Michael Cavna talks to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis regarding his strip’s success and the state of comic strips.Stephan: ?We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats,“ continues Pastis, bemoaning the state of the industry. ”Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.”
Big Bird as the takeaway from Wednesday’s debate has been a predictable boon for political cartoonists. Facebook Photoshoppers were putting gags up while the debate was still in progress, and the pros weren’t far behind them.Nick Anderson riffs on one element, which is the disparity between the goal of hunting down bin Laden and the promise […]
Voice of America reports on the shift in editorial cartooning. And by shift I mean a future with no staff jobs.
Harry Bliss touches a nerve on the eve of my annual physical.Kind of funny: When I called to make the appointment, the woman at the doctor’s office pulled up my records and was trying to schedule me for next month. I said that I had a prescription that needed to be renewed now, however, and […]
Syracuse Post-Standard editorial cartoonist Frank Cammuso was one of the 115 employees told they will no longer have a job with the paper after January 31 when the paper drops to a three-time a week printing schedule on February 1. Frank has been with the paper for 23 years. He was gracious enough to answer […]
Interesting story from the Deutsche Welle about how the Belgium government is working to promote comics. The country was a comic powerhouse decades ago spawning notable cartoons like Tintin, The Smurfs, and Spirou. Today, most of the big Belgian comic book publishing houses have been bought up by multinational companies. And the country’s comic strip […]
J.D. Crowe, the editorial cartoonist for the Mobile Press-Register (AL), has a new job. Yesterday the The Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, The Huntsville Times, The Mississippi Press dropped to a three times a week printing schedule. Luckily J.D. will be able to continue drawing political cartoons, but his scope has changed a bit as he […]
Callan Berry, a student at the University of Montana, is “drawing fire” according to a report by the local NBC station. The cartoon points out the irony of mandatory sexual assault prevention classes required of all students.Callen says: “I’m a satirical artist. My point was to satirize the feeling on campus towards PETSA… which is […]
I’ve got nothing to add to today’s “Sherman’s Lagoon” except that I really enjoy the repeated assault upon suspension of disbelief, as well as Toomey’s ability to promote ecological awareness while keeping the strip constantly silly. I’ve mentioned the Bob Newhart timing factor in this strip often enough that I won’t do it again. Whoops.Note […]
Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry and former Dilbert Head of Licensing Jeanette Smith will be teaching an online course on creating great characters for comics, novels, or animation. The course, entitled “Building Character: How to Cash In On Your Characters Without Losing Your Soul” is divided into three 2-hour classes. The course begins October […]
On the Facetrack creator Bill Holbrook has released a music video featuring his character Dethany, the Corporate Goth. Bill wrote the lyrics where were set to music by Dave Ridarick, Susan Holbrook Ridarick. Performing the song are the members of the band Ol Blue (Stephen Roy Carlisle, John Johnson, David & Susan Ridarick and Andy […]
Fresh from her engagement at the fabulous Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, Hilary Price gives us a vision of Pooh that backs up the basic pun with a bit of appropriate travesty.I love Rhymes with Orange because it’s not just funny but witty, which is not the same thing. The Pooh/Poe thing works, sure, and “Eeyore” […]
At nearly 90 years old, Stan Lee is still going strong, but there was some speculation regarding his health last week after he cancelled two convention appearances. A statement released last weekend states that the iconic super-hero creator has received a pace-maker.The press release: POW! Entertainment (OTCQB: POWN) (Company), the media and entertainment company, today […]
Washington City Paper’s Alexis Hauk talks to Clayton Hanson, a legislative information editor in Washington DC, who has started posting a mashup of the AMC television series Breaking Bad and Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes. WCP: And you are a rabid Breaking Bad fan, I assume? CH: I started watching when it first came out. […]
Today’s comics page brings something of a coincidence, but the topic sure comes from two different angles.In “Heart of the City,” it’s established that Heart and her mother have been two girls, living all together, but they are all alone (ear worms inserted free!). There was an arc years ago in which Heart met her […]