Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has won a Harvey Award in the Best Syndicated Strip category. It was a pretty solid category with Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), and Stephen Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) as the other nominees.In the category for best Online Comic work, Kate Beaton took the award […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson notes that the strip is five years old and he’s posted early – pre-syndication, pre-Washington Post versions of the strip while he was still working with the concept. He writes: Here are the first two strips I tried with the Otterloop family, and you can see just how badly […]
LA Times comic page readers got a bit of leggy Edda and Amos in a clothed missionary position with their breakfast earlier this month. Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane is was running a story-line in which Amos climbs on stage to propose to Edda but somehow he ends up on top of Edda. The LA […]
Next week Jeff MacNelly?s Shoe will turn 35. Jeff?s wife Susie, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are producing the strip now, have created a special retrospective series that takes Skyler, one of the strip’s characters, back in time to 1977 to meet Jeff.From the press release: The week-long retrospective kicks off with Skyler traveling […]
King Feature’s The Archivist has a interesting post on the internationalization of Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: Ever since the 1950’s, BEETLE BAILEY has been embraced by many nations outside the United States, because like most good strips, the series exhibits universal human foibles that all can identify with. In this case, the world of army […]
Mentioned in the news that Alex Hallatt’s Arctic Circle comic strip had hit the 5 year milestone mark was news that an ebook collection of her strip would soon be available. And now it is. You can download yours from Lulu.com or Apple’s iBookstore. As Alex jokes in her email to me – the cost […]
Richard’s Poor Almanac and Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has posted a tidbit on how you can get a signed copy of his book Richard’s Poor Almanac. It’s a rare collection – I don’t remember how much I paid for mine and was smart enough to take it to the New Orlean’s NCS weekend […]
Several National Cartoonists Society members have returned from a USO trip to Bahrain and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to draw/sign cartoons for members of the US Military. The cartoonists in the group were Jeff Bacon (Broadside), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Jeff Keane, (The Family Circus), Rick Kirkman (co-creator of Baby Blues), Tom Richmond (MAD […]
For those interested in using their iPad for more cartooning (you bought it as a business expense, right?) Bill LaRocque did a demo of how he uses his iPad to do cartooning and talks about the benefits and drawbacks. He notes most of his artwork nowadays is digital.
Using Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest Universal Uclick has created three social media channels for specific liberal and conservative political content for the election season. GoComics, a part of Universal Uclick, has developed new Facebook pages and Twitter accounts where fans of these political leanings can receive focused comics that they are apt to share. These […]
Another classic Learn to Draw with Tom Gammill.Best line as Tom sits between Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, “Between the three of us, we have two Reubens.”
Today would have been Jack Kirby’s 95th birthday. Tom Spurgeon has two excellent posts to commemorate the day: Jack Kirby, The King Of Comics, Would Have Been 95 Today: A sample of Kirby artwork Random Jack Kirby Links And News Round Up: Links to several notable articles, posts and interviews related to Kirby.
The Cartoon Art Musuem in San Francisco is wrapping up its “What, Me Worry?” 60 Years of MAD Magazine exhibit in a couple of weeks. Giving it an appropriate send off. We’re celebrating and saying farewell to one of our most popular exhibits, “What, Me Worry?” 60 Years of MAD Magazine which ends September 16th. […]
What a great project. Hope the Cartoon Art Museum can raise what it needs to make the exhibit possible.
Arctic Circle creator Alex Hallatt is celebrating five years in syndication with her strip. The strip was actually created in 1992, but didn’t appear in newspapers until 2007 after it ran as a guest strip in the Australian Rural Press. King Features picked it up in 2007. An eBook is also in the works.