Fort Knox cartoonist Paul Jon is commemorating Memorial Day this year by creating a story-line to honor the civilians that supported their country on the home front. The story-line began yesterday and will introduce the Wesley Knox character to the “Rosie the Riveters” – women who built ships during WWII while most men were serving […]
Markos “kos” Moulitsas, the founder of the leading liberal blog Daily Kos, announced that he has added Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore to the weekly line up. Mark joins Dan Perkins (aka Tom Tomorrow), Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors and Eric Lewis in the weekly rotataion. Mark’s work appears on Thursdays.Kos writes:I’ve long dreamed of bringing […]
The accusation of plagiarism has raised it’s ugly head and is looking at Columbus Dispatch editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler. According to Jim Romenesko, a headline by Andy Borowitz ran last Thursday stating, “New Study Finds iPad is Cure for Adultery; Owners ‘Stop Noticing Other People Altogether” is eerily similar to a cartoon Jeff ran three […]
With the big announcement back in February that United Media was turning over syndication operations to Universal Press Syndicate, it was also followed that all the comics found on comics.com would join up with gocomic.com in June. We’re one week away and Universal has announced how it will all work going forward. Starting on June […]
Yesterday Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson and Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna were on NPR discussing Richard’s strip and his career.Transcript
I’m a little disappointed that Tom Tomorrow appears to base a six-panel cartoon entirely on one article, but it’s not a short article and the topic is compelling.So is the metaphor, myth or not. I first began reading newspaper archives in my mid-30s. I was dating a woman whose father remarked that, when he became an […]
Josh Ferrin, the 2004 Locher Award winner, recently relocated back to Salt Lake City and this week closed on the purchase of a house. This weekend he went up into the attic and found several old ammunition cases filled with money. An estimated $50,000 squirreled away by the previous owner who passed away last November. […]
Bill Rechin, creator of “Crock,” “Out of Bounds” and “Pluribus,” has passed away at the age of 80 due to complications to esophageal cancer.“He was a cartoonist’s cartoonist,” said Mel Lazarus, creator of “Momma” and “Miss Peach.” Rechin’s signature is the giant nose. His unmistakable characters usually have sloping shoulders and drooping bellies. His comic […]
Just got word from Bill Kellogg that he and Tundra creator Chad Carpenter are planning for another Success In Comics seminar. Once again to keep costs low for participants, they’re looking at Las Vegas in February. They haven’t ruled out an east coast venue at a later date. The seminar will follow the same format […]
Yeah, I think if I were a crime scene investigator, I’d hate that series, and I’d probably drink, too.I’m not a crime scene investigator, but I do drink and, while I don’t particularly hate the shows, I don’t particularly like them, either.On a macro level, it’s bad enough that the growth of unnecessarily grotesque and […]
Today’s Candorville revives the fear of the previous generation: What if Big Brother can watch, but wouldn’t bother?At the turn of the century, there was a sitcom called “Dharma and Greg,” about an uptight guy from an uptight family married to the free-spirited daughter of flower children. In one of the two or three episodes […]
Daryl Cagle posts a brief item reflecting on this Frank Beard classic cartoon, in light of Arnold Schwartzenegger’s current scandalous problems. With Schwarzenegger’s political career already in the rearview mirror, I’m not sure the parallel holds, but the general tone of political commentary has certainly reverted to the partisan age in which Beard reigned.During the […]
The Washington Post has a great write-up of Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson about the genesis of his strip, his career and dealing with Parkinson’s Disease.It was 2003, when Thompson’s younger daughter was preschool age. “I was just watching and thinking: This is a strange little place they’ve got going here,” Thompson recalls. “This […]
Dick Locher, Richard Thompson and Peter Dunlap-Shohl all have one thing in common – they all have Parkinson’s Disease. Michael Cavna talks to Peter about how deals with the disease’s effects on his motor skills.At the same time, the Internet was changing publishing. I decided that I would start a Parkinson?s blog illustrated with my […]
Michael Cavna of the Washington Post has a lengthy-but-fascinating profile of Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson on his Comic Riffs site, for which he interviewed Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and several other people who know what they are talking about.Fascinating but lengthy. You don’t have time to […]