Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro will be featured along with writer John Ostrander (Batman, Star Wars, Wolverine, The Kents, Apache Skies) in a panel discussion entitled “Western and Native Portrayals in Comics” in Indianapolis, IN on January 24th at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Dan was invited because of his frequent use…
Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro has announced that he’ll be posting his comic panel on his blog each day. Since he’s with King Features, he must post his feature a week behind what newspapers print, but if you’re a Bizarro fan and can’t cough up the $15/year for Daily Ink, bookmark his blog.
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro has announced that he’s getting into the trading card business. The new Bizarro trading cards feature a Bizarro cartoon and some unpublished work and the back of each cartoon is a puzzle piece that once assembled with other cards create a larger 17.5 x 11.5″ puzzle. The first release (or Series…
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, was recently in San Francisco to perform stand up at the Purple Onion. SFGate.com cobbled together this video of an interview with pieces of his stand up. Enjoy.
Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro, will be doing standup comedy on February 22 along with Johnny Steele at San Francisco’s Purple Onion. Their performance is called “Two Guys With Hats.” In other Piraro news, he’s evacuated his myspace blog and opened up a new over on blogger/blogspot.
Over on the Hogan’s Alley discusssion board is a brief interview with Dan Piraro and Dave Coverly regarding their inclusion into Parade Magazine. It appears that they were sought out by the magazine and that their work will appear on a not-set-but-probably-every-other-week schedule.
Over at Cecil Vortex’s blog, he has an interesting interview with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro. CV: I understand that to syndicate a cartoon, you first need to stockpile a large number of comics. Was that a challenge for you? DP: Early on it was very hard. See, on the one hand, I really love starting…
Dan Piraro gets a write-up in The Suburban (Quebec) about his feature Bizarro. Some of the material covered includes: life as a syndicated cartoonist, his interest in environmental and animal rights, and religion.
p>Reuben Award finalists Bill Amend, Dave Coverly, and Dan Piraro are the featured guest on Washington Post’s Meet the funny pages online chat tomorrow. Questions can be submitted anytime before and during the chat session which begins on 1 p.m. EST.
Last month I told you that Dan Piraro was involved with an auction to help raise money for an animal sanctuary in upper-state New York and that other cartoonists’ work were also on the auction block. From Dan I learn that some of the other cartoonists’ work will include: Garry Trudeau, Patrick McDonnell, Carol Lay,…
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,…
The Evening Times (British paper) has a story on Kieran Meehan who is up for a Reuben award in the newspaper panels category. From the Honolulu Advertiser comes news that Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro will be Hawaii next week on April 10 to speak on cartooning and veganism. Visit the link above for times.
Dan Piraro is asking cartoonists to help raise money for an animal sanctuary in upstate New York by auctioning off cartoon originals. The last time a cartoon original auction was held for the sanctuary was in 2004 and according to Dan, “it made more money than any of our other fundraising events and the cartoon…
Mike Lynch links to a couple o’ interviews with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro on the topic of veganism and cartooning.
Dan Piraro’s presentation that he did at Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2006 has been YouTubed. It’s entertaining. Not quite enough to make me give up the filet mignon, but it was worth the 5 minutes of my time. He also talks of global warming and other issues.