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 […]
Each Wednesday, For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston has been posting a video podcast where she shares with her fans a little peak into her world as a cartoonist and creator of the Patterson family. Below is the latest on the topic of why Lynn decided to bring a new character into the […]
Back in March I told you Mark Buford was heading across the pond for some engagement and while there he met up with a cartoonist group called Cartoon Country. While there Mark was interviewed for their podcast. That podcast has now been posted. Enjoy.
For $.99 you can upload your face and put it into a Dilbert or Garfield cartoon that you can then send to others. From USA Today:“We like to say that we’ve always viewed Dilbert as the first social media brand,” he jokingly explains. “These strips were among the first forms of entertainment that were being […]
In the wake of nationwide municipal elections, South Africa’s Jeremy “Jerm” Nell provides a reminder that not everyone lives in a place where a smooth-running election is traditional.Which means life is getting harder for the nation’s political cartoonists. President Jacob Zuma’s threatened lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro for defamation seems to have drifted off into the […]
Animation Magazine reports that the Fox network is launching two new animated series this fall. The first is entitled “Allen Gregory” and is described as “the adventures of the world?s most celebrated seven-year-old going to school with normal kids.” The second show is an animated version of the 2004 indie film “Napoleon Dynamite.” The animated […]