A movie based on the Mandrake the Magician comic is heading into production to be a movie. Criss Angel, an illustionist/magician who has a television show called “Mind Freak”, is cast as the main character and will provide some of the special effects. Chuck Russell, who directed The Mask and The Scorpion King has signed […]
Dean Young, son of Blondie creator Chic Young opened up a chain of sandwich shops last year called Dagwood Sandwich Shoppe. The Palm Beach Post food critic, Charles Passy, has written up a review of his recent experience eating there. But the real appeal of Dagwood’s may be its signature Dagwood sandwich. It costs $9.69 […]
From ComicsDC blog comes news that four nationally known cartoonists’ work has been included in the Smithsonian’s American Presidents exhibit. Pat Oliphant’s work includes some of his sculptures of various presidents. Edward Sorels has a caricature/painting of Jimmy Carter depicted as Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Jack Davis has a caricature of President Nixon shaking […]
Dan Piraro gets a write-up in The Suburban (Quebec) about his feature Bizarro. Some of the material covered includes: life as a syndicated cartoonist, his interest in environmental and animal rights, and religion.
The Commercial Dispatch announced Monday that they have dropped Wizard of Id, B.C. Dennis the Menace and Blondie in a recent redesign of their features section. Non-legacy strips such as Lio, The Other Coast and the Elderberries also were tossed out to make room for seven new features that include: Zits, Baby Blues, Flo and […]
Terry LaBan, co-writer and artist for Edge City talks to Comic Book Resources about his feature.An excerpt: Q. In what ways does the daily format work to your advantage in telling stories and to what degree is it frustrating? A. I don’t think it’s often appreciated what a unique and cool way a daily comic […]
Stan Goldberg (Archie Comics), Bunny Hoest (The Lockhorns), and Mike Lynch (magazine cartoonist) will be paneling a discussion on 1940s and 1950s comics and the post-war Long Island life this Sunday at the Long Island Museum. The event is free and runs from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Received an email from Dan Thompson announcing that Humorous Maximus is back up and serving out comics again. Participating cartoonists are getting their cartoons back onto the site, and Steve Canyon and Latigo are up and running as well.
Daryl Cagle has announced that his editorial cartoons featured on Cagle.com now have RSS feeds to notify subscribers when an editorial cartoon has been updated. As one who gets nearly all of my news via RSS feeds, this is a welcomed feature. Now if Daryl can get an RSS feed on his blog, I’ll be […]
Mikhaela Reid’s The Boiling Point is now on GoComics.Hat tip: E&P
Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post has won the Freedom of the Press award from the Anti-Defamation Legue’s Mountain States Office for his cartoons about bigotry and separation of church and state.
Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press this month. In the last 10 years, the feature has won many awards including: “Hot Comic Strip of the Year,” as named by Rolling Stone magazine; and, second place two years in a row for Best Cartoon in […]
Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos has posted a video of him sketching Baldo on YouTube. Hat Tip: E&P.
Allan Holtz, over at the Stripper’s Guide blog, spent a day going through the Los Angeles Examiner archives and found a trove of George Herriman cartoons dating 1906 (Herriman worked at the paper from 1906 to 1909). Allan spent the day making copies and is asking for readership interest in whether he posts to them […]
Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]