Tagged as: comics

Rob Harrel talks to Newsarama about his new graphic novel The Monster On The Hill while at the New York Comic Con.

The Australian Cartoonists Association’s Stanley Awards are being held this weekend. They have six divisions or categories with top honor being the Cartoonist of the Year. This year the nominees are:Peter Broelman, political cartoonist Pat Campbell, The Canberra Times Anton Emdin, MAD magazine contributor Glen Le Lievre, The Age and SMH contributor David Pope, The […]

Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler’s first collection of rejected New Yorker cartoons (I Thought You Would Be Funnier) won an Eisner award. He’s releasing a second collection called, “I Don?t Get It” through Boom!You?ve got to be pretty funny when your rejected cartoons win an Eisner, but that?s what happened to Shannon Wheeler […]

As you know, The Daily Cartoonist operates much like NPR – it’s always there, always free and runs an infrequent annual guilt-trip induced fund-raiser to help cover costs of running the blog. I’m gearing up for a big “Fund The Daily Cartoonist for 2014” campaign set to launch next week. Because I don’t produce a […]

This is the second comic strip creator turned movie director story in the last week. This time, Michael Fry, co-creator of Over the Hedge (with T Lewis), is raising funds via Kickstarter to direct a live-action/animated short called New Soul. The short is about “a new human soul, before it’s born, sitting for an exit […]

Comic Book Resources has posted the results of a weekly themed sketch feature. Last week’s theme was drawing comic book characters in the style of a comic strip. For example, below is Batman in the style of Krazy Kat. There are some good ones featuring as Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Peanuts and of course […]

Personally, I’m happy to see Bill Watterson emerge ever so slightly from seclusion to talk about cartooning. The latest interview is by Jake Rossen of Mental_floss. Where do you think the comic strip fits in today?s culture? Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role […]

IDW has announced that it will publish an artist’s edition of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. The Artist’s Edition reprints Sparky’s originals in color so that you can see not the finished black and white, but all the scratches, blue pencil marks, erasing and editorial notes. The book is published so that the art is the same […]

Great news! Joel Schroeder’s documentary Dear Mr. Watterson will be in select theaters and available for download through iTunes Music store starting November 15. See the screenings page on their website to see if it will be in a theater near you. A new trailer has been released (see below).

Ginger Meggs cartoonist and comedian Jason Chatfield has posted his review of the Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid drawing tablet after a month of use. Boiling it all right down, do I like drawing on it? The answer is yes. I?ve worked full days on it while traveling for the last four weeks and it means […]

The King Features Syndicate archivist profiles Phil Davis who was the artist behind Lee Falk’s Mandrake the Magician. When Lee Falk created MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, he originally thought he might draw the feature as well as write it, but early on he realized his cartooning skills would not be equal to the task. Fortunately, he […]

Ben Zimmer, writing for Slate looks at the history of @#$%! and how it came to represent swear words in comics. In a 1964 article for the National Cartoonist Society, Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker coined the term grawlix, which, after a bit of evolution in its meaning, now refers to the string of typographical […]

The iconic military strip Beetle Bailey is no longer in The Stars and Stripes. The daily edition was slimmed from 40 pages to 32 due to falling advertising and the 10% sequestration cuts the military was handed earlier this year. The daily comics page has been reduced from three pages to one and the Sunday […]