Sad news from Anne Hambrock about her blog Spot the Cartoonist: Also, since launching this site, I started the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning and am also working on developing a speaker’s bureau for cartoonists and, frankly, those endeavors take a tremendous amount of time and energy and will probably yield better results as far as […]
Tucker Stone takes an ignorant review of Doonesbury over at The Comics Journal: At this point you?re probably thinking one of two things: either that Doonesbury is such an easy target at this point that criticizing Trudeau for being a complacent self-important boomer is about as shocking as the assertion that Orson Welles put on […]
Another great interview by Tall Tale Radio podcaster Tom Racine talking to Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis about his new treasury collection, and “a bittersweet/hilarious story bound to cement his place as a rock-star cartoonist that involves a limo, late night partying and a midget. ”
Susie MacNelly, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are carrying on the legacy of Jeff MacNelly’s Shoe comic strip, are producing six original Shoe strips for an online companion website for the USA Network original miniseries Political Animals. The show’s fictional national newspaper, The Washington Globe features weekly updates of plot points and the show’s […]
Another great post on the art of cartooning from Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo – this time on the lost art of hand lettering comics: I draw ?Tina?s Groove? with an ink brush and black india ink. I letter the word balloons with a pen nib dipped in the same ink. Hand-lettering my comic strip […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury, which has a cast of characters number over 50, was named after and built around the character Mike Doonesbury, but this week’s story-line has some wondering if Garry is passing the title character role to Alex – Mike’s daughter. In reality, Garry tells me that the story-line isn’t meant to be an […]
I reported a month ago that Universal Uclick President Lee Salem was relinquishing his title as editor and focusing more of his time to the business side of the syndicate. Michael Cavna talks to several high profile cartoonists who have worked with Lee for their comments on his impact on their work. Cartoonists include: Bill […]
Interesting interview with Vic Lee, creator of Pardon My Planet.DailyINK: Tell us a little bit about Mia: Who is she and what is her role in PARDON MY PLANET? Vic: Truth is, I don?t write for my characters. I created the characters as archetypes to represent the dominant concepts I write for. In general, Jesse […]
Ollie and Quentin, created by Piers Baker, is now rerunning on GoComics.com. Ollie and Quentin ended its syndication last year after a four year run in newspapers. The feature also continues to run in reruns on King Feature’s Daily Ink subscription service.
Todd Clark, creator of Lola and T Lewis co-creator of Over the Hedge, have launched a new webcomic on GoComics.com. The new feature, Mr. Gigi and the Squid isn’t exactly new. The two cartoonists developed the characters for a TV pitch a couple of years back and decided to continue development of the feature as […]
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has stepped into the debate on voter ID laws – specifically the debate in Maine to repeal election day voter registration. The strip that ran last Friday depicts Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster as Jimmy Crow who states that the reason to repeal election day registration is to prevent Democrats […]
Tom Armstrong’s Marvin has turned 30 years old. From King Features:MARVIN first appeared in newspaper comics pages on August 1, 1982. Since that day, the comic strip has revolved around the life and times of a precocious baby boy named Marvin, his father and mother Jeff and Jenny Miller, and their dog Bitsy. Other characters […]
Anne Hambrock has announced that the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning will include an exhibit of original comic art (and opening reception) at the Kenosha Public Museum and a silent auction with the proceeds going to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Margaret Ann’s Place. The auction is being sponsored by the National Cartoonist Society Foundation.Here’s the […]
Today’s Broom Hilda is another example of ill-timed cartoon in light of the Aurora Colorado shootings. Francesco Marciuliano, writer for Sally Forth, issued an apology for Sunday’s Sally Forth strip that had a far looser connection to the events in Aurora. It kind of raises the question – at what point after a tragedy can […]
A few notable mentions as the comic community reacts to the shootings in Aurora CO. The Globe and Mail removed last Friday’s editorial cartoon because it contained a reference to the Batman movie. No information was given about the cartoon, so I’m not sure what exactly it was depicting, but because it was most likely […]