Bob Scott’s Molly and the Bear has moved up from Comics Sherpa to join other web only comics on Gocomics.com. Bob is a veteran animator who has worked with Pixar and Dreamworks Animation. Tom Racine interviewed Bob back in 2009 for this Tall tale Radio podcast.
Comic page changes for the weekThe Yuma Sun wants to replace Peanuts and are asking for suggestions. Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) adds Stone Soup, Diamond Lil and Brevity. Stone Soup was dropped late last year but readers demanded it be reinstated.The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) is adding Pickles and Argyle Sweater to their Sunday pages.
The other post about the declining quality of the Strathmore bristol board has prompted quite a bit of response. Mike Cope has posted a video of him drawing a Valentines Day cartoon that appears in this months Readers Digest. He posts the following regarding his technique:Each gag cartoon begin as a very light rough pencil […]
I’ve heard this complaint from other sources too.Lately I’ve gotten a number of bad batches of Strathmore bristol. The problem with them was they bled. Inking on them with a dip pen resulted in your line getting fuzzy and hairy-looking. Totally unusable. At first MAD sent me some boards that did that, and I couldn’t […]
Dan Reynolds, creator of Reynolds Unwrapped, has started blogging. Dan’s post a lot of his early work including his early submissions to the syndicates.He’s also starting a caption contest. Winner receives a Reynolds Unwrapped poster.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve dropped hints here and there that major changes were afoot here at The Daily Cartoonist. I want to take this opportunity to communicate what changes are coming and why. I created the blog five years ago as a means of better understanding where comics were heading – more specifically syndicated comic strips and editorial […]
Sculptures modeled after the late Johnny Hart’s B.C. characters were put on the auction block to raise money for local charities and colleges in the Birmingham NY area. Four sculptures were sold netting $24,000. Several large sculptures are still available. Organizers hoped to have raised more.Correction: The auction took place in Binghamton, NY not Birmingham.
Rumors swirled last week that Will Smith wanted to remake the musical Annie and feature his daughter Willow. Turns out the rumors are now confirmed. “The time is right to bring back ‘Annie’ to the big screen. Of course, we’re true believers in Willow’s talent and believe she will be perfect in this role,” Columbia […]
Tom Racine continues with his video podcasting. This time he’s interviewed Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli. Join me and Mark Tatulli, brilliant writer and artist behind the syndicated strips “Lio” and “Heart of the City.” We talk about his techniques, how blazingly fast he creates his comics (it’ll make you sick), […]
Tom Spurgeon points out that Malaysian cartoonist Zunar has joined the cartoon Movement.Tom writes:This is particularly great for those of us selfish enough to want to see more of Zunar’s broader perspectives on international affairs as opposed to some of the caricature-based material he’s done within his own country. Zunar is perhaps best known for […]