Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Jan Eliot of “Stone Soup” joins me to talk about her wonderfully winding road to syndication and about the great comic she’s been doing for 20 years! Find out how […]
A group of National Cartoonists Society members are on a USO tour. Below is a news segment from their stop in Incirlik Air Base (Turkey). The spot features primarily Baby Blues artist Rick Kirkman, but you’ll catch of glimpse of Ed Steckley and Sam Viviano.
Berkeley Breathed came out of retirement and began posting his legendary strip Bloom County on his Facebook wall. GoComics announced that his strip will now also run on their comic site. It appears the strip is running about a week behind what is being posted on Facebook, so if you want up-to-the second Opus, follow […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Actress, writer, sculptor, singer, 4-time “Star Trek” alien…Suzie Plakson is a creative force to be reckoned with. We have a great chat about creativity in general, but more specifically, about […]
King Features is celebrating its 100th year this November by printing and distributing a full-color collectable supplement to newspapers. The supplement will be 16 broadsheet pages with comics through its long history along with articles about the strips.I’ll let you know more details when they become available.
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Who knew Hell could be such a fun place? Keith Brown knew, that’s who! Keith does the funny, political, satirical and flat out wonderful comic, “The Wages of Sin.” I’ve […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: More single-panel cartoon greatness appears on Tall Tale Radio! The very funny Lonnie Millsap is here to talk about his long road through middle management to his cartooning career, what […]
Illustrator Mike Miller has created a series of posters casting Calvin and Hobbes as other sidekick duos from comic books and the big screen. Think Rocket and Groot, Batman and Robin, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Below are a couple of my favorites. He created 25 of them in total which you can see in […]
Charles Brubaker has posted a fascinating piece over at Cartoon Research about the 1980’s ?The Fantastic Funnies? television show wherein actress Loni Anderson, best known for WKRP in Cincinnati, introduces and talks to cartoon characters from newspaper comics of the day. Here’s the intro video. Charles has posted seven other YouTube videos from that program […]
From Loudwire:Are you a fan of the ?Garfield? comic strip, but always thought it needed a few Metallica references? Well, here?s a treat for you. Since May of this year, a cartoonist has been churning out a comic strip called ?Hetfield,? which clearly spoofs the popular ?Garfield? comic while cleverly throwing in some fun nods […]
Steve Sicula’s Home and Away is going away. On GoComics Steve confirmed the end by stating:Thank you all for the kind words. Yes, unfortunately the strip has ended but Go Comics will be rerunning from very close to the beginning. Just working out some details. Thanks again, it was a fun ride.The last day was […]
Fun Home, Dykes to Watch Out For creator Alison Bechdel was on Late Night with Seth Meyer’s on Wednesday. Her segment comes in at about minute 28. Also part of the segment includes actors performing a scene from the Broadway play Fun Home based on her graphic novel.
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation:A new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney highlights how important Ginger Meggs has been in charting the changing nature of childhood and Australian society over the past 90 years. It contains examples of strips drawn by the five artists who have worked on Ginger over the years as well as other […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Marc Goldner and Rachel Korsen are here to talk to Justin Thompson and I about their very cool and ambitious project, The Sunday Comics! They’re putting together a newspaper-style publication […]
Chip Dunham is celebrating 25 years writing and drawing his comic strip Overboard. The strip launched on July 22, 1990. To commemorate the milestone, Gocomics has posted 25 of Chip’s favorite strips with commentary as well as a give-away of an archive-quality print of one of these comics. Details on the give-away are here.Here’s one […]