Last January I told you Frank Cho would be releasing a 10-year anniversary collection of his Liberty Meadows strip. Wednesday “Liberty Meadows 10th Anniversary Edition” will hit book shelves. It’s 176 pages and contains all the strips from the first nine collections plus a special introduction by Erik Larsen and never-before-seen college strips than started […]
John Sherffius, editorial cartoonist for the Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) has won this year’s Wilbur Award for outstanding work in the secular media addressing religious issues. John will be formally recognized in a banquet and ceremony on April 5th. John is also this year’s Herblock award winner.
Last week’s Dilbert created a stir among those “not especially religious” for a story-line mocking Jesus in the weeks leading up to Easter according to Dilbert creator Scott Adams on his blog. See beginning of story-arc. This week’s series in Dilbert caused quite a stir. It featured a new guy in the office whose name […]
I would like to take a moment to thank all those who posted their condolences and sympathies on the blog or took the time to e-mail me. My wife and I were genuinely touched by the outreach of so many people whom we’ve never met, yet somehow I can call friends.Yesterday, my mother-in-law laid to […]
Blogging will be minimal at best on Friday and into next week as I attend to family matters.–Alan
The “Left, Right, & Wrong: Celebrating the Art of Editorial Cartooning” that opened up in Seattle last February has been extended until April 15 due to great public interest. The exhibit features the editorial cartoons of David Horsey, Pat Moriarity, Andrew Wahl, Peter Bagge, Donna Barr, Lew Andrus, Dan McConnell, and George Jartos. “Whether from […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog writes in to tell me that he’s started a Fundable project to raise money to create a color daily download version of his first Spot The Frog collection. The first printing of his book will soon be out of print so he’s hoping to raise the $1000 necessary […]
Many of you know that TDC regular Dawn Douglass has spent years and a small fortune on creating a viable business model for cartoonists to make money on the web. She’s asking for feedback to a recent blog post about how cartoonists feel about her latest plan. For some months now, I’ve been trying to […]
The Cartoonists Northwest has hosted its 17th annual Toonie Award Banquet this last Saturday. At the banquet they honored this year’s winner of the Golden Toonie for Cartoonist of the Year. The winner was:Pat Moriarity (Illustration). Finalist for the award also included Mark Monlux (Web Comics), Roby Gilbert (Print Comics), and Elizabeth Pankey (Caricatures).They also […]
Gordon Campbell, who has been doing editorial cartoons for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin for the last 16 years, was let go last week. He was their “permanent stringer” for many years before becoming a staff cartoonist in 2003.In an e-mail posted over on the AAEC web site, Gordon writes, “It was not unexpected but […]
E&P reports that Alex Hallett’s Arctic Circle replaced Gasoline Alley in the Daily Gazette of Schenectady, N.Y. Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids has been reinstated in The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. after reader complaints. Pardon My Planet will be dropped to bring back Slylock Fox.Chad Carpenter’s self-syndicated (domestically) feature Tundra has been picked up […]
» Tom Richmond has posted his 3rd how-to article on the topic of caricature. As always – a wealth of information.» Check out Cafe Con Leche creator Charlos Gary on TV.» Ted Rall reacts to “Bad Cartoonist” in a very “modern, post-MacNelly style.” (See the March 9th blog post.)» Mike Lynch has video of an […]
Andrew Feinstein, co-creator of Girls and Sports, has created a web site devoted to inspire the Denver Nuggets to fire their head coach George Karl. He is not doing it anonymously, nor as he states as a personal attack on the Nugget’s head coach. As Andy explains in an early post, As a lifelong Denver […]
» A 1903 Jungle Imps original Sunday was sold for $33,900 last week . Jungle Imps was a strip created by Winsor McCay of Little Nemo in Slumberland fame which ran from 1905 to 1914. » Charles Brubaker has posted an email interview that he conducted with Chuck Asay.» Pooche Cafe creator Paul Gilligan was […]
Daryl Cagle has posted a short interview with Etta Hulme, the most widely syndicated female editorial cartoonist.Says Cagle: Etta is a charming, talented, grandmotherly character and her cartoons are just as warm and charming – in sharp contrast to the harsh, younger cartoonists. Indeed. I enjoyed the video clip and hope the larger documentary is […]