Yesterday a three-part story-line kicked off in Terri Libenson’s The Pajama Diaries about body issues for young women.The Cleveland Plain Dealer picked up on the story: Q. You have two teenage daughters in real life, age 11 and 14. Were they the inspiration for Body Image? A. I have my own back story. When I […]
BC cartoonist Mason Mastroianni is profiled on WSKG.Part 1 Part 2 Also mentions mother Patti Hart and brother Mick Mastroianni
The book has been teased for a couple of months how (especially if you’re a friend of Chris Sparks on Facebook), but now the book The Art of Richard Thompson now has a cover.The book will have 200+ pages and is due out in November from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
I’m incredibly happy that Universal Uclick, the people who syndicate some of the best known features in the world, is this week’s sponsor. Universal operates GoComics.com – home to hundreds of the finest comics on the innerwebs. In fact, I’m not quite sure a larger collection of comic strips exists on the web. Each month […]
A big thanks to Bearman Cartoons for sponsoring this week’s blog. If you haven’t taken the time, head over to Bearman’s site to check out his editorial cartoons, pop culture cartoons, social media cartoons and caricatures. And even better, if you use his name “Bearman” in a cartoon he will donate $10 to charity. It’s […]
Cory Thomas, creator of Watch Your Head announced on the strip’s Facebook page that it will be coming to an end as a syndicated comic on May 31st. Cory will be rebooting the strip as a web only feature on August 4.From the post:It’s a better fit for the daring PG-13, larger-than-stamps action I’d rather […]
Fox28 visits The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and talks to Caitlin McGurk about the amazing library/museum.
David Reddick, creator of Legend of Bill and The Trek Life will be launch a new comic strip this summer with King Features Syndicate. The feature is called Intelligent Life. From the strip’s Facebook page:INTELLIGENT LIFE is a comic strip that revolves around a set of characters who very much exist in this world of […]
Watch XKCD creator Randall Munroe’s TED Talk. The talk is less about comics than his adventures using Mathematics.
A big thanks goes out to Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. GagCartoons.com is an online platform that allows cartoonist to upload their backlog of published and unpublished gag cartoons that Greg promotes, markets and licenses them for you. You focus on being a great cartoonist, he focuses on selling […]
Great news for Gil fans (at least those who read The Providence Sunday Journal). After Gil creator Norm Feuti retired the strip, the Journal received “outcries from hundreds of readers” and reached out to Norm to see if he’d continue to create the strip for them. The result is a weekly installment of Gil that […]
Tom Richmond, President of the National Cartoonists Society, has posted a letter to the New York Post regarding their decision to drop their comics page. Full letter below: Dear New York Post, It is with great disappointment, and no small amount of confusion, that I learned of the New York Post?s recent decision to entirely […]
I’ve had a couple of reports and seen some tweets saying that the New York Post has eliminated their comics page – their entire page that ran anywhere from 7-9 comics. I haven’t seen any official articles from the Post explaining their decision. If anyone knows what’s going on, please send me a link.Update: Jim […]
Jim Borgman has posted several early sketches and brainstorms of Zits that he co-created with Jerry Scott. Among the revelations – Zits was almost named:
KC Business magazine has named Andrews McMeel (parent company of Universal Uclick) the coolest office in Kansas City. They have a great write-up with lots of photos. Unfortunately, you have to read it through a magazine reader site. Here’s the link. Skip to page 18.