Industry news for the professional cartoonist
As I mentioned on Tuesday, Ann Hambrock is going the route of Kickstarter to raise money to fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Today that Kickstarter project opens for funding. Please head over and pledge.
Anne Hambrock who works on her husband’s strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has announced that she’s organized a new comic festival called the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. The project started when Carthage College Gallery Director inquired about bringing John Read’s “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” to Kenosha and Anne opted to…
A quiet end to a great comic strip, and if the last episode of Stone Soup reminds you of Calvin and Hobbes heading out for new adventures, that’s not entirely inappropriate: Jan Eliot got her break in the business — after four years of pestering the syndicates with submissions — when Bill Watterson hung up…
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Jan Eliot of “Stone Soup” joins me to talk about her wonderfully winding road to syndication and about the great comic she’s been doing for 20 years! Find out how…
Great news from Anne Hambrock, founder and organizer of the The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning: The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is THRILLED to announce that among the items we are offering in the National Cartoonists Society Foundation Benefit Auction is a RARE signed print of the last Calvin & Hobbes strip! When Bill Watterson retired…
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Well, hiatuses are good and all, but it’s time to get back to work! Welcome to the new Tall Tale Radio, with 30% more podcasty goodness and now…completely Gluten Free! …
Tall Tale Radio is back! After a seven month hiatus Tom Racine announced that he’s back behind the mike with a co-host Lucas Turnbloom, creator of Imagine This. From Tom: First off, welcome to my new Co-Host, Mr. Lucas Turnbloom! We all know Lucas from his amazing work over at ?Imagine This,? and he has…
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to GoComics and give it a listen. In this episode: Well, it’s not exactly “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish,” but it IS time for a break. After nearly six years and 197 episodes, and two previous years and 70…
Unlike many books I receive for review, I sought this one out. When I contributed to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, one of the rewards was an autographed book and I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get a autographed book collection from Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly. I would argue if there was any…
Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as…
This Ink Pen (AMS) was the first strip featured on Comic Strip of the Day, back on February 6, 2010, which you will, by a simple arithmetical process, easily discover was not 11 years ago today. However, today is the day I can get my car in for inspection and a new sticker at 8…
Today’s The Other Coast pings a particularly sweet spot for me, because I remember asking my mother about the same problem: Santa comes down chimneys and we didn’t have one. Well, we did, but it led directly into the furnace, which didn’t seem like a good entrance to the house. The background to her answer…
Ann Telnaes puts a fun spin on the hoo-hah over the latest royal baby with a cartoon about a baby who is not only American but has a lot more authority than little Goober, who is, I guess, seventh in line to the British throne, ever will. Harry and Meghan haven’t announced the name, and…
There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in. There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with … I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized…