I’ve mentioned it before that Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog is the official mascot for next week’s 3rd annual National Robotics Week April 7-15.King Features Syndicate has posted an interview about Jonathan’s involvement with the organization and the use of his feature characters for next week.Q. What inspired you to create a storyline based […]
A public memorial will be held to honor the Sacramento Bee’s late editorial cartoonist Rex Babin who passed away on March 30 at the age of 49 after a year-long battle with cancer. The memorial service will include editorial cartoonists Joel Pett (Lexington Herald-Leader) and Jack Ohman (Portland Oregonian) as speakers. The event will be […]
The Hamilton Community News has profiled Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Mike Cope.“When I was a kid, I remember always seeing cartoons in Reader’s Digest Canada,” Cope said. “The magazine is freelance-based. You’re up against a lot of competition, so when you get in there on your first try, it’s pretty cool and that inspires you […]
Students at the University of Texas have started an online petition hoping to support the reinstatement of the campus paper’s cartoonist Stephanie Eisner who was fired after the paper ran her cartoon commenting on the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. She later apologized as did the paper. It should be noted […]
Brad Guiger has announced on his blog that he is making the full-time leap in to his webcomic Evil Inc. by taking a buyout from the Philadelphia Daily News where he has worked for 14 years. From his blog:A lot of people have asked me if I’m scared about leaving the regular paycheck I was […]
Okay, here is Lucas Turnbloom’s strip “Imagine This” for today:… and here is the little summary of the strip’s premise that runs on the GoComics site:Some adults wistfully wonder what became of the imaginary friends of their childhood. Not Darin. His are sitting on the couch, too-constant companions sharing every strange moment of his cheerfully […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and legendary editorial cartoonist Herbert Block (“Herblock”) were named by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in a list of “the 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” The full list is the who’s-who of A-list journalists and writers.
Mark Waid, a former Editor-In-Chief of BOOM! Studios, crunches the numbers to print and distribute your comic to comic book stores. Probably not a big revelation to this audience but interesting nonetheless. So…Diamond. Typically, a non-Premier publisher sells its wares to Diamond at 40-45% of cover price. Let?s say 40%. You?re one of those publishers. […]
This year’s Eisner Award Nominees have been posted. They are as follows:Best Short Story“A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture,” by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #12 (Drawn & Quarterly)“Harvest of Fear,” by Jim Woodring, in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #17 (Bongo) “The Seventh,” by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: […]
I don’t know the nature of the treatments Richard Thompson was recently undergoing, but one of the side effects evidently was the ability to see into the near future, or possibly the far distant past or perhaps to eavesdrop on editorial meetings at Nature Magazine.Whatever the case, he is back at the helm of Cul […]
Anne Hambrock:Day 1 – Broke leg in two places. Thought it was a sprain so drove stickshift car to school anyway. Afterwards retreated to bed with ice and an ace bandage and waited for my husband to whisk himself back from Indiana to help me. A full description of that day is in my previous […]
An education fund has been set up for Rex Babin’s son through Bank of America and McClatchy Employees Credit Union. From the AAEC:There are now two ways to donate to the “Sebastian Babin Education Fund.” One account has been set up at the Bank of America, 555 Capitol Ave., Sacramento, 95814. Individuals wishing to contribute, […]
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond gives a play by play of using the new MAD Magazine iPad app. As usual, when Tom gives a review of a product, it’s quite detailed.
Keith Knight, in (Th)ink, brings up what seems like an obvious contradiction. Or paradox. Or simple case of hypocrisy. Joel Pett elaborates on the theme, taking it out of the courtroom and into the streets, or, at least, onto the steps of the courthouse.Most commentators seemed to have locked on to the broccoli thing, with […]
Michael Heaton of The Plain Dealer interviews Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the 40 year anniversary of his feature.Is there one story line that stands out in your mind? That would be “Lisa’s Story.” I sometimes will go back and read that book and wonder who wrote it. How do you respond to those […]