Ted Slampyak, the artist behind Little Orphan Annie, has posted a review of his drawing process. The system I show won’t work for everyone. It may not even work for anyone, except that it works for me. Other comics artists use other systems — maybe some of them will comment here on theirs — but […]

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will open up the ToonSeum Gallery this October that will feature exhibits of cartoon art from comic books, comic strips, illustrations, editorial cartooning and animation. The gallery’s first exhibit is entitled “From Illustration to Animation: Picture Books Come Alive Through the Art of Animation” and opens up in October of […]

I missed this one. Matt Janz, creator of Out of the Gene Pool was last week’s Washington Post’s Meet the Comics Pages online chat guest. The transcript is still available online.

From Universal Press Syndicate comes news that GoComics will be releasing the first mobile phone comic book on August 20th. The comic entitled, “Thunder Road” will be delivered as a slideshow to the phone. “Thunder Road” is created by Sean Demory and drawn by Steven Sanders and is a “post-apocalyptic, diesel punk action adventure” – […]

From Mike Rhode comes news that the Washington Examiner has dropped all of their comics and replaced them with puzzles. Over the years, they went from two full pages, to one half page and now to none. They invite comments on their website. Perhaps they’ll take a cue from the L.A. Post-Telegram as well as […]

Mark Tatulli’s wordless comic feature Lio is an easy sell in Asia. According to a press release from Universal Press Syndicate, Lio can be found in every major English language newspaper in Asia including the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, the Straits Time in Singapore, the New Straits Time in Malaysia and the […]

Here’s an interesting story from The Register-Guard (Eugene OR) about 15 year-old Olivia Clingman-White who is Jan Eliot’s assistant on the Stone Soup comic. Olivia has been working with Jan for the last five years and is responsible for coloring the comic in Photoshop. She’s also been a source of inspiration for some of story […]

E&P reported that Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge will be speaking at the National Conference of Editorial Writers on September 29th. The topic of his speech? “Making the Case for an Endangered Species: Political Cartoonists.”When I wrote last week that today’s editorial cartoonists are “infatuated by their own victim status” this is an […]

Mike Lynch has posted a motivational review of Mark Tatull’s rise as a comic strip cartoonist that was first posted on The Wisenheimer. So what’s the point of all this? Well, back in ’97 I thought it was all over. I had to give up my dream out of necessity. Sales weren’t there and there […]

The Bat Segundo Show (a literary podcast) recently interviewed Opus creator Berkeley Breathed. See part 1 and part 2. I’ve not listened to these so I have no idea what the content would be, but presumably it’s about Berkeley’s new book.Thanks Mike Rhode for the heads up.

The Union of Concerned Scientists who sponsor the annual “American Science Idol” cartoon contest has announced this year’s winner. Jesse Springer of Eugene Oregon.Finalists (which will be featured in the calendar) include Matt Bors, Brian Orr, Matthew Shultz, Jen Sorensen, Tim White, Phil Witte, and Alejandro Yegros.Judges included Garry Trudeau, Tom Toles, and Dave Coverly. […]

Ventura County Star editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg writes in to share news that his section of the paper’s web site has been updated to include a blog, better bio, space for larger images, and shorter URL. He mentions that he’s also started adding animations, sketches and commentary on the blog as well. The new URL […]

Bill Kitchen, the former Miami Herald cartoonist, has died at the age of 78 of pancreatic cancer. Bill began working for the Herald in 1960 and officially retired in 1985 but continued to freelance to the paper until 2000. The Herald reports that in the 1960s, Bill was so popular that if he took a […]

ComicDC blogger Mike Rhode writes in to alert Daily Cartoonists that Chan Lowe, editorial cartoonist for the Sun-Sentinel, has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. Chan is working with an animator who works in the Marketing Special Sections Department of the paper.

The St. Petersburg Times has a write up on John Graziano who draws the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! feature. First drawn nearly 90 years ago by Robert L. Ripley, the illustrations have a distinct mission: Bring the unusual to people. “Everybody is always curious about something out of the ordinary or different than what […]