According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Home Video has become the exclusive worldwide home video distributor of over 50 Peanuts specials. Warner plans to remaster many old classics such as A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The first collectors DVD will be Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown […]
Jim Borgman, Dave Coverly and Craig Boldman will all be panelists at the “Books by the Banks” book festival in November. This is a first time event for the festival and the three cartoonists will panel a discussion entitled “So, You Draw Cartoons for a Living.” The festival is on the 3rd of November.
From E&P we learn that Parade Magazine is adding cartoons by Dave Coverly and Carla Ventresca to their weekly LaughParade page starting this Sunday. The article doesn’t make it clear if the cartoons added are Dave’s Speed Bump panel or Carla’s On a Claire Day strip.Parade magazine has featured Bunny Hoest and John Reiner’s The […]
The Comic Wire has an interesting interview with Fox Trot creator Bill Amend who dropped his daily strip back in December of last year. He talks about his contract with Universal Press, how he produces his Sunday feature, character identification, merchandising and more nondescript, vague answers about what he does with his time now that […]
David Reddick who does the comic feature The Trek Life that runs on Startrek.com has turned 2 years old and will now be seen 3-times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).
Mark Heath writes in after seeing Roy Schneider’s Humble Stumble theme song to mention that he too has a theme song for his feature Spot the Frog albeit “more humble (i.e. amateur) than his.” Check them out on the Spot the Frog Radio Theater Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Here’s #5:
Aaron Johnson, creator of the What the Duck web comics and the syndication bingo game (see announcement, update, progress report), tells me that it’s official – he’s signed a development contract with Universal Press Syndicate that guarantees a 2009 launch (at the latest). The paper has expressed interest in changing the feature’s name before it’s […]
I don’t know if Scott Adams frequents The Daily Cartoonist and saw our discussion last week on newspaper trends, but he’s waded into the discussion by posting his prediction on the future of newspapers. In short it will happen within your next 2 mobile phone upgrades. I predict that the end of printed newspapers will […]
E&P reports that Dilbert creator Scott Adams has selected 150 of his blog posts to be published in book format. Blog topics include: “politics, religion, marriage, dancing, underwear, aliens, and why kangaroos don’t drive cars.” The book is due out on October 22nd by Portfolio/Penguin.This isn’t too unusual for the blogosphere. Many self-publishers offer “blog […]
The Center for Cartoon Studies has announced that Doonesbury creator, Garry Trudeau, will make a rare public appearance on behalf of the school on October 22. The event costs $50 a person. A framed original strip is also being auctioned off in a related event. Auction begins on October 17 and ends on the 23rd. […]
Coast to Coast podcasters Brian Dunaway, Justin Thompson, Tom Racine recently emailed Berkeley Breathed with 8 questions to which Berkeley responded. The recent Coast To Coast podcast has the responses.
cIndyCenter.com has a short interview with Dave Astor, senior editor at Editor and Publisher wherein he talks about the trends in comics and his duties at the magazine. Interview lasts 11 minutes or so.cIndyCenter.com is an “interview show that highlights the best in contemporary and indie creators.”
With the last week of the Funky Winkerbean story-line of the dying Lisa Moore character, newspapers and readers are talking about the impact and appropriateness of the topic. It’s a subject that is still being debated on several threads on this blog. As a recap, here are what some of the paper’s are writing on […]
From the Three Men in a Tub blog comes a little gem. Roy Schneider, creator of the feature Humble Stumble, has written his own theme song. It’s found on YouTube. See below.
The Fayetteville Observer is trying to find a suitable replacement for Doug Marlette’s Kudzu, and like most paper’s they offered a poll. The results indicate there is a generational shift happening in the comic pages today. Instead rolling out the poll results, they interviewed their readers, an associate professor, and a syndication president. According to […]