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Festival of Cartoon Art announces speakers line-up

Information regarding this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art has been posted on the OSU’s Cartoon Research Library’s web site. Scheduled speakers will include Nick Anderson, Ray Billingsley, Jules Feiffer, Mike Peters, R.C. Harvey, Ted Rall, Brian and Mort Walker. There are more lined up including authors, publishers and other notables. The schedule has also been […]

World’s longest comic strip attempted

Mark Pett, creator of Lucky Cow holds the Guinness World Record for the LARGEST comic strip. Back in June of 2003, he organized a fund-raising event for the local high school art department wherein students recreated a larger scale version of a Lucky Cow strip. As far as I know, that record still stands. You […]

Wicks cartoon legal case coverage

Bryan Munn at Sequential, a blog that covers “Canadian Comix News & Culture,” has been following the Ben Wicks abandoned comic court case. Here’s review of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. It appears that under Canadian law the defendants have to prove that the Wicks family had left it property behind […]

Calvin and Hobbes becomes animated on YouTube

From YouTube. I’m actually surprised at how well the animators tried to keep the original drawing style of Bill Watterson. The next thing I thought was, I’m really glad Bill never sold out and licensed C&H for animation. Watching the short did take away something from strip. Because the strip had no voices attached to […]

Cartoonists in the news: Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley Breathed continues his book tour. He was interviewed by the Northwest Herald. Did you think “Bloom County” was going to be as successful as it was? The only reason that “Bloom County” worked in the ’80s is because I didn’t know what I was doing. I had no intentions of being any more of […]

How to go about syndicate the wrong way

Charles Brubaker writes in to point out attention to Chris Harding’s blog wherein he writes about his short-lived syndication deal (Feet of Clay) back in the 1997-1998. It’s a two part posting (one and two) and offers a glimpse behind the curtain into the demands a daily comics strip can have on one who may […]

Newspaper drops its cartoonist over cartoon caper

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise has dropped the use of upstate New York freelance cartoonist Mark Wilson (aka “Marquil”) after they ran a cartoon critical of New York State’s handling of an armed standoff. Complaints flooded in and the paper caved (link provided goes to a google cached version of the story as the original is […]

Signe Wilkinson ticks off mayoral candidate

Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has created a stir with supporters of mayoral candidate Chaka Fatta with a recent cartoon. The cartoon is described as: The cartoon satirized Fattah’s criticism of rival Michael Nutter’s “stop, question and frisk” anti-crime proposal, by showing Fattah speaking to two young children whose bodies have large bullet […]

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