Reed Brennan Media Associates has announced that Kudzu by the late Doug Marlette will end in August.Due to the untimely death of creator Doug Marlette, Kudzu dailies will cease syndication with the release of Saturday, Aug. 4. The final Sunday will appear on Aug. 26.
Jerry Craft, who does Mama’s Boyz for King Features Weekly Service, will appear this Saturday at the Harlem Book Fair in New York City, according to E&P.Craft, who does his comic for the King Features Weekly Service, has a new book out called “Mama’s Boyz: Home Schoolin’.” He’ll not only sell the book but also […]
M. Wartella is starting a new comic for the legendary New York alt-weekly Village Voice called Runnin’ Scared.The weekly, half-page, full-color feature “deals strictly with local news issues,” Wartella told E&P, adding that the cartoon “isn’t available anywhere online — it’s only in the ‘dead tree’ edition.”
“Friendly Fire,” the opinion blog of the LA Daily News, has reader reaction to the paper’s recent 10-strip dump, and they’re not happy.One of the ten strips dropped by the paper was Tom Batiuk‘s Funky Winkerbean, which the paper cut before the expected, eventual completion of its ongoing and high profile cancer-related storyline.
Several editorial cartoonists remember Doug Marlette, who died July 10, in this Tulsa World article.
Norm Feuti’s Retail will have a book coming out this October, which will be more than a comics collection, according to E&P.Feuti, who rose from salesperson to store manager during more than 15 years in the retail industry, structured “Pretending You Care” as a handbook for new retail employees. The Hyperion-published paperback — mostly text […]
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, or CBLDF, is gearing up for another big auction at the upcoming Comic-Con International: San Diego, and will have some big name artwork up for grabs, according to Pulse:“The CBLDF holds its biggest auction of the year at Comic-Con, and this year brings some amazing one-of-a-kind items to raise […]
J.P. Trostle writes in with a link to his photos from the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists conference earlier this month:Finally got a chance to sort thru all my photos from last week’s 50th Anniversary of the AAEC — took 911 shots (!) with a new 2 gig chip while in DC. Anyway, here are […]
The Chicago Reader posted a story last week about the Northwest Herald bragging about its staff cartoonist, Scott Nychay, whom they had laid off months earlier.
According to the TalkAboutComics blog, Modern Tales, one of the oldest and most popular webcomics sites, is now seeking new submissions.Shaenon Garrity, Modern Tales editor, says: “With IW [Irregular Webcomic] leaving, Inannaâ??s Tears at the end of its run, and my first anniversary as MT editor fast approaching, I think itâ??s time to put out […]
The new Indie Spinner Rack, #88, was released on Wednesday. The latest issue of the audio magazine features part one of an overview of the MoCCA Art Festival and post-show events, including some of the notable book premieres that sold out, post-show parties and plenty more.
E&P reports that Daryl Cagle has added more cartoonists to his web site, including Mike Luckovich, who is returning after a 4-year hiatus.Others new to Cagle’s site are Jeff Darcy of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, the conservative team of Allen Forkum and John Cox, and alternative cartoonist Tim Eagan.
Leigh Rubin’s collection of Rubes cartoons, entitled The Wild Life of Love, has received the bronze medal for humor in Foreward Magazine’s 2006 Book of the Year Awards, according to the Creators Syndicate website, where you can get all the details.The single-panel Rubes, originally self-syndicated, now runs in more than 400 newspapers nationwide.
Rex Babin, of the Sacramento Bee, and Mikhaela Reid, an alternative weekly cartoonist, were interviewed by NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussing their favorite cartoons on George W. Bush and on cartooning the next president.You can listen to it here.
Matt Bors, who does Idiot Box for altweeklies, writes about his meeting with Dennis Kucinich at AAEC on his blog.Another altweekly cartoonist, Jen Sorensen of Slowpoke, also talks about her meeting with Kucinich on her blog as well.