The Capital (Annapolis, Md) will be trying out six new strips: Pearls Before Swine, Non Sequitur, Pickles, Brevity, Frazz, and Candorville. The contest begins January 21. The voting will be via paper ballot (favored method for the aged), online and email ballots (favored by the younger crowd). We’ll see which method yields the winning feature.
Wee Pals cartoonist Morrie Turner is scheduled to speak at Alfred University (Alfred NY) on February 3rd during their second annual Drawn to Diversity program. The program was created to delve into equality and diversity in art and media. This year’s program specifically looks at the funny pages.The event is free to the public.
The Courier & Press has decided not to drop Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Filmore or Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury after a two week period to collect reader input. The result was “readers of the Viewpoint page have let us know in no uncertain terms that they want us to continue running the “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore” comic […]
From the Toledo Free Press comes word that a new strip Biff and Riley will be adding to the line up at the end of this month. The new local comic strip is by Toledoan Jeff Payden and features two sibling dogs. Payden described the main characters, two dogs, as “two brothers from the same […]
I’m beginning to think that Stephan Pastis is the most written about cartoonist of 2006 and is setting himself up for a repeat in 2007. Anyway, here’s an interview with him from the Concord Monitor. They are now running Pearls Before Swine in the place of Foxtrot.From the interview: What do you think it is […]
Michael Vance, curator of the Oklahoma Cartoonists Museum writes in to alert us about a new short film on YouTube about the museum. I’ve mentioned the Oklahoma Cartoonists Museum before back in March when they received over 2000 comic books, magazines and comics strips for their collection as well as in October when they had […]
The Chicago Sun passed a milestone this last weekend as it celebrates 60 years running Milton Caniff’s Steve Canyon. There is some great Caniff history in this article. If you’re a comic history buff, make sure you read this article.Hat tip to The Comics Journal
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 […]