Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batuik is well into this book signing tour to promote his new book “Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe” and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. According to the Akron Beakon Journal, his first book signing in Akron brought out over 400 people. The book, which is printed by a small press […]
The Billings Gazette added four new features earlier this year: Pickles, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy and Baby Blues and now they have added Pearls Before Swine and Prickly City to their line ups. To make room for the new features, they have dropped B.C. and Mallard Fillmore. Additionally, the paper has announced that it will […]
The Kansas City Star takes a look at Pat Oliphant, who at age 72, has no plan to retire and has released a new book entitled: “Leadership: Cartoons & Sculpture From the Bush Years” which as you can read from the title, contains cartoons and photos of sculptures of George W. Bush.Regarding caricaturing politicians he […]
Back in June, I told you that the Miami Herald was holding a contest called the “Great Cartoonist Search” to find a local cartoonist to create a cartoon that reflects South Florida. Over 155 cartoonists submitted and over 11 thousand votes were cast. Jim Morin, the Herald’s editorial cartoonist was one of the judges that […]
Amy Schulz Johnson, Charles Schulz’ daughter appeared on The Early Show this morning to defend her father’s good name and criticize Michael Michaelis book “Schulz and Peanuts.” The “whole thing (book)” is wrong, Schulz Johnson asserted, “and the reason it’s wrong is because he puts negative twists on everything, and he psychoanalyzes my dad and […]
A columnist for the Advertiser in Newfoundland is missing Gary Larson’s Far Side which ended 12 years ago. Far Side cartoons were like no newspaper cartoons before or since. They were not only off the wall, they were out the door, down the street and out in the ozone.
Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne live blogged the GOP presidential debate held in Michigan last Tuesday. Henry covered the event as the cartoonist for the Detroit News but also as a writer for the National Review online. You can check out his sketches from the debate over on the Detroit News web site or […]
Plain Dealer columnist Michael Heaton, despite admitting his was touched by the death of Funky Winkerbean character Lisa Moore, is worried that it will become a trend as cartoonists see the attention that Tom Batuik received. So what do we have to look forward to in the funnies of the near future? Marmaduke the mutt […]
Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written a positive review of Schulz and Peanuts the new biography of Charles M. Schulz by David Michaelis for the Wall Street Journal. The cartoons are also terrifically funny and edgy, even after all these years. The wonder of “Peanuts” is that it worked on so many levels […]
Retail creator Norm Feuti has a new book, Pretending You Care, is coming out next week. The Sun Chronicle has reviewed the book and interviewed Norm. Although “Pretending You Care” includes dozens of memorable “Retail” strips, Feuti’s book is unlike most cartoonist opuses in that the content isn’t confined to artwork. Instead, Feuti offers plenty […]
Last week I wrote about the new Schulz and Peanuts biography of Charles M. Schulz that that is being received coldly by the Schulz family. There is now an official web site for the book that includes a promotional video interview with the book’s author David Michaelis along with tour information and advanced promotional quotes.Hat […]
Yesterday Tom Batuik was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss death in the comics.
Amy Lago, comics editor at the Washington Post, was the guest on this weeks Comics Coast to Coast podcast. She handles Berke Breathed and Brian Crane to name a couple, and has helped launch Darby Conley, Stephan Pastis, and Jef Mallett. Amy lets us in on what an editor does and how we can help […]
“History Revealed” is a new exhibit in Chicago that will feature the cartoon art of Bill Mauldin and Jules Feiffer. The show opens Friday, October 26 and runs through January 26th 2008 and includes watercolors, original pen and ink, illustrations and a limited edition reprint of Bill’s famous “Weeping Lincoln.” This exhibition will explore subtleties […]
The American Thinker blog takes a look at the recent Chapter 11 filing of Movie Gallery, the largest retail DVD rental operator, who’s business has been swept away by the internet and digital cable. Movie Gallery’s mistake was investing $1 Billion dollars into Hollywood video two years ago and never seeing the revenue come in […]