I have met John Hambrock, creator of “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee,” and his wife and colorist, Anne, but did not ask them for ID. Still, I suspect neither was born when the Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan performing “Little Red Rooster.” At least, they don’t look 47.This isn’t that performance, but it will […]
Today’s installment over at The Road to Syndication has King Feature Comic Editor Brendan Burford and Gil creator Norm Feuti talking about character dynamics.During the development period, we explored all of the different interactions that can occur between each of the characters. Norm was essentially forming his characters? personalities based on how they interacted with […]
Things must be somewhat settle. I haven’t seen many reports of comics being dropped/picked up in a while. There are a few to report. Michael Cavna reports that the Washington Post is now running Frazz in their Style section daily. Apparently Frazz was running in the KidsPost but not daily. The Post also moves Doonesbury […]
You may wish to put a dishtowel under your computer to catch some of the dripping sarcasm in Matt Bors’s current commentary. Or read it straight up and assume he’s my age.Sarcasm is a difficult tool because, to begin with, there are a great many people with no sense of irony, and, in addition, it’s […]
20th Century Fox TV has told TheWrap that even though the voice talent and producers have agreed to a pay cut for this upcoming season, the show “is no longer profitable for the network.” Reuters reports that the network has made over $1 billion in its 23 season.From Entertainment Fix:An unnamed executive from US network […]
When cartoonists and cartoon fans talk about their early influences or the ones that really got them interested in comics as a medium, the strips you hear about tend to be the groundbreakers, like Barnaby, Pogo, and Peanuts. I liked those strips, though I only saw Barnaby in a collection my parents had and Walt Kelly’s […]
If I didn’t know that Wiley Miller keeps average deadlines for Non Sequitur, I’d suspect he was listening over the state line to NHPR’s “The Exchange” last week, when the guest was T.R. Reid and the topic was medical care here and in other countries.Reid puts the lie to claims that medicine overseas is tremendously […]
Bill BussingerThere will be a lot of Steve Jobs obituary cartoons over the next week, but this designer has nailed it. Every once in a long while, a “weeper” cartoon works. This one works.What I find interesting — and a bit depressing — is that I’m seeing cartoons this morning that are the same as […]
Great point by Jen Chaney at the Washington Post:As the public mourns the death of Steve Jobs and contemplates his achievements, the first word that immediately comes to mind is: Apple. As Hank Stuever writes in his appreciation of the technological visionary ? who died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56 ? […]
Just a quick announcement. My wife reminded my last night that The Daily Cartoonist turned 6 years old. The date’s a bit fuzzy. The first blog post was on October 5 – but that was on a free blogging account on Blogger. I purchased the domain on the 14th with the first news story soon […]
Yeah, I’m back at Rhymes With Orange barely a week later. As I’ve said before, I could feature this strip three or four times a week and I’d still be holding back.Today’s panel, however, touches on three things: Two that fascinate me and one that infuriates me. I’ll try not to let discussion of #3 […]
Posted on the Disney/Pixar Facebook page: “Steve Jobs was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend and the guiding light of the Pixar family. He saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined. Steve took a chance on us and believed in our crazy […]
Chris Joseph takes a dour look at what he calls the seven most depressing comic strip characters in newspapers today. Sunday morning comics are a bit of a dying art form. Thanks mainly to the interwebs killing off the newspaper industry, reading the comics on a Sunday morning is becoming more and more a thing […]
Rip Haywire creator Dan Thompson will be releasing a graphic novel based on his comic at the end of this month. The book is entitled, Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa!You can check out samples of his book over on his web site. The book is a 112 page story of new material and […]
The blurb in the rail includes “made me think” as one of the criteria for being here, and Jeff Stahler’s cartoon did make me think.I’ve got a rather large bone to pick with him, however, in that, while this is a spectacularly bad time to be in the job market, there is nothing particularly special […]