Universal Press Syndicate has partnered with Lulu.com to launch a storefront in efforts to create a new way to produce and distribute their books. Lulu.com is a print on demand solution and this deal appears to give cartoonists and fans an opportunity to create their own books and calendars. Initially, the features that will be […]
John Hambrock has launched a new web site for his feature The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. It’s a quality web site that features a gallery of some of John’s favorite strips, a news blog as well as discussion forum (both are sparse or unlaunched at the moment). The site’s brand new – you can […]
I rarely visit my blog. Sounds weird, but I usually post all my stuff through the admin interface or another blogging application and I review all comments through my email account, so really, it’s rare that I stop by my own blog. I noticed today that with the current setting of displaying the last 7 […]
Tom Heintjes, Publisher of Hogan’s Alley, writes in to remind Daily Cartoonists that they can get a free copy of Hogan’s Alley on Free Comic Book Day (that’s May 5 A.K.A. “this Saturday”). Simply email him on that day – and that day only – at this email address hoganmag@gmail.com along with a mailing address.Don’t […]
Scott Adams will have a new Dilbert collection out next month called Positive Attitude. The collection reprints cartoons that ran between June 2006 and March 2007 and will be in color.
Mark Heath will have a new Spot the Frog collection on store shelves next month. The book is entitled, It’s Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee.
Bob Weber, Jr. has launched a blog for his Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids feature.From E&P: “I get around a thousand art submissions from children each week, and I’ve always felt sad about only being able to publish two a week,” the King Features Syndicate cartoonist told E&P. “Many of the kids put terrific […]
From E&P we learn that Baldo co-creator Hector Cantu is now the editorial director of the Heritage Auction Galleries – an auction house that deals with cartoon art.
Tony Auth has come under fire for a recent cartoon depicting members of the U.S. Supreme Court wearing a Catholic bishop’s miter. The cartoon is on the topic of the high court’s recent ruling that upheld the ban on partial birth abortions. One such group is Fidelis, a Catholic-based advocacy organization as well as political […]
Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, will be honored tomorrow at the ninth annual Ken Book Awards breakfast for his book, The War Within: One More Step at a Time. Garry receives his award for “outstanding literary contributions to a better understanding of mental illness.”
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted an interview with Brendan Burford, King Feature’s new comics editor. At age 28, Brendan picks up where Jay Kennedy left off after Jay’s untimely death. TOM SPURGEON: When your promotion was announced, I think it was [King Features President] Rocky Shepard who in one of the articles indicated that […]
Not a big news item, but this brought a smile to my face. One disgruntled reader of The Capital, (Annapolis, Md.) has issued a final warning to the paper’s editor after he made some changes to the comics.And I quote the paper who quotes the soon-to-be-ex-subscriber: “In spite of the fact that someone or another […]
I received an email from Greg Hatfield of Checker Book Publishing who is announcing that they will be releasing a book collection of B.C. strips (500 total) this August entitled, GrowinGold with B.C.: A 50 Year Celebration by Johnny Hart. The cover art is an original Johnny Hart drawing that he did for the book […]
Even with B.C. being carried on by family, some papers (not a lot, mind you) are dropping the late Johnny Hart’s classic and replacing it with other features. Here is what I’ve tracked down this weekend.The Lexington Herald-Leader is going to drop B.C. and Wizard of Id and replace them with a new feature. They […]
The Aaugh blog reports that The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 is already shipping.