There’s a great article in the McGill Tribune about the great potential the cartoon has for motivating change in society and they use Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury as an example of a cartoon that helped end a racial law in Florida back in the mid-1980s. Legally speaking, racial segregation in the United States is an issue […]
After posting an open letter inviting FoxTrot creator Bill Amend into saving the comic strip industry, it appears that Scott Kurtz has been talking at least one other cartoonist – Jimmy Johnson, creator of Arlo and Janis. I’ve been having a conversation lately with a young cartoonist named Scott Kurtz. Scott is young (compared to […]
Charles Boyce is being honored with an exhibit of his feature, Compu-Toon in Barrington, IL. He was interviewed by the Daily Herald about that event.
Corey Pandolph writes in to announce that his feature, Barkeater Lake, that he removed from comics.com after a three year run, has a new web site. The site offers the updated daily strip, a membership for fans to help support the site and Corey’s strip as well as a place to purchase the first Barkeater […]
Andrew Feinstein of Girls & Sports writes in to tell me that the second G&S animated cartoon has been posted to the web. The first was posted on YouTube back in October.He and Justin Borus will also be in Denver this Thursday at the Tattered Cover Book Store to plug their book. They will also […]
Only one paper making major changes to their line-up that I can find. The Journal Register (Medina NV) has dropped FoxTrot, Rugrats and Cats With Hands in favor of Sandra Bell-Lundy’s Between Friends, Allison Barrows’ Preteena and Mike Peters’ Mother Goose AND GRIMM. UPDATE: I told you last week about the Hamilton Spectator who went […]
Last Friday, E&P senior editor Dave Astor, posted a column in which he regards today’s editorial cartoonists are in a “golden age” yet at the same time in a “sad era” due to the dwindling number of professional cartoonists. The golden age is due to the ability to use color, animation and computer-aid enhancements. He […]
Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist for MSN.com, wrote a column on a practice used by the New York Times (and other publications) of removing the cartoonists’ names and publication of record when they reprint the cartoon. Most times they credit the cartoonist and his/her employing newspaper, but the New York Times, at least when dealing with […]
There’s an interesting article over at the San Francisco Examiner about individuals who are set to collect vintage comic strips with the hope of getting them reprinted in a collection. From the article, it appears that many of these collectors are fanatics who have spent a great deal of money to grow their collection. At […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is still trying to find a replacement for FoxTrot. These last two weeks they’ve been runnning Mark Tatulli’s Lio in tryout mode, but as the editor explains, “Most of the feedback I received was negative.” So Lio is out and Rich Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties is in. The Courier-Journal has completed their […]
For those in the Lincoln Nebraska area, there is an exhibit beginning on February 9 at University of Nebraska-Lincoln will feature art from Chris Ware, Enrique Chagoya, Jon E. Gierlich and S. Clay Wilson, Red Grooms and Krazy Kat creator George Herriman.The focus of the exhibit is about the relationship between comic art and high […]
E&P is reporting that the “Cartoonists Take Up Smoking” exhibit has been extended until March 31 of this year. The exhibit is at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Back in December, Amy Lago, comics editor at Washington Post Writers Group, blogged about the quirkiness of using off-color words in comics. Fearing that many interpreted her comments as being anti-dicey language, she wrote another blog post regarding the matter. Just last week, there was dissension on the appropriateness of the word “ass” in Doonesbury […]
Austin-American Statesman editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent has been named one of the 10 coolest creative people in Austin Texas by the Austin Monthly magazine this last December.
Darrin Bell talks about a different approach taken by the Hamilton Spectator to the traditional comics poll – taking samples into a dark bar (or comedy club) and asking patrons whether they should be added to their comics page. The features under consideration by a bunch of randomly selected, slightly inebriated, who even knows if […]