So say we all, Your Highness.And well-timed, as Facebook today enacts the mandate that a graphic system which worked just fine must now be replaced by one that does not.One of the challenges in the on-line world is leaving things alone. It was easy in the days of print and other “hard media”: The thing […]
The LA Times has profiled Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce about his success with his strip and his friendship with Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney.From the LA Times:“Big Nate is almost two separate entities,” said Peirce, 49, who started the comic strip in 1991 to amuse himself. The strip, about a spirited […]
University of Texas student editorial cartoonist, Stephanie Eisner, is no longer The Daily Texan’s cartoonist after she created a national stir with a cartoon that run on Tuesday. The cartoon depicts a mother (labeled “The Media”) reading to her daughter saying, “And then … the big bad white man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent colored […]
It’s not remarkable to find politics in a political strip, and Prickly City is a political strip, one of a couple of attempts to find a responsible opposing voice to Doonesbury.Which quest has posed two major problems: One is the assumption that Doonesbury invariably presents the “liberal” point of view, and I put “liberal” in “quotation […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be the 2012 commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis in May. Mike graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.“It is a great honor to have one of our most distinguished graduates serve as […]
The Raleigh News & Observer has announced that it is dropping nine features – a reversal of a decision made in 2008 to expand their comic offerings due to overwhelming reader demand. Back in 2008, the features editor at the time, Thad Ogburn, ran a poll after cutting three strips, but after receiving nearly 8,000 […]
A consumer tip from xkcd along with its own disclaimer in the form of a punchline. And, as always, you should go back to the site for the roll-over gag.”Gag” being operative in this discussion of Cadbury Eggs, which are kind of fun but in a candy-corn sense of “Okay, you’ve celebrated the season. Now go […]
Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander has announced that after 33 years she’s retiring her strip in newspapers, but will continue to post relevant strips from her archive on her blog.From her blog:After the Chicago Tribune dropped Sylvia, my income was cut by half and Sylvia disappeared from my hometown. I felt the loss. I decided that […]
Roz Warren interviews Six Chix cartoonist Stephanie Piro over at Women’s Voices for Change:“Cartooning is the best revenge,” Stephanie Piro jokes when I ask where her ideas come from. A marital spat with husband John or a stranger’s insensitive remark will quickly find its way into Piro’s “Fair Game” strip or King Features’ popular “Six […]
Lynn Johnston has released two of her books as an audiobook and ibook in the iTunes book store. “Farley Follows His Nose” has been released as a audiobook read by narrator Kathleen McInerney. Her other book, “Farley and the Lost Bone” has been released as an iBook that features read-along audio recorded by Lynn herself […]
The Doug Wright nominees have been announced and with it the announcement that legendary Terry (Aislin) Mosher will be inducted into The Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on May 5th.Nominees for best Canadian cartoonists are as follows:Best Book:Spotlight Award (talent deserving of wider recognition):Pigskin Peters Award (best in avant-garde […]
Today’s Rhymes With Orange is sort of a bathetic response to yesterday’s diatribe on the importance of alone-time. (I thought I was making up that word, but I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, good. It ought to.)Hilary Price celebrates the eccentricities of the inner life better than anybody in the business, and […]
Politico reports that Michael Masley, a Doonesbury fan, has launched a campaign to solicit a groundswell of support to give The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.The campaign currently has over 1,800 members.I’ll admit I don’t know what the usual process is for determining candidates for this award, but I’m pretty sure […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their various Division Awards including those for the new Online Comic Strips. The Reuben Awards will be held Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas this year where the winners will be announced.Television AnimationBen Bocquelet and Antoine Perez Production Design on The Wonderful World of Gumball Cartoon […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has announced on his blog that starting today illustrator Stacy Curtis is taking over on inking the daily Cul de Sac.From Richard’s blog:I’ll continue to write Cul de Sac and draw roughs for Stacy to try to decipher and I’ll do as much of the final inking as I […]