Francesco Marciuliano, the writer for Sally Forth and Medium Large is now blogging. Topics seemed scattered but mostly cartoon related.

Fox has kept The Simpsons Movie away from critics – usually a sign of a stinker, but movie reviews that are now being posted appear to be mostly in the positive. Over at Rotten-Tomatoes it is currently scoring a 79% (29 reviews total, 23 positive, 6 negative).A bad review: “The movie isn’t a disaster, just […]

While visiting Springfield Vermont (Springfield was the Springfield that beat out all other 13 Springfields vying to be THE Springfield in the Simpsons’ Movie), Matt Groening has said that he’d like to return and visit the Center for Cartoon Studies. The man behind Bart and Homer says he is impressed that Vermont is home to […]

A couple of funny page updates. The Crescent-News is starting to use the guest comic slot to tryout new features. First up for July and August is Brian Crane’s Pickles.The Edmonton Sun has added Six Chix, Pajama Diaries, and Dog Eat Doug to their line-up .The Press-Telegram has added 13 comics to a new section […]

Bill Mauldin, best known for his Willie and Joe characters to comment on World War II, will have a two-volume collection set published by Fantagraphics Books. According to E&P, many of the WWII cartoons have never been reprinted before. The book is entitlted “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years” and is slated for release in […]

Dear AAEC membersI didn’t get a chance to respond to one of Dave Astor’s stories about the blogging session at this month’s AAEC convention. The discussion apparently didn’t go well and was received luke warmly. The most egregious comment, in my opinion, came from David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who Astor reported as saying, […]

According to E&P editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and conservative Michelle Malkin got into a bit of a tiff on their blogs as Malkin called a recent Ted cartoon a “troop-bashing tantrum.” See the cartoon here.In her blog post she writes: Unhinged cartoonist Ted Rall is throwing another troop-bashing tantrum. Normally, I would not feed this […]

Last May I blogged about Universal Press teaming up with Lulu.com, an on-demand printing company, to allow comic fans the ability to create their own books and calendars from their favorite comic features. The first two features are now ready for order: Clear Blue Water, by Karen Montague-Reyes, and Come Here Often?’ Bad Pickup Lines […]

Matt Groening is interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show about his upcoming movie – The Simpson’s Movie

King Features has announced that Anne Gibbons, a well known cartoonist in magazine gag cartooning and greeting cards, has replaced Carla Ventresca as the Thursday Six Chix. According to the King press release Carla has moved on to “pursue other interests” (she and her husband, Henry Beckett, launched a new feature called On a Claire […]

Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, will be co-chair of this year’s “Cartoons & Cocktails” – a fund-raising event of the National Press Club to support “Young D.C.” (a teen newspaper), the Cartoonists Rights Network International, and the National Press Club scholarship program.

According to E&P, Paige Braddock, creator of Jane’s World, will be the cartoonistâ??in-residence on August 18 at the Carton Art Museum in San Francisco. While there, she’ll talk to visitors as well as work on her cartooning.

Matt Groening is getting a lot of press as The Simpson’s movie debut nears (this Friday). The Independent has a great write up on Matt’s career from waiting tables, creating the alternative comic Life in Hell to creating The Simpson’s franchise (worth $2 billion/annually).

From E&P comes news that Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker is now publishing a full-color 20 page magazine called Mort Walker’s The Best of Times. The publication has already had a trial run in the Connecticut area last month. As he envision it, it will be a 40 page publication that runs 50% ads and […]

I’m seeing more search engine traffic going to my previous story about the Funky Winkerbean story arc about the impending death of the Lisa Moore character. When I see this kind of traffic, it usually tells me that the strip is causing a stir amongst general comic readers (as opposed to most of us Daily […]