Donna Barstow, who I mentioned in another recent posting, has a new book out in time for Valentines day. It’s called “Love Me or Go To Hell : True Love Cartoons” and it is already in its second printing. My newest book is out now!! ( ’cause they moved it up for Valentine’s Day!) called […]
From ye ol’ E&P, Donna Barstow, who does a weekly feature called ‘Daily Special‘ will be creating a new feature called ‘Fault Lines‘ for the Los Angeles Times’s revamped Sunday Magazine called “West.” The unveiling is scheduled for February 5th.“Fault Lines” will discuss the movie industry, staying in shape, and various other topics of interest […]
This day in history: the last original daily “Peanuts” strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers. Schulz officially retired on December 14th of 1999 and passed away February 12 of 2000.
Several New Yorker cartoonists are gathering in Vail this weekend to host an event entitled “Humor on the Slopes Cartooning Festival.” The three day event is a promotional event by a local ski resort to attract more visitors and features Harry Bliss, Matt Diffee, Ed Koren, Bob Mankoff, Victoria Roberts, Jack Zeigler, and others.During the […]
Another paper is shifting comic features around with the end of the ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ promotion. The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) did a survey of 4,500 readers and immediately returned ‘Classic Peanuts’.“Classic Peanuts” is back. Preliminary results from our poll show enough reader support to reinstate the syndicated reruns of this timeless comic strip. “Classic Peanuts” […]
Clay Jones, editorial cartoonist for the Fredericksburg, has a blog courtesy of his newspaper. It appears he spends most of time talking about the cartoon he drew that day or the day before. There is no RSS feed if you want subscribe to the blog. Usually when I do this type of stuff I’m racking […]
According to Brian Anderson’s web site, his feature Dog eat Doug has been picked up by the Chicago Tribune who is replacing Calvin and Hobbes.It?s a happy start to 2006 for DeD. The Chicago Tribune replaced Calvin & Hobbes today with DeD!
With a May 19 release date, Michael Fry and T. Lewis’s movie adaptation of their strip ‘Over the Hedge’ will be going up against stiff competition as “The Da Vinci Code” opens that same weekend. “The Da Vinci Code” is starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Regarding opening up against Da Vinci Code:I […]
Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnatti Enquirer and cartoonist for Zits, has started a blog. The “BorgBlog” as it is titled contains images taken from his sketchbook. Ten years into my professional career, a writer friend introduced me to a different concept of an artist?s sketchbook. In her journal she kept the most random […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel becomes the third major newspaper to run with TokyoPop a manga stlye comic strip.They’re the characters in a comic strip – TokyoPop – that will run Sundays starting Jan. 8 in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It will alternate between “Peach Fuzz,” running for 24 straight weeks, and “Van Von Hunter,” for […]
I mentioned this earlier back in December, but the NYT has a much lengthier posting (scroll down) about original MAD magazine artwork up on the auction block.The last original artwork from the archives of MAD Magazine is to be auctioned in 2006, starting with a Jan. 21 sale at Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers in Dallas. […]
Dana Summer’s feature “Bound & Gagged” has replaced “Calvin and Hobbes” on the funny pages at the The Jackson Citizen Patriot (Michigan).The newspaper surveyed readers about three comics — Bliss, The Flying McCoys, and Bound & Gagged — and the results were mixed, with no clear winner across age categories. But Bound & Gagged seemed […]
Baby Blues will be on a trial run at the Montreal Gazette. If you like Baby Blues, you’ll probably see it assume a place in our comics lineup, which is already one of the most comprehensive in Canada. At the end of the test period, we’ll put another strip in that bottom right-hand corner of […]
Oh, that we always received such respect. Clearly, the comics are a powerful medium for talking about the human experience. They should be required reading for painters who have forgotten that storytelling matters. While painters have been turning art inside out, manufacturing one style after another, Johnston has worked the old-fashioned way, with good drawing […]
FYI, I won’t be updating the Daily Cartoonist over the New Years holiday weekend. Be safe and enjoy the weekend.Alan Gardner Daily Cartoonist Editor