After receiving 72% of the vote, Brian Crane’s Pickles has earned a spot in the Daily News-Record funny pages. Pickle’s run begins on Monday.With the untimely death of Doug Marlette, papers are now having to replace his strip Kudzu. The Winston Salem Journal is kicking off their guest comic rotation with Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before […]
Over on John Hambrock’s blog, he recounts his long personal journey to syndication. The 15th anniversary of my comic strip journey is coming up in a few weeks. I remember the day the bug bit me. The year was 1992, although it doesnâ??t seem that long ago. For several years during my employment with the […]
KAL’s Digital Dubya has hit YouTube. Hat tip: Mike Rhode
Robb Armstrong, creator of Jump Start, recently spoke to La Follette High School in Madison WI. Robb, who speaks to over 5,000 students a year, came to speak to speak about overcoming challenges and starting your life track early.
Editorial cartoonist Neal Obermeyer has written an extensive post regarding a recent “Yahtzee” (multiple cartoonists draw very similar cartoons). This Yahtzee deals with the how Daryl Cagle (MSNBC.com) and Jeff Koterba (Omaha World-Herald) handled the topic of Barry Bonds.Hat tip: Daryl Cagle
Starting this week through August 25th, Bil and Jeff Keane’s Family Circus (dailies and Sundays) will be re-running favorite vacation panels from the last 30 years as the two work ahead of deadline. The strips will appear as they did when they were first printed with slight modifications to bring them up to the 21st […]
According to Ted Rall’s blog, Ted will be making an appearance at the Ace of Clubs on Monday August 6th during Lizz Winsteads act. Lizz is a comedian and ex-Air America Radio personality. She does a two-part act – the first being “a bunch of satirical sketches” and the second a guest segment of which […]
A new comic exhibit entitled “Comic Relief” is opening up in Sioux Falls (SD) and will feature cartoon art from Lynn Johnston, Mort Walker, Gary McCoy, Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Marcus Hamilton, Stan Goldberg, Dan Piraro, Hy Eisman, and Tom Richmond. The show is organized by Ken Alvine – a member of the National Cartoonist […]
Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker will be appearing regularly on the Riz Khan show where he will select a couple of cartoons to talk about. The Khan show is part of the Aljazeera English network. Matt’s first appearance is now on YouTube (Matt’s segment starts about 2 minute into the video below). Cartoons featured in […]
San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will hold its fourth annual fund-raiser on September 15th at Pixar Animation Studios. Funds benefit the museum. See their webs site for details
Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, has issued a statement through Universal Press stating that contrary to rumors that are still in circulation, she will not be retiring this fall and will be continuing her strip in “hybrid” fashion. Dear Editor: Never did I suspect it would come to this. I have […]
Despite high praise for cartoonists at this year’s AAEC convention, Helen Thomas – the 87 year old White House Correspondent for UPI wasn’t that impressed with Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury last week (see toon) that joked that she had been a correspondent at the White House since the Truman administration and that some say she was […]
A couple of pick ups to report. The Hartford Courant has picked up Rich Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties as their trial ‘toon for the month of August.Norm Feuti reports that his feature, Retail has been picked up by the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily.
Garfield Gets Real is the new direct-to-video Garfield movie set for release this fall. The movie will be all CGI.
For all those editorial cartoonists who are now cramming to learn Flash for better Pulitzer positioning next year may want to check out this little flash animation below as a fun little diversion. Enjoy.Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantARTUPDATE: Aaron Taylor writes in to point us to part two of the Animator vs. Animation […]