient, Stu Rees. Stu is an entertainment lawyer who “represent three-quarters of new comic launches” as he is one of the few attorneys that specializes in syndication contracts. He is also a cartoonist himself, and offers an unique perspective of the […]
Tak Toyoshima’s Secret Asian Man is on this week’s front cover of AsianWeek Magazine. This issue explores Asian American comic artists and their work in gaining recognition and portrayals of the Asian American experience. Other artists featured include Asian Americana by Ian Liu and Droodles by Alex Yu.Regarding Tak, they write: Secret Asian Man has […]
The Northwest Florida Daily News has announced that it will be dropping Cathy, Doonesbury, Mallard Fillmore, Lola, Non Sequitur, and Hagar the Horrible in exchange for Get Fuzzy, Mutts, Cul de Sac, Pickles, and Pearls Before Swine.Changes are effective April 21.
But, it was still drawn on the computer.
The National Cartoonist Society will be honoring Sandra Boynton with its Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandra is best known for her many children’s books with cuddly animals and sparse layout, but she began her career creating greeting cards and her 1975 “Hippo Birdie Two Ewes” card has sold over 200 millions copies. In addition […]
Retro Geek, the newly launched feature by Steve Dickenson and Todd Clark has ended as of yesterday’s strip. According to Jan Guszynski, Director of Marketing for Tribune Media Services, the two creators made a decision to pursue other joint and independent projects.
Al Jaffee, the MAD Magazine cartoonist who draws the MAD Fold-In and one of this year’s Reuben Award nominees has been profiled by the New York Times. An excerpt: So Mr. Jaffee became a writer-artist. And in 1964 he had an idea. Playboy, Life and other magazines had their lavish color fold-outs, so Mad, he […]
Comicmix.com has interviewed Rich Stevens regarding his long running webcomic Diesel Sweeties and its current foray into newspapers.Here’s an excerpt: Nearly 2000 strips and a newspaper syndication deal later, DS has evolved into an Internet phenomenon of sorts. The series is often held up as a prime example of the success an online-based comic can […]
Wiley Miller, creator of Non Sequitur, was interviewed by the Kennebunkport Post. Nothing too new from this interview, but does an excellent recap of the Wiley’s history before Non Sequitur and how his feature came about.Here’s a sample: “When my friends and I would hang out I would just do little doodles on napkins. They […]
Scott Lincoln has posted a website to showcase his comic feature Ralf the Destroyer, a comic that he says is now in development with United Media Syndicate. Scott has worked for several years with Guy Gilchrist and had an inspirational strip called Solomon Road that was syndicated through D.B.R. Media for a couple of years.You […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial cartoonist David Horsey found himself in an uncomfortable situation when one of his cartoons unintentionally offended many of the Jewish faith. The cartoon which ran last Thursday depicts two prodigal sons. The first, representing investment firms returning to a receptive father willing to bail him out and a second an individual home […]
Most of the NCS Division Awards candidates have been posted. Here is the run down so far. Animation Feature Brad Bird, “Ratatouille” Sylvain Deboissy, “Surf’s up” David Silverman, “The Simpsons Movie” Television Animation Sandra Equiha &Amp; Jorge Gutierrez, “El Tigre: The Adventures, of Manny Rivera Stephen Silver, “Kim Possible” Richard Webber, “Purple and Brown” Book […]
A Swedish cartoonist/blogger who has posted photos of some of the cartooning industry’s legendary cartoonists. Names like: Al Capp, Otto Soglow, Jimmy Swinnerton, Hal Foster, Westover, Goldberg, Hatlo and Chic Young.The first thing that jumps out at me is that they all wore ties. At their drawing board. Okay, so maybe it was for the […]
Mark Anderson writes on his blog that the Chicago Tribune is planning to change their Sunday comics from broadsheet to tabloid size. The comics appear to be tucked inside their section of “The Guide.” Below is the notice Mark posted. He’s promised to also post pictures when it comes out. Starting next Sunday, TV Week […]