FoxTrot PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend has announced that he’s self-published three FoxTrot collections through the Apple iBook Store using Apple’s free iBooks Author software. Each book is $1.99 and contains about 100 strips.From his website: I?m calling them FoxTrot Pad Packs, because I like the metaphor of collectable cards and how you build up your […]
The Archivist over at the King Features blog has posted an interesting graphic/timeline created by Dik Browne that highlights the rise of his client list from launch (1954) to 1000 papers (1984).
Actually, I’ve been trying to keep it down to 750 words lately.Today, even 20 seems futile.Well done, Darrin.
Anne Hambrock has started up a Kickstarter Project to help fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She tells me that a lot of her donors and sponsors have seen funding cuts and are unable to contribute this year. This new fundraiser will start April 19 and run through May 22. The goal is […]
Matt Wuerker was not the only comic-related Pulitzer winner yesterday. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich, former writer of the comic strip Brenda Starr, won the big prize for commentary. She wrote for the strip from 1985 until the feature retired on January 2, 2011. From the Chicago Tribune: With topics ranging from the giant Marilyn […]
The Team Cul de Sac art will be auctioned off on May 27 and a few of the pieces are now on “display” on the Heritage Auction’s website. So far art on display include Cathy Guisewite, Mort Walker, Ron Ferdinand, Sergio Aragones, Karl Kesel, and Don Rosa with more to be added soon. Also on […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall is auctioning off 12 of his cartoon originals with all the proceeds going to the Sebastian Babin Education Fund. The fund was set up to raise money for Rex Babin’s son after Rex passed away last March. All the proceeds from this auction will be donated to a trust fund to […]
Matt Wuerker has won the Pulitzer Prize and the first one within his publication to do so. Here’s a round up of the more pertinent news stories surrounding his win.From Politico Harris said Wuerker’s award is “truly one for the good guys.” “I don’t think there is any better example of nice guys finishing first […]
I hadn’t really thought about this issue until Tak Bui brought it up today on PC and Pixel.Opticians use the term “tromboning” to describe a person moving their reading material back and forth, looking for the point at which their aging eyes will focus on it. And the older I get, the more tromboning I […]
Glenn Fleishman writes a wonderful profile of Richard Thompson, his battle with Parkinsons Disease and the lastest news of hiring Stacy Curtis to do the inking. Thompson is the creator of Cul de Sac, a delightful daily comic strip that features the Otterloop family: Alice, Petey, Mom (Madeline), and Dad (Peter). There are dozens of […]
The auction of original art from Team Cul de Sac is now online and happening through June 10. There is some truly collectible work here as well as some fun stuff, and it benefits Parkinson’s Research in the name of a great cartoonist, a friend of the blog and a valued friend of the blogger.Have […]
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist for Politico, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Matt was a finalist in 2009 and 2010 for the Pulitzer and a past recipient of Herblock Prize.Judges note his award was given “for his consistently fresh, funny cartoons, especially memorable for lampooning the partisan conflict that engulfed Washington.”Finalists this […]
Just a reminder that today the Pulitzer Prize will me announced for the category of editorial cartooning. Announcement will be made at 3:00 EST. I’ll have the winner posted here as soon as it’s made available.
The New York Times has a fascinating story about a major rift in the Archie Comics leadership over the future of the property. At this, the last of the privately run Mom-and-Pop comic book dynasties, Ms. Silberkleit, 59, the daughter-in-law of a company founder, Louis H. Silberkleit, is deadlocked in a court battle for control […]
Deflocked takes on one of the oddities of the current political circus.The USDA provides subsidies to schools for lunch programs, and has decided that, in order to qualify for assistance from taxpayers, schools should not add to the health problems of our nation’s children by serving them fatty, sugary, sodium-laden foods.This has been met with […]