Retail creator Norm Feuti has a new book, Pretending You Care, is coming out next week. The Sun Chronicle has reviewed the book and interviewed Norm. Although “Pretending You Care” includes dozens of memorable “Retail” strips, Feuti’s book is unlike most cartoonist opuses in that the content isn’t confined to artwork. Instead, Feuti offers plenty […]
Last week I wrote about the new Schulz and Peanuts biography of Charles M. Schulz that that is being received coldly by the Schulz family. There is now an official web site for the book that includes a promotional video interview with the book’s author David Michaelis along with tour information and advanced promotional quotes.Hat […]
Yesterday Tom Batuik was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss death in the comics.
Amy Lago, comics editor at the Washington Post, was the guest on this weeks Comics Coast to Coast podcast. She handles Berke Breathed and Brian Crane to name a couple, and has helped launch Darby Conley, Stephan Pastis, and Jef Mallett. Amy lets us in on what an editor does and how we can help […]
“History Revealed” is a new exhibit in Chicago that will feature the cartoon art of Bill Mauldin and Jules Feiffer. The show opens Friday, October 26 and runs through January 26th 2008 and includes watercolors, original pen and ink, illustrations and a limited edition reprint of Bill’s famous “Weeping Lincoln.” This exhibition will explore subtleties […]
The American Thinker blog takes a look at the recent Chapter 11 filing of Movie Gallery, the largest retail DVD rental operator, who’s business has been swept away by the internet and digital cable. Movie Gallery’s mistake was investing $1 Billion dollars into Hollywood video two years ago and never seeing the revenue come in […]
The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette has a new editorial cartoonist. Bruce McAtee’s cartoons will run twice a week for the paper. Bruce is a former executive director of the local YMCA and retired two years ago. His cartoons will be mostly local in nature.
Brevity co-creators Rodd Perry and Guy Endore-Kaiser will be at the Los Angeles Borders book store (Century Mall) on October 25th at 7:00 p.m. for a book signing. Rodd and Guy have two books out now: Brevity : A Collection of Comics by Guy and Rodd and Brevity 2: Another Collection of Comics by Guy […]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich will have his own exhibit in Atlanta’s finest contemporary gallery, TEW Galleries. His show begins tomorrow and runs through November 6th. This will be Mike’s first exhibit.Creative Loafing has an extensive interview with him about the exhibit, his politics, his italian suits, his blog.
A holiday special Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble will be distributed to newspapers beginning on December 3rd through the 25th. The special Christmas feature is entitled, “Roamin’ Holiday” which delves into “a lighthearted look at not getting to spend Christmas with the ones we love.”
As a follow up to the e-mail interview with Berkeley Breathed, the Comics Coast to Coast guys interviewed Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis for his reaction to some of Berkeley’s responses. On this show Tom takes a breather, and Justin sits down with Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine and asks him to comment […]
While Googling this morning for the correct spelling of Berkeley Breathed, I searched on the query “Berkeley Breathed” and clicked on his link to his site in the search results and received a warning that Google has blacklisted the site warning me that, “visiting this web site may harm your computer!”Last year Google began using […]
The University of Arizona’s student newspaper is issuing an apology in today’s newspaper for a cartoon that recently ran that many Jewish students believe is anti-Semetic. The cartoon, by staffer Joseph Topmiller, depicts a receipt with only a 7 percent tip and the punch line: “Attention all crappy tipping Jews!!! Just because you’re ‘screwing’ the […]
From Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher’s web site comes news that KAL will be speaking at George Washington University on the 19th of this month on the topic of “Iconophobia: Comics, Politics, and the Power of the Image.” The event is open to the public and runs from 7:30-9:00 p.m. KAL is also scheduled to appear at […]
Two Chicago area newspapers will be merged together in an attempt to restore profitability. The Daily Southtown will be merged this November with it’s twice-weekly sister paper. It has also brokered a deal to have rival paper Chicago Tribune take over most of the deliveries of the Sun-Times to save another $5 million.The new paper […]