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.
Last week I alerted you that Allan Holtz was asking readers of his blog, the Stripper’s Guide, if he should post copies of some George Herriman cartoons dating back to 1906 that he found while looking in the Los Angeles Examiner’s archives. He’s decided to post them. Enjoy.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich and Rubin comic panel creator Leigh Rubin have both been honored by ForeWord Magazine’s annual book awards in the category of humor according to EampP;
Last week I mentioned that Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos had posted a video of him drawing his characters on YouTube. Here is the second video he’s posted with a mention that a third is to come.
From the Comics Journal comes news that Roger Armstrong has passed away at the age of 89 last Thursday. Roger was best known for his work on Warner Brother and Disney animation projects, but also drew a number of syndicated strips including Bugs Bunny and Little Lulu.
I’ve been subscribed to Scott Stantis’ RSS feed for a while now, so I was a bit embarrassed when a reader emailed me tell me about his blog and I realized I hadn’t even mentioned it yet. Scott, who is the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News has been posting his cartoons via the blog […]
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac has been picked up by Universal Press for syndicate this September. Richard Thompson, is perhaps better known for his weekly comic, Richard’s Poor Almanac that runs in the Washington Post. Cul de Sac was also a weekly created for the Post and has ran in that paper for the last […]
The Charles M. Schulz museum is planning an exhibit called His Life in Peanuts that will explore how autobiographical Peanuts is to Charles. The exhibit will include over 70 pieces that include childhood memories, friendships, medical issues, his life with five children seen through his comics strip. The exhibit is slated to run September 19, […]
One of my favorite comics, Tundra, by Chad Carpenter, has picked up a vacating B.C. slot in The Bellingham Herald (WA). Tundra is a self-syndicated strip that appears in over a 100 newspapers – including the L.A. Times. If you’re a fan like, me you’ll also be happy to know, he’s releasing a book of […]
Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy was recently dropped from the Herald Tribune (FL) and the editor wanted to explain why – as well as apologize for allowing Mallard Filmore into the paper. I thought “Mallard” was annoying, stupid and worst of all, not funny. I wrote a nice story about Tinsley for my editor and “Mallard” […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams turns 50 today. A somewhat retrospective post on his blog to commemorate the passing: When I was 20, I wondered what it would be like to be 50. None of my guesses were close. I assumed that “aging” was automatically bad, so I didn’t look forward to it. No one told […]
Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, The Daily Universe, periodically pulls and replaces comics when the subject matter runs contrary to the student’s honor code. A couple of days ago, they ran an editorial explaining why, but did not mention a particular instance.Excerpt: Currently, The Daily Universe includes six comic strips: Zits, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, Peanuts, […]