Aaron Johnson, creator of the What the Duck web comics and the syndication bingo game (see announcement, update, progress report), tells me that it’s official – he’s signed a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate that guarantees a 2009 launch (at the latest). The paper has expressed interest in changing the feature’s name before it’s […]
I don’t know if Scott Adams frequents The Daily Cartoonist and saw our discussion last week on newspaper trends, but he’s waded into the discussion by posting his prediction on the future of newspapers. In short it will happen within your next 2 mobile phone upgrades. I predict that the end of printed newspapers will […]
E&P reports that Dilbert creator Scott Adams has selected 150 of his blog posts to be published in book format. Blog topics include: “politics, religion, marriage, dancing, underwear, aliens, and why kangaroos don’t drive cars.” The book is due out on October 22nd by Portfolio/Penguin.This isn’t too unusual for the blogosphere. Many self-publishers offer “blog […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has announced that Doonesbury creator, Garry Trudeau, will make a rare public appearance on behalf of the school on October 22. The event costs $50 a person. A framed original strip is also being auctioned off in a related event. Auction begins on October 17 and ends on the 23rd. […]
Coast to Coast podcasters Brian Dunaway, Justin Thompson, Tom Racine recently emailed Berkeley Breathed with 8 questions to which Berkeley responded. The recent Coast To Coast podcast has the responses.
cIndyCenter.com has a short interview with Dave Astor, senior editor at Editor and Publisher wherein he talks about the trends in comics and his duties at the magazine. Interview lasts 11 minutes or so.cIndyCenter.com is an “interview show that highlights the best in contemporary and indie creators.”
With the last week of the Funky Winkerbean story-line of the dying Lisa Moore character, newspapers and readers are talking about the impact and appropriateness of the topic. It’s a subject that is still being debated on several threads on this blog. As a recap, here are what some of the paper’s are writing on […]
From the Three Men in a Tub blog comes a little gem. Roy Schneider, creator of the feature Humble Stumble, has written his own theme song. It’s found on YouTube. See below.
The Fayetteville Observer is trying to find a suitable replacement for Doug Marlette’s Kudzu, and like most paper’s they offered a poll. The results indicate there is a generational shift happening in the comic pages today. Instead rolling out the poll results, they interviewed their readers, an associate professor, and a syndication president. According to […]
The L.A. Times has an extensive profile on Aaron McGruder and his work on the second season of the television version of The Boondocks. Aaron talks about the difficulties of putting out the comic while being thrown into making an animated television show, what to expect in season two that starts next week, more use […]
Editor and Publisher reports that Phil Frank has received, posthumously, the first Herb Caen lifetime achievement award by the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club. The award is named after Herb Caen, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist who died in 1997.
For the second time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has invited readers to submit editorial cartoons for the vacationing Mike Luckovich. Main themes this year included Larry Craig, resignations in the Bush administration, the war on Iraq and Michael Vick.The cartoons were collected and voted on for the chance to receive an autographed cartoon original by Mike. […]
Tony Carrillo’s’, F Minus has been named “Best Syndicated Comic Strip” by Phoenix New Times. They also have a funny Q and A with Tony. The report that F Minus is in 125 newspapers across the country.
Online editorial cartoonists duo John Cox and Allen Forkum have decided to end their online cartoons. Allen wrote and John drew the cartoons, but it was Allen who decided that he had to refocus his energies.From their blog: For better or worse, I’ve always had to approach the editorial cartoon work as a “part time” […]
E&P notes that The International Comic Arts will be at the Library of Congress this year (Oct. 18-20). Scheduled speakers include Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher and Robert Russell, founder of the Cartoonists Rights Network International.