The Cincinnati Enquirer has published a small interview with Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell about the origin of his feature. Q: Was (Mutts) difficult to create? A: The names were the tough part. For a long time, Earl was named Zero. I mentioned it to Charles Schulz, and he told me to name him after my […]
Over on the Atlantla Journal-Constitution’s web site, they’ve created a gallery of 12 of Mike Luckovich’s favorite editorial cartoons. Visitors are able to vote on each cartoon. The most popular one is a turkey, with axe in hand, ready to cut off the head of an Atlanta Falcon football player – clearly a favorite local […]
Editor’s note: Each week I invite a cartoonist to list 10 or so other cartoonists whose work he/she admires or has influenced their own work. This week’s featured cartoonist is Dave Coverly. Click on the cartoonists’ names to explore more about them and their work.Dave Coverly‘s Speed Bump launched in 1994 and is now in […]
Photos courtesy of John Hart StudiosPerhaps no other cartoonist, with so little cartooning experience, has ever taken on such a iconic and highly syndicated feature as Mason Mastroianni has with the famous comic strip B.C.. Under normal circumstances, an aspiring cartoonist and his comic feature would be given a developmental period to work with an […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has created a catalog of the 98 political cartoons regarding the George W. Bush administration that was on exhibit in Washington D.C. this summer during their 50th Anniversary convention. The exhibit, as well as the book, is entitled “Bush Leaguers, Cartoonists Take On The White House.” The book […]
On the heals of yesterday’s story in the New York Times about Scott Adams taking over one the day-to-day business of one of his restaurants, comes news from the Times of London which lists Scott as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers. Notable names in the top 10 include Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Tom […]
Daryl Cagle has been keeping track of the number of email subscriptions each of the editorial cartoonists that are featured on his site have. The cartoonists in order of their ranking are as follows:1. Daryl Cagle 2. Pat Bagley 3. Eric Allie 4. Monte Wolverton 5. Matt Bors 6. Andy Singer 7. Brian Fairrington 8. […]
The San Diego Press Club has announced this year’s journalism awards. Of cartooning note is Lucas Turnbloom who took first for editorial cartooning for a daily paper (his “The More Things Change” cartoon ran in the USA Today), and took first and second in the non-daily category. His father, Dean Turnbloom took 3rd in the […]
Dilbert creator Scott Adams went into the restaurant business a decade ago at two locations: Stacey’s Cafe in Waterford and Pleasanton California. Pleasanton has doen well, but the Waterford location has struggled and as business partner Stacey Belkin has been over-extended and Scott began to take on more of the day-to-day operations of the Waterford […]
After 18 years in the North County Times, Mark Thornhill has left the paper for other projects. North County movers and shakers. Some of the local politicians I’ve caricatured on the Opinion page have been good sports and have even called me to request that I send them original artwork of themselves so they could […]
This weeks guest on the Comics Coast to Coast podcast is Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano. This week Francesco Marciuliano mixes it up with us from a cell phone, on this very silly interview. ‘Ces is a very funny guy, and he lets us in on the legacy of Sally Forth and what it’s like […]
The Houston Chronicle announced yesterday that they are printing all of their comics in color starting on Monday, but that they are dropping a full page of comics. The dropped comics will still be carried on their online offerings. Why is the paper doing this? It’s a cost-cutting measure. The Chronicle has run more comics […]
How cool is this? Over on Tom Tomorrow’s blog he writes that he created a series of cartoons that can be projected onto sides of buildings in San Francisco and Seattle as part of promotional efforts for a new mobile service. Passers by can text their punch-line into the empty word balloon, completing the cartoon. […]
Robert “Bob” Bindig, the artist for the comic strip Big Boy from 1985 to 1995 passed away on Tuesday at the age of 87. Bob was drafted into World War II where he served in the Pacific theater from 1943 to 1946. According to the Veterans History Project, he was assigned to the Psychological Warfare […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced plans to buyout 55-60 employees as part of a cost reduction effort due to sagging ad revenue. The employee buyouts are voluntary. Stuart Carlson, who has been the paper’s editorial cartoonist for 24 years, reports that 22 employees have taken the paper up on its buyout option, but he […]