Johnny Hart, age 76, has died Saturday from a stroke at his drawing board in Nineveh, NY. Johnny is the creator of B.C. and The Wizard of Id. From an Washington Post story about Johnny’s history: John Lewis Hart, a firefighter’s son, was born Feb. 18, 1931, in Endicott, N.Y. As a child, he said […]
Darrin Bell and Matt Richtel have redesigned their Rudy Park web site and have added a new feature called “Ask Sadie” (the octogenarian character). From E&P we learn that the two have received about 40 questions so far. The “Rudy Park” writer joked that Sadie, because of her “rigid schedule,” would “prefer if people writing […]
Milton Caniff seems to be the big rage this year – and deservedly so. It was his collection that jump-started the OSU Cartoon Research Library that is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary and will focus on Milton this October during the Festival of Cartoon Art, R.C. Harvey is writing Milton’s biography, and Humorous Maximus received permission […]
The Des Moines Register’s Brian Duffy appears in a video on the paper’s web site about how he creates his cartoons. It runs a couple of minutes, but there are some cool things to learn. The video states that Brian’s cartoons appear on the front page. And you’ll see Brian working with a crow-quill pen […]
The Jewish Exponent covered a recent speaking engagement with Tony Auth, the editorial cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tony shared some of his work from his 30 year career with the Inquirer and since he was speaking at a Jewish gathering, he talked about some of the controversies that have been raised due to his […]
The Jewish Exponent ran an article yesterday about the success of Terry and Patty Laban’s comic feature, Edge City. Edge City was not conceived as a Jewish comic feature, but a simple comic about young families, but in 2002 (the feature started in 2000) after noticing that no other comic features celebrated Jewish holidays, they […]
Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks animated TV show has won a Peabody Award for his “Return of the King” installment that depicted Martin Luther King, Jr, reawakening to today’s cultural society of gangsta rap and the war on terror.The awards will be presented on June 4th in New York City.
It looks like The Journal News editorial cartoonist Matt Davies is scheduled to appear on Minnesota Public radio to discuss the challenges of covering the war in editorial cartooning. Also slated during the segment will be Tim Kreider, an alternative weekly editorial cartoonist out of Baltimore.The segment will air during Midmorning about 10:06 a.m. CST
Farley creator Phil Frank will be lecturing at a San Francisco Museum and Historical Society (SFMHS) function on the 10th of April. He’ll be talking about his “fascinating relationships with five administrations of SF mayors and Bay Area politics” as well as auctioning off some of his originals to raise money for the museum. He’ll […]
Two Winsor McCay books are due out this summer. The first is “The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume One” (look for it on May 1) and the latter is a softcover edition of “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays” (June 1). Both books are published by Checker Book Publishing Group.The Little Nemo edition […]
Earlier this week, I told you that Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro, will be speaking in Hawaii next week. I’ve found other dates and times for his speaking engagements. This last Sunday he was in Florida. Check links below for ticket information.Apr. 3, 2007, 7:30 p.m.: New College of Florida, Sarasota, College Hall Apr. 10, 2007, […]
Jan Eliot, creator of Stone Soup has a collection of her work on display at the Opus6ix Fine Art Gallery in Eugene Oregon – her home town. The exhibit runs from March 31st through April 29th. This Saturday, on the 6th, there will be an artistic reception and then later on the 28th a book […]
The Denver Post editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe has won this year’s Fischetti Award. Receiving honorable mention are Clay Bennett of the Christian Science Monitor and Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The three will attend the awards ceremony in Chicago on April 30. While in Chicago, the three will participate in a panel discussion, […]
Steve Moore, creator of In The Bleachers, and co-creator and co-executive producer of the hit animation movie Open Season appears on a promotional video over on Amazon.com about his roll in the creation of the movie. If you haven’t seen Open Season, it’s quite entertaining. My kids laughed through the whole flick.You can purchase your […]
Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows, has hinted that he is in negotiations to create an animated television show based on Liberty Meadows but aimed at an adult audience with a PG-13 or R rating. No other details were mentioned, “because I don’t want to jinx it,” said Frank.In that same story, Frank talks about […]