Julie Larson recently featured a fan inside her Dinette Set comic strip. Charles Barngrover, a retired University of Cincinnati business professor works with stain glass and gives away his creations. The Dinette Set for February 18 showed signs in her strip reading, “Barngrover Inc.,” “Charles Stained Glass!” and “Larson Special Order.” Apparently, Barngrover met Julie […]
Tom Spurgeon reports that the 2007 Glyph Award nominees have been posted. For best comic strip the nominees are: Candorville by Darrin Bell, The K Chronicles by Keith Knight, Templar, Arizona by Spike, (th)Ink by Keith Knight, and Watch Your Head by Cory Thomas. There is also a category called best reprint publication which includes […]
The Helen Day Art Center will be opening a new exhibit entitled Fine Toon: The Art of Vermont Cartoonists to feature 13 cartoonists with Vermont ties including Harry Bliss, Frank Miller, Ed Koren, Hal Mayforth, James Sturm, Stephen Bissette, Alison Bechdel, Tim Newcomb and Jeff Danziger. The exhibit runs through March 31 and costs $5. […]
After receiving complaints that the print on the Sunday comics were too small and hard to read, they’re printing the comics bigger – but discontinuing a couple of strips to make room. They’ve dropped Peanuts, Frank & Earnest, Rose is Rose, Blondie, B.C. and Family Circus. These will continue to run as dailies. Mother Goose […]
Patrick McDonnell was interviewed by the Star Ledger where he discusses the dogs in his life that inspires in comic strip Mutts.
KOTV in Tulsa has a story (including video) of their interview with Tulsa World editorial cartoonist (and Kudzu creator), Doug Marlette.
I’m seeing a few rumblings across some movie bulletin board and blogs that Christopher Columbus has picked up the movie rights to Dilbert after they lapsed from Columbia (who produced the short run Dilbert tv show). Columbus is the director behind the Harry Potter movies. Speculation circulates that it will be a live action movie […]
Click book cover above to buy book through Amazon. A new collection book will be coming out on March 12 entitled Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression and as the title suggests, the book contains nearly 100 cartoons and illustrations that never saw print because they were axed by editors or publishers […]
The Miami Herald editorial cartoonist Jim Morin has won the 2007 Herblock Prize award for editorial cartooning and a cash prize of $10,000. The award ceremony is April 4 at the Library of Congress according to E&P.
For those in the Pittsburgh area, The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder will be in Pittsburgh tomorrow evening to meet the public (and presumably speak). The evening is sponsored by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. The event is not free and begins at 8 pm. Visit the link above for contact info.
Fantagraphics has announced that they will be publishing a Complete Pogo series that will be designed by cartoonist Jeff Smith, according to Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter. Fantagraphics had previously published 11 soft-cover books covering five and a half years. This new volume will be published annually with about two years of material per […]
Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey’s exhibit opens tomorrow with 101 of his best editorial cartoons from the last 10 years with the Mississippi newspaper. There’s a good write-up about it on the Clarion-Ledger’s web siteFrom his blog he described what he felt when he saw the exhibit before the official opening: For a reason that […]
Today, Creators Syndicate posted the first strip of a new feature that they have under development. The new feature is entitled The Dogs of C Kennel by Mick Mastroianni. The web site says: Creators Syndicate receives thousands of submissions every year, of which we only select a few to work with. From time to time, […]
In one of the weirder stories I’ve been tracking these last couple of months is the one about the Garfield statue that was beheaded back in December when the statue was “hugged.” The head was found a couple of days later at the side of the road several miles away. Police were tipped off as […]
Mikhaela Reid writes in to tell me about an editorial cartoon and illustration contest she’s involved in. The Life Without Fair Courts is a contest to garner attention to the good things the courts have done for equality in America. She mentions this would be a good contest for “any aspiring, struggling or college cartoonists.” […]