Last March I told you about Brad Gilchrist and Peter Menice’s new comic strip The Green House which they are launching on Earth Day (this Sunday). The strip is going the route of self-syndication. Greener living is the long-term goal of Gilchrist and Menice, who are marketing their comics through Internet subscriptions and through self-syndication […]
Doug Marlette recently spoke at the Virginia Commonwealth University on the topic of editorial cartooning.From the article: An example of one of his most influential cartoons was one from 1986 that featured a crying eagle looking up at the dark sky, in response to that year’s NASA space shuttle explosion. The cartoonist said he designed […]
Greg Evans, who does the Luann comic, will be on hand this Saturday to draw sketches of from his comic for those who are donating blood during a blood drive at Valley Blood Services – something he’s done for 20 years now. Also on hand will be Doreen Dotson, the creator of Outskirtz.Greg is volunteering […]
State University of New York College at Brockport editorial cartoonist Kory Merritt has been awarded this year’s AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist.As the designated winner, he’ll receive a free trip to this year’s AAEC convention in Washington D.C.First Runner-up for the award was Sam Ayres, of Yale University, and Nathan Rohde, […]
Walt Handelsman, editorial cartoonist for Newsday is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning – his second such prize (the first was with the Times-Picayune in 1997). The Pulitzer committee said Handelsman’s was worthy of the high prize because of “his stark, sophisticated cartoons and his impressive use of zany animation.”This seemed to the […]
Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id died yesterday at the age of 86 in Lynchburg Va. His death was preceded only by 8 days of Johnny Hart, the other creator of Wizard of Id. “Id” will be continued by his son, Jeff, who has been working on the feature since 1997.
A new Rose is Rose collection is due out this month entitled The Enchanted Rose. This is the second book collection since Don Wimmer began contributing to Pat Brady’s comic feature. The book retails for $12.95, but you can buy it at amazon.com for about $10.36 and support his site.
Mike Lester, editorial cartoonist for the Rome News-Tribune, has won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism.Regarding his entry, the judges note: “We felt Mike Lester’s editorial cartoons for the Rome News-Tribune showed a unique, breezy and consistent style. Each panel was strong and wry while commenting on important […]
Prickly City creator Scott Stantis will be a featured speaker on First Amendment protection for media on May 4th in Kansas City. The forum is part of the 20th Media and Law Seminar.
King Features is set to launch a new comic feature on May 6th called My Cage – a manga-influenced strip by Melissa DeJesus (artist) and Ed Power (writer). From the press release: The strip’s name is a parody of the monolithic “My Space” social networking site and is comprised of vignettes that explore the trials […]
Pat Bagley, the editorial cartoonist with the Salt Lake Tribune, recently spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah where he spoke about the unique, and ripe culture for cartooning that Utah provides. Bush has “been good for me because he’s radicalized me,” Bagley said. “I used to be kind of […]
According to E&P, Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis will be the next guest on Bob Andelman’s “Fridays with Mr. Media” blog. The topic for the day will be “the unique pressures on African-American cartoonists” and last’s month’s death of King Editor in Chief Jay Kennedy.” You can check out the blog by going to mrmedia.com
Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, Outland, and Opus is coming out with a new children’s book called Mars Needs Moms and will be promoting the book at various locations around the country. Here are the dates and times so far:Friday, May 4th, 7pm, Willow Book & Caf, 279 Great Road, Acton, MA 01720Saturday, May […]
Bill Griffith uses his Zippy the Pinhead comic to pay tribute to Jay Kennedy who died last month while vacationing in Costa Rica.On a Zippy related note, Bill will be speaking at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus according to E&P. His topic: “Up from the Underground with Zippy: 38 Years and Still Climbing.”
I enjoyed this article by Stew Rieckman, executive editor of The Northwestern (Oshkosh WI), who related his readership’s response after he gave a local cartoonist a 30 day trial run on the funny pages – more or less to be a nice guy. His readership became verbally abusive when the new strip took Crankshaft’s place. […]