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 […]
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 […]
John Reads long attempt to start his Stay Tooned! quarterly magazine has hit its first milestone – launching. The premiere issue features Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), John Rose (Snuffy Smith), Greg Cravens (The Buckets), Scott Stantis (Prickly City), Steve Kelley (The Times-Picayune), Marshall Ramsey (The Clarion-Ledger), Steven Butler (Sonic X), John Deaton (The Toon […]
The Caller-Times, Corpus Christi TX, reports that they have added 11 new comic features to their daily comics page and five new Sunday comics. The paper reports that after dropping Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse two months ago, readers insisted the paper reinstate the feature. As a result the editor decided to bring […]
I failed to mention in the National Headliners Award announcement last week that Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Washington D.C.’s Politico, that he took third place for Illustrative Graphics for newspapers and magazines. I don’t know if his illustrations are posted online, but you can see his editorial cartoons.Hat tip to Mike Rhode.
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News has won this year’s National Headliners Award for editorial cartooning. Coming in second and third place are Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Michael Ramirez of the Investorâ??s Business Daily.Peters took 2nd place for the award in 2002.
E&P is reporting that the usual leaking of the Pulitzer finalists list is not so leaky this year. For years, Pulitzer Prize Administrator Sig Gissler has firmly directed the juries that choose finalists for the 14 journalism categories not to disclose them before the Pulitzer Board reveals winners in April. Nevertheless, for many years, E&P […]
William Warren, the 2006 Locher Award winner, has been awarded with the Charles M. Schulz award given to the best college cartoonist. William is a student at Wake Forest University, and won the award for his comic strip Lummox. The Schulz award is given annually by the Scripps Howard Foundation.Finalist for the award include Isaac […]