Rob Tornoe notes:In addition, Gannett continued their furlough strategy for the first quarter of this year, forcing all non-union employees to take a week off without pay. Meanwhile, Gannett’s board of directors will likely pay top executives millions of dollars in bonuses this year, in part for making employees take furloughs.
From The Harvey Awards Committee: The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con are proud to present the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art.Ballots […]
Matthew Petz won last year’s Zuda monthly contest only to watch DC Comics close down Zuda. JK Parkin profiles Matthew’s relaunch of War of the Woods on ComiXology and how the rights to his creation were returned to him.Petz told me that when Zuda closed down, he was offered a percentage of what he would […]
The 29-year-old Somali man accused of attempting to break into Kurt Westergaard’s home on New Year’s Day in 2010 has been found guilty by a Danish court. During the trial, the defendant, who cannot be named under a court order, said he wasn’t planning to kill Westergaard but just wanted to scare him. The Aarhus […]
You can skip the Super Bowl this year. The Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom ad that will run during the game has been released early.
Colleen LaRose, an American woman accused of helping plot the death of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, has changed her plea to guilty to four federal charges. According to CNN, her attorney wouldn’t comment on why she’s reversing her plea.
Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-head is returning to MTV. Screenrant.com reports that the episodes will be new.The new Beavis and Butt-Head episodes will be nothing short of a direct continuation of the original series. Decidedly not a reboot or remake, the show will return with Judge at the helm and behind the microphone. The show?s […]
The Webcomic List Awards have been announced. The top prize, Best Comic, went to Eddie Pitman for his comic Red’s Planet. Category award winners include:Best Writing Award – xkcd Best Color – Dresden Codak Best Black and White – The Abominable Charles Christopher Best Non-Traditional – Romantically Apocalyptic Best Character – Cleopatra in Space Best […]
With the best cartoons, you really don’t know where things are going. Arlo & Janis is often a reflection on mortality, but the current arc appears to be heading into a harsher place than even Jimmy Johnson generally ventures.Arlo is painting the garage, and, Monday, Janis was on the phone with their son, Gene, and […]
Southern California Public Radio interviews Jean Schulz, wife of the late Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, Drabble creator Kevin Fagan, and Nat Gertler, author of The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World’s Most Beloved Comic Strip about the popularity of all things Peanuts. Listen on SCPR’s site or download directly.
Maus author and artist Art Spiegelman has won the Angouleme Gran Prix. The Gran Prix is awarded at the French Angouleme world comic strip festival – the largest festival in Europe. Michael Cavna has Art’s reaction to learning of the honor.
Jeff Parker (the Portland, OR based comic book writer and artist) and illustrator Erika Moen have launched a new webcomic entitled Bucko. They describe the comic as:Poor Rich “Bucko” Richardson just wants to finally get a job and maybe have another opportunity to talk to that one cute girl he met at that party. A […]
Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price competed in Fisticuffs!. Here’s how she described the competition.Picture a stage with two small tables on either side of it. Each table is manned by two cartoonists. There’s a four piece band in the middle of the stage and an MC front and center. The MC gets suggestions from […]
I like Derf. He’s mean to everybody. I don’t know why there can’t be more commentators who spread the joy around like that.I got into it on-line with a dressing-up-like-a-sea-turtle type the other day, not over sea turtles but over something else where I commented on the story as reported and he became furious with […]
There is a movement afoot and it’s not just in Tunisia and Egypt. Last week I posted a blurb about a post by Steve Niles about how comic creators should spend more time promoting comics they like and spend less time tearing comics they don’t like apart. That’s the message that resonated with me, but […]