Marcus Hamilton recently spoke at the Scholastic Art Awards Ceremony in North Carolina. His speech centered on his career as a cartoonist and the serendipitous moment when he was invited to take over on Hank Ketcham’s Dennis the Menace feature in 1995. His speech was received with a standing ovation.
Aaron McGruder spoke at University of the Pacific during one of their Black History Month events. In his one hour speech and question and answer period, Aaron talked about controversy (particularly the “N” word), and his cartooning motivations (“money”). He also mentioned the Boondocks movie which he says is in the beginning stages.
I haven’t talked about the newspaper industry in a while. The last time I posted on this topic was a gloom and doom article stating that the newspaper (print, mind you) will be dead within 10 years. The Las Vegas Sun has a story today that the Newspaper Association of America will spend $75 million […]
Jose Varela, the freelance editorial cartoonist for the El Nuevo Herald, who stormed The Miami Herald offices last November has pleaded no contest to assault and burglary charges in return for a sentence of two years probation. He was also ordered to take anger control classes, continued psychiatric counseling and make a $500 donation to […]
Here’s the run down so far of what shake-ups were seen in a few papers across the country this week.Wiley Miller’s Non-Sequitur has beat out Get Fuzzy, Rhymes with Orange and Preteena in the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram’s comic poll.Brian Crane’s Pickles was the try-out comic in the News Observer as a replacement for […]
From the Baldo web site comes news that the world premiere of the first Baldo television episodes will showcased at the San Diego Film Festival (March 8-18). Baldo creators Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos will be on hand March 14 to be part of a panel entitled “From Paper to Screen: Getting Comics Produced for […]
The LA Times recently looked at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. The school currently has 18 students who have pay $14,000 a year for the two-year course. Interestingly the school was financed through a state grant and other cartoonists – including Jean Schulz who was quoted as saying, conventional colleges […]
Daryl Cagle is turning up the heat on the debate of which “best of” book is, well, best. With the recent release of Charles Brooks’ Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2007 (BECY), Daryl, who creates the The Best Political Cartoons of the Year 2007 (BPCY), is challenging readers of his blog to count the […]
This article over at E&P reminds me that “Open Season” has been released to DVD. Open Season is based on a movie treatment written by In The Bleachers cartoonist Steve Moore. You can read my interview with Steve and his work on Open Season here. If you haven’t had a chance to see Open Season, […]
E&P is reporting that there is a new exhibit planned at the Charles M. Schulz Museum that is focusing on the influence of Peanuts on cartooning and pop culture. The exhibit runs March 3rd through January 28 of 2008 and will include over 50 comics and 50 editorial cartoons that reference Peanuts.
Congratulations are in order to Patrick McDonnell and his Muttscomics.com web site which is celebrating its fourth year in operation. When it launched in 2003 with 5,000 daily visitors which has ballooned to well over 25,000 today.In other Patrick news, a Best of Mutts collection will be released this fall along with another children’s book […]
There’s been quite a bit of news regarding comic strip cartoonists attending this year’s New York Comic-Con next month. From Rina Piccolo’s web site is news that she’ll be there on the 25th to sign prints of her feature Tina’s Groove. As I reported yesterday, she’ll also be panelling a discussion on non-traditional paths into […]
Charles Schulz was posthumously inducted into the World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame this month. Gold medalist Scott Hamilton presented the medal to Charles’ wife Jean.
From the Comic Rack is a tidbit that The Complete Dick Tracy volumes that were origninally planned to roll out every quarter have been rescheduled to roll out every twice a year. The first volume was released in October by IDW.
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has posted her first animated editorial cartoon on her web site. The flash piece runs about less than a minute and uses actual audio from President Bush as opposed to other editorial cartoon animators who use their own voices.Hat tip: E&P