Tribune Media Services has announced a new creative team to keep the long-running comic Dick Tracy running. Dick Locher is stepping down after 32 years with the strip. Dick was an assistant to Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould fro three years starting in 1957 and then resumed artistic duties in 1983 after Rick Fletcher passed. […]
Richard Thompson and friend Chris Sparks have launched Team Cul de Sac – an effort to solicit professional cartoonists, illustrators and artists of all stripes to help contribute to a book to be published by Andrews & McMeel to raise awareness of Parkinson’s Disease. Part of the profits of the book will got to the […]
Police have seized a “large amount” of weapons from Travis Corcoran, who runs the online comic book business HeavyInk.com and made headlines when he wrote a gleeful blog post after U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in Tucson, AZ.From the Boston Globe: Police Captain Robert Bongiorno said Monday that police suspended Corcoran’s […]
Been there. Many times.Terri Libenson’s “Pajama Diaries” is a relatively young strip — coming up on five years old — centered on a work-at-home artist mom and largely based on the conflicts in balancing work and home when they take place in the same space.It’s very strongly targeted: There aren’t a lot of complex relationships […]
Jennifer Eberbach writes about Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly’s trip to Kuwait and Iraq last October with the USO. “You get more than you give with the USO. You are there to entertain them, but it also changes you to see things you only hear about on the news. Hearing the soldiers’ stories about things […]
Chris Smith has written a profile about Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis in the The Press Democrat. Topics include his work schedule and non-Pearls projects. Most Monday mornings, the Los Angeles native leaves the Rincon Valley-area condo that he and his Santa Rosa-born wife, the former Staci Daniels, share with kids Thomas, 13, and […]
Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv and Reason.com, takes Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist Steve Benson to task for his cartooning of the Tucson shooting.It’s not that we need more proof that editorial cartooning (with the exception of Reason.com’s Bok, Payne, and Stantis) is the lowest of all art forms, but here you go, a week’s worth […]
Marc Sobel looks at the comic scene for those with Android powered phones. In November, I finally joined the cult of the smartphone. I’m not the type of guy who’s usually on the bleeding edge of technology, nor am I one to become an early adopter of anything (other than comics, of course), but when […]
I just want to point out that I was a sucker for “Dog Eat Doug” well before I began raising a puppy. But certainly I have to admit that I’m more vulnerable now than ever.Brian Anderson has a deft touch and is able to put funny, adult-style thoughts into Sophie’s head without turning the […]
Ollie and Quentin creator Piers Baker just passed his third year in syndication. He’s posted his thoughts about another year in syndication and the trials of trying to be funny when your world collapses . So, what of this third year? I have accepted that O&Q haven’t exactly set the US comic industry alight but […]
Agnes creator Tony Cochran will be on Writers Talk today at 3:30 pm (EST) on WCRS. An excerpt of his appearance will be rebroadcast on Wednesday January 19 at 8:00 pm on WCBE. For those of us out of the Ohio area, the audio will be archived online at writerstalk.org (check there tomorrow). Tony was […]
The 2010 Webcomic List Awards nominees have been announced. I’ve promoted a few of them here as being worthy your time namely Bug and Red’s Planet, but as I look at the list – I’m seeing quite a few worth voting for.Here they are:For Best Writing Sinfest Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Bug Oglaf (NSFW) xkcdFor […]
Is Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler is a patriot or a pinhead for drawing this cartoon so soon after the Tucson murder?Bill O’Reilly asked his audience that question. You can vote on his website.Here’s the video from that segment. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIn an email (before the O’Reilly attention), Nate explained his […]
The family stuck inside is a fairly common comic strip plotline in winter, and the quality of the resulting story arc depends for the most part on how well the cartoonist has established actual individual characters among the cast, as opposed to populating it with bland archetypes. No problem in this case: Sally Forth has […]
I like Jim Morin’s take on the Obama speech in Tucson, not only because I agree with it, but because it leaves a great deal to be discussed, largely based on the president’s facial expression.I looked on YouTube for a clip from “To Sir With Love,” hoping to find something from early in the film, […]