News Free Comics Cover. Used by PermissionA new publication called “News Free Comics” is being launched with the hopes of gathering 2,0000 subscribers for a monthly mailing of comics strips. The proprietor, Randall Vanfossen, says that he started News Free Comics last year for local distribution and is hoping to take the idea nationally. So […]
Earlier this week, I told you about a conservative blogger who was upset at the depiction of men and the celebration of a two-mom family. The topic is no longer being discussed in the right-wing blogosphere – Kathleen Parker, syndicated columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, has written a column calling the cartoon “threadbare” and “stereotypical.” […]
A new Garfield DVD will be out in September containing 15 “dream-themed” episodes of the Garfield & Friends TV show.
Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, will join up with Bonnie Timmons (illustrator) and Jay Jackson (animator) to headline this year’s ToonFest this September 14 and 15. Glenn and Gary McCoy will be the event’s emcees. Toonfest is a celebration in Walt Disney’s boyhood in Marceline, MO and features the headlining speakers, a kids barnyard olympics, a […]
E&P noticed that the “gals” are getting together over in the Stone Soup strip. Stone Soup character Joan is having a baby shower and Elly (For Better or For Worse), Cathy (Cathy), Connie (Zits mom), and Alice from Dilbert have made cameo appearances. See today and yesterday’s strip.I find this interesting. Who do you invite […]
Jamie Smith writes in to alert me to a month long exhibit called “Cartoon North: Sequential Art in Alaska ” in Fairbanks Alaska that includes over 70 Alaska native artists (animators, cartoonists, inkers, pencilists, letterers, graphic artists, writers, and painters) including Chad Carpenter (Tundra), editorial cartoonists Dan Darrow and Peter Dunlap-Shohl. The opening was on […]
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) editorial cartoonist Frank Cammuso also has a blog which he’s maintained since March of this year. He is now among the growing number of editorial cartoonists that have one.
Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger, will be honored this August with a cancer research golf tournament benefit in his name. Marshall’s involvement with cancer and cancer research data back to 2001 when he was diagnosed with Melanoma Cancer when he was 32 years old. As a cancer survivor, he’s helped organize the annual […]
Over on Lee Glover’s blog, “Mice Laugh Softly Charlotte” he’s got a rare treat that will only be posted for the next couple of weeks (next 4 to be exact). It’s a rarely seen animation circa 1935 called Teched in the Head and featured the “debut of comic-strip character Barney Google.” Tetched in the Head […]
On August 9, the Charles M. Schulz Museum will celebrate its 5th anniversary. There will be live music and free ice cream cake to go with the free admission that evening.In other museum news, Scott McCloud will be on hand on August 18 and Tom Tomorrow, creator of This Modern World, is scheduled to visit […]
Rob Harrell, who created (and ended) Big Top will have his first solo art show at the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin TX June 9th through July 12. You can see a slide show of his work at the Gallery’s web site. The fine art is impressive.Hat tip: Eric at Talk About Comics blog.UPDATE: More […]
For those keeping count (you are aren’t you?), I have posted over 2,000 blog posts now in the 20 months of being on the web. As impressive as that is, it is dwarfed by the 53,590 pieces of spam that has been caught in the spam filter (and I didn’t add the filter until about […]
Secret Asian Man © Tak Toyoshima / Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Used by permissionUnited Media will be launching a new feature on July 16 called Secret Asian Man by Tak Toyoshima. The feature centers around Osamu “SAM” Takahashi, a struggling comic strip artist, who is a second generation Japanese American growing up in […]
Last Sunday’s Opus has riled those on the right as Berkley Breathed’s Sunday-only depicts two kids talking about David Dinkle having two moms and no dad. The last panel has one character saying, “Makes you wonder how he’ll do without a male role model in the house” while an beer drinking, cigarette smoking Steve (clad […]
Last Sunday, Mike Lynch was going to panel a discussion on cartooning and Long Island along with Bunny Hoest and Stan Goldberg. Mike has posted photos of the event.