Rudy Park cartoonists Theron Heir (writer) and Darrin Bell (artist) have written one of their strips’ most endearing characters, Mort Park, out of the strip to make a political statement against Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld was a frequent “visitor” to the strip and had heated exchanges with Mort. In the end, Mort died of a heart […]
Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus, creators of Girls and Sports were interviewed in the Journal Gazette and Times-Courier.Mallard Filmore creator Bruce Tinsley gets a write up in the sports pages of the Lexington Herald-Leader due to his loyalty to the University of Kentucky Cats.
Blogging will be light today. I’ve got Martin Luther King, Jr. day off and will be doing some family activities. Check back later this afternoon for updates.-Alan
Brian Anderson, creator of Dog Eat Doug writes in to announce that he’s signed a two-book book deal with Roaring Brook Press to produce two books. The first book is entitled, “Nighty Night, Sleepy Sleep” and will based on his comic strip and will be available in the fall of 2008. The second book hasn’t […]
Scott Kurtz is hoping to save comics and is openly soliciting help from Bill Amend to make a 1989 statement made by Bill Watterson come true – that comics can be improved with (and without) the syndicate’s cooperation. In essence, Scott is proposing that someone from the established cartooning industry (Bill Amend) can get together […]
Stacy Curtis, the ousted editorial cartoonist – now children’s book illustrator has started up a blog with Wes Hargis (artist for the former Franklin Fibbs/Little Fibbs feature) and Ted Dawson, (creator of former Spooner feature). The blog, entitled “Three Men in a Tub,” showcases sketches and other projects that the three are involved in.
From E&P comes news that Hector Cantu, the writer for the comic feature Baldo, will speak at Purdue University on January 15th, Martin Luther King Day. His speach is entitled “Lowriders, Abuelitas, and Chica Power! Fighting for a Voice on the Funny Pages.”
Norm Feuti’s Retail character “Cooper” has started a blog. The blog appears to be corresponding to the story-line of the strip so that Retail fans can get an additional insight into the story-line – kind of like a DVD’s extra features. Launched Saturday, January 6th, it already has a several comments for each day’s blog […]
Over on the ComicsReporter.com, Tom Spurgeon received an email from someone in Queens that is reporting that the NY Daily News dropped 1/4 of their comic strips – which amounted to about 5 strips and a puzzle. If the report is true, the affected comics are: Cathy, Agnes, Peanuts Classics, Pooch Cafe, and Girls and […]
E&P’s Dave Astor has talked to Lynn Johnston about her impending “retirement” from the funny pages this year and learns that the For Better or For Worse feature isn’t going away after all – but will morph into a hybrid type feature that will have both new cartoons mixed with old. As Dave describes it: […]
In continued celebration of 10 years with the Clarion-Ledger, Marshall Ramsey’s work will be on exhibit from February 17 â?? April 15, 2007 according to his blog and E&P. The exhibit will have original cartoons and Marshall mentions the possibility of a computer so that attendees can blog their experience. Check his blog for location […]
According to E&P, both Creators and Copley News Service have recently reworked their web sites. Creator’s site is certainly a major step in the right direction. They now feature RSS feeds and a section for news about their creators in the news.
Charles Brubaker writes in to alert me to efforts by Tom Tomorrow to reinstated his This Modern World feature back into the Village Voice. Instead of asking readers to write letters and e-mail to the editor (which Tom claims sometimes hurts the efforts), he created an online petition. At the time of this writing, he’s […]
Beginning this last Sunday, John Marshall, the lead artist on the classic comic Blondie, has his name credited along side of Dean Young as the feature’s creators. John has been the lead artist for Blondie since 2005 and before that was the assistant artist since 2002. The article linked above has some interesting information as […]
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has photos of Diesel Sweeties in newspapers even though the official launch isn’t until Monday. Apparently with FoxTrot leaving, R. Stevens cranked out a “special batch” of Diesel Sweeties for newspapers wanting to begin DS in FoxTrot’s vacant spot.