Yesterday I received an email from Dominic Bonacci, one of the planners for the upcoming Comics Symposium sponsored by the Lakeland Community College asking for my opinion on why there is a lack of media coverage of comic strip industry. With his permission, I’ve posted his email below along with his questions. I’ve inserted my […]
Ever wonder what the public thinks when a feature disappears from their paper and they don’t know why? The Salt Lake Tribune received quite a few letters complaining when Boondocks disappeared from the comics page – not knowing that it would someday return. Several thought the Tribune – a more liberal paper – had finally […]
The Capital, Annapolis, Md is dropping Cathy and rolling the dice with Pearls Before Swine.I know you’re probably wondering why an editor who bungled a change in the TV guide would be stupid enough to try this stunt. But this time we’re asking for reader input before making the change permanent. The requests for “Pearls […]
The Post-Gazette has mentioned that later this year they will be polling their subscribers asking which features are worthy to stay and which ones have lost favor. The last time the paper surveyed their readers they received nearly 11,000 replies.The Post-Gazette is also taking Aaron McGruder’s hiatus as an excuse to roll out some new […]
The Houston Chronicle has announced that they are adding two new features to their line up. F Minus, which launched just this month. F Minus is created by Tony Carrillo and takes the place of Boondocks. Kyrie O’Connor, deputy managing editor for features, did not say what would become of F Minus when Boondocks returns. […]
If you often scratch your head and wonder what the fuss is about about Manga, the Ledger (FL) has an interesting story about how teens are not only devouring these japanese comics, but also creating their own. Knight said the manga on which she bases most of her drawings is her favorite, “Host Club.” In […]
Paul Gilligan, is contemplating moving to Hawaii or at least spending some serious time there. His feature “Pooch Cafe” was also picked up by the Honolulu Star Bulletin. The two events aren’t directly linked.Our newest Sunday comics section contributor, Paul Gilligan of “Pooch Café,” actually stopped by a couple of months ago, during a visit […]
Slightly Off-topic. It’s been rumored for quite sometime, then production started, now a release date of July 27, 2007 has been set for the full length animation movie of The Simpsons.A 25 second trailer has been showing in theaters before Ice Age 2.I’ll link to the trailer should it appear online.UPDATE: Looks like it’s more […]
First read on Andertoons, the Garfield sequel movie trailer has been posted.This second movie keeps Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Garfield, Jon Arbuckle and Liz Wilson, D.V.M. respectively.
Mike Peters is one of a handful of people on a steering committee to create a media hall of fame to honor local media personalities. The project will be formally announced in June. Mike is originally from St. Louis.
A group of rabid Bush haters have put together an April fools joke site in which they praise the president. Artists include: Mikhaela Reid, Ted Rall, Jim Siergey, Elena Steier, Kirk Anderson, m.e. cohen, Scott Bateman and Ed Hall.The funny thing is… even when they try, they can’t do a positive cartoon on Bush – […]
Dick Locher will be taking over both the art and writing for the Dick Tracy comic strip according to E&P. Dick took over the writing temporarily after the death of Michael Kilian back in October, but the change has been made permanent. Dick will also continue his editorial cartooning.Also reported by E&P is Dick will […]
Aaron McGruder is putting the final touches on the season one DVD of Boondocks according to USA Today. “It’s kind of surreal when you are doing it,” he says. “I always wanted the TV show when I created the idea, and I guess DVDs are an inevitability for that now, and a very good one.”The […]
The Hawaii Publishers Association’s Pa’i Awards were announced recently and Dick Adair won both first and second place for editorial cartooning. Third place went to the Honolulu Weekly, an alternative weeky.
Over on Movies Online is a post about how creatively bankrupt Hollywood has become and the new trend for movie markers is to take comic strips and make them into movies. That’s probably not very revealing – it’s happened several times before, but at the end of the article the writer lists some of the […]