Daryl Cagle has announced that his editorial cartoons featured on Cagle.com now have RSS feeds to notify subscribers when an editorial cartoon has been updated. As one who gets nearly all of my news via RSS feeds, this is a welcomed feature. Now if Daryl can get an RSS feed on his blog, I’ll be […]
Mikhaela Reid’s The Boiling Point is now on GoComics.Hat tip: E&P
Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post has won the Freedom of the Press award from the Anti-Defamation Legue’s Mountain States Office for his cartoons about bigotry and separation of church and state.
Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press this month. In the last 10 years, the feature has won many awards including: “Hot Comic Strip of the Year,” as named by Rolling Stone magazine; and, second place two years in a row for Best Cartoon in […]
Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos has posted a video of him sketching Baldo on YouTube. Hat Tip: E&P.
Allan Holtz, over at the Stripper’s Guide blog, spent a day going through the Los Angeles Examiner archives and found a trove of George Herriman cartoons dating 1906 (Herriman worked at the paper from 1906 to 1909). Allan spent the day making copies and is asking for readership interest in whether he posts to them […]
Salon, the online political and cultural publication, has picked up Berkeley Breathed’s Sunday-only Opus beginning yesterday. They reintroduced the feature to their readers with an e-mail interview with Berkeley who revealed such things as the Opus movie – 5 years in the making is no longer in production, how the children’s literature P.C.police reacted to […]
The 2007 Harvey Award Nominees have been announced and several newspaper cartoonists are among the nominees. Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro, is up for two awards: Best Cartoonist and a Special Award for Humor in comics. Competing in the category of Best Syndicated Strip or Panel includes Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, Mutts by Patrick McDonnell, The […]
Dan Thompson writes in with the story behind Humorous Maximus‘ temporary closure. Apparently (and allegedly) the site’s own web master copied all the ‘toons off of Humorous Maximus and started his own little site with them and then deleted all the pages from the HM site. Needless to say, Dan and fellow co-founder Jerry King […]
Despite living in the Chicago area for nearly two decades, Hal Foster’s work, Prince Valiant was never published in the area newspapers, nor any of his art work been displayed in area museums. But one 78 year-old fan has worked to create an exhibit of 50 enlarged and restored reprints that will open Monday at […]
Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse, will be in New York City tomorrow at the Book Expo signing books and then on June 10 and 11, she’ll be at the Book Expo Canada in Toronto signing books. See link above for locations and specifics on time.
The Winston-Salem Journal has a write-up on Leigh Rubin and how he comes up with his material for Rubes. A typical day for Rubin starts when he gets up and takes his dog – part Akita, part-mutt – for a walk. “That’s my good excuse to get going in the morning. Then breakfast, then shower, […]
Jeff Keane, who works on his father’s Family Circus, has been elected president of the National Cartoonist Society beginning this year through 2009. Other members of the board include Dave Coverly, Bill Hinds, Rick Kirkman and Mike Lynch.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Lederer has ruled that the original art work of Ben Wicks be returned to his family who accidently left them behind at a home they sold 15 years ago.
When Charles Brown (yeah, that’s his real name) contacted Mort Walker to see if he would autograph a historical book about Camp Chowder – the Army camp that Mort was stationed at during World War II – Mort did more than just autograph the book – he sent Charlie (yeah, he also goes by “Charlie”) […]