With a client list of over 1000 newspapers, FoxTrot’s departure is creating a large shift in the number of features that are being picked to fill the vacancy. While I don’t have access to the syndicate’s official numbers, I have collected from google searches a snapshot of some of the changes happening across the country. […]
Corey Pandolph writes in to announce that his efforts to get 200 pre-order sales of this Barkeater Lake book has been achieved and he’s going to move ahead with printing the book. Fans of the strip can still pre-order over on his blog. The re-launch of the comic feature on his web site is January […]
A couple of weeks ago I alerted you to an eerie incident of great intrigue! One of the Garfield statues that were erected in Marion County Indiana to draw tourists to Jim Davis‘ home town/county had been decapitated and police had very few leads as to the culprit. It appears that the case has been […]
The Flying McCoys caption contest that was announced back in October has announced its winner after reviewing over 3000 entries. The winning caption ran on Saturday, December 30 and says: “By the way Jim, here’s that $50 I owe you.” Other captions have been posted on Glenn and Gary McCoy’s web site.
BTW, I’m taking the day off. No updates today. I’ve got a back-log of stories so make sure you return tomorrow!Alan
The behind the scenes events surrounding the Judge Parker creators could be worthy of their own story-line. After receiving a steady flow of complaints and inquiries in the comment section of this blog regarding the abruptly changing artwork of Judge Parker, I started to poke around to see what warranted such a strong reaction. I […]
Editorial cartoonist Justin Bilicki has started a blog. In addition to posting his finished cartoons, Justin also posts his rough sketches.Hat tip: AAEC Web site.
Several web sites are reporting that Hardin “Jack” Burnley, died last Tuesday on December 19 at the age of 95. Jack was best known for his contribution to Superman, Batman and other comic book heroes. According to E&P, Jack “did sports cartoons in the 1930s, and later drew the “Batman” comic strip and newspaper illustrations.”
The Palisaidan-Post has written a really good article on Paul Conrad (spurred on by the release of his book, I, Con: The Autobiography of Paul Conrad, Editorial Cartoonist). If you’re an editorial cartoonist, take a moment to read this article about this legend. In this article Paul talks about how he stumbled into editorial cartooning […]
Ted Rall, who contemplated suing conservative columnist/author Ann Coulter for libel after she suggested (jokingly or otherwise) that Ted had entered the Iranian Holocaust cartooning contest, has decided against launching the suit on the grounds that it would be expensive and the verdict unclear.From his blog: One needs to have two things on one’s side […]
Dan Thompson writes in to inform me that his comic strip Lost Sheep is moving from Universal Press’ GoComics.com to the humorousmaximus.com web site at the end of this month. Dan is one of the founders of Humorous Maximus along with other notables such as Jerry King.
Charles Boyce, creator of Compu-toon, will have a two month exhibit of his comic panel at the Barrington Area Arts Council Gallery in Barrington, IL. The exhibit begins January 8th and runs through February 28th.
Charles Brubaker writes in to share news that he is creating what he hopes to be an exhaustive list of syndicated comic strips complete with their start and end dates, artists, writers, syndicator, and genre. It’s quite the project. Head on over and check out the features you’re familiar with. I’m sure he’d appreciate feedback, […]
It looks like Bill Amend is using his last week of the daily version of FoxTrot to make a few statements of cartooning. Yesterday he poked fun at why a cartoonist would want to do fewer cartoons (punchline: “Whoa! Some guy in World of Warquest went from level 1 to 60 in two days!”).Today he […]
According to E&P, Roy Schneider, creator of The Humble Stumble has recorded a 12 track CD which was inspired by his comic strip. Roy has been a singer/songwriter for years. The CD will be available on Amazon in January.