Joanne Siegel, wife of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, recently passed away. Last December she wrote a letter to DC CEO and Chairman Jeffrey L. Bewkes pleading with him to end the lawsuits and come to the table with a good faith business approach.So I ask you to please consider – do these mean spirited tactics […]
Lloyd Dangle has announced that he is ending Troubletown at the end of April after 22 years.That’s right folks, after twenty-two years I’ve decided to retire my comic strip. It’s been an agonizing decision but I’ve come to the conclusion that the time is right. I’ll be doing my last strip at the end of […]
The second installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie franchise took top billing at the box office this last weekend taking in $24.4 million – beating the original Wimpy Kid movie by $2 million.Other comic/animated related films still in the top 10 include Rango (#5) and Mars Needs Moms! (#10)
Congrats to Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries, who is celebrating her features’s fifth year in syndication as of yesterday.On her blog, she’s looking back at what she’s learned in these last five years.In honor of the 5-year mark, here are the TOP 5 things that syndication has taught me: 5. Gut-wrenching heartache. Forget […]
Funny anecdote from The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID). A reader noticed the art work in The Elderberries had changed and asked the paper if a new artist had taken over. The syndicate reports that Corey Pandolph is still the cartoonist, but that Corey had changed the tools he used drawing the strip.“I decided it best […]
The ongoing lawsuit between Warren Beatty and Tribune Co. over ownership to the rights TV and movie rights for Dick Tracy has been tilted in Beatty’s favor after a judge last week ruled that Beatty had satisfied a requirement to begin a Dick Tracy movie or TV show. From Bloomberg:The actor said he started filming […]
“Rhymes with Orange” is one of a handful of strips that I have to consciously avoid letting take over this site and appearing four or five times a week. I’m pretty sure that Hilary Price is every bit as funny as I think she is, but I’m very sure that her mind works in […]
For those keeping score, three of the big five editorial cartooning journalism awards announced so far have all gone to a “Mike.”Mike Peters – National Headliners Award Mike Thompson – Scripps Howard Award Mike Keefe – John Fischetti Award Herblock Award – Tom Toles Matt Wuerker – National Press FoundationStill unannounced:Overseas Press Club (late April) […]
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) has won this year’s National Headliner Award for editorial cartooning. Second and third place went to Stuart Carlson (Universal Uclick Syndicate) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News, NY) respectively. Mike won the award last year. Interviewed by Michael Cavna about the announcement, Mike said, […]
Non Sequitur got a genuine laugh, rather than a “that’s pretty good,” out of me this morning. Now, of course, having enjoyed it, I feel compelled to analyze why I enjoyed it.Sort of the way a puppy gets a nice squeaky toy and then tears it apart to find, and destroy, the squeaker. It’s how […]
“Guts: A Young Adult Television Fiasco” comes courtesy of a tip at the Comics Reporter, a website I hit every morning which is much more comic-book than comic-strip oriented but is full of fascinating stuff. (This is the first page of the memoir; hit the link to read the whole thing. It’s long enough to […]
Prompted by his blog readers, Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote a post regarding Men?s Rights Activism. The post was take down, not before feminists made captured it. Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights: Get over it, you bunch of […]
The second installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be opening in theaters today. Early reviews are mixed when looking at top critics over on RottenTomatoes.com. Michael O’Sullivan of the Washington Post wasn’t that impressed:The problem doesn’t really lie in the acting but in the writing. There’s too much effort expended on making […]
WWDMedia is reporting that a fourth reporter for the iPad only publication, The Daily, has left for other opportunities. Culture reporter Molly Young joins Lauren Bans, Heather Havrilesky and political reporter Jon Ward who have left the two month old publication.“It was incredibly fun to work in a newsroom: lots of reporting, lots of running […]
As noted before, “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” has the advantage of being a web strip and thus being able to respond more quickly to developing news.But I doubt even Pab Sungenis was expecting this late-breaking boost to his punchline, in which we discover that the NATO push against Libya’s attacks on its own […]