The National Cartoonist Society Foundation has offered to match all new donations to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Kickstarter effort until it reaches its $10,000 goal. As of this writing, the festival has raised nearly $5,000 which means that it will need to raise at least $2,500 in the next 13 days in order to […]
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood:Audio Excerpt:JONATHAN MAHOOD: “With newspaper comics, it’s got to be easy for the reader to get on board. I got my first iPod and I was sitting outside with my dog. I was thinking about how these two things follow me around. I […]
Ken Fisher (AKA Ruben Bolling) has announced that he’s created a monetizing effort called the “Inner Hive” to fans of his comic Tom the Dancing Bug.Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. Those […]
On the heels of their second annual “So You Want to Be a Cartoonist” contest earlier this spring, The Cartoonists Studio will launch two politically themed contests in June and August with winners of both contests announced the day before this year’s presidential election.More details will be posted at a later date, but here’s what […]
Tom Racine interviewes Anne Hambrock on her efforts to bring together the 2nd annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. From Tall Tale Radio:Anne Hambrock, wife of John Hambrock of “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” and colorist for the strip, is deep in the throes of organizing the 2nd Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She threw this […]
Interesting historical photos post over at Retronaut. Hard to imagine this being acceptable today.“I?ve been the owner of these swimsuits since 1950. It was a fashion show held by the manufacturer in their showroom in Manhattan to present their new line, entitled ?the autograph suit.? It could be drawn on or signed and would not […]
Cyriaque Lamar has a funny piece on last month’s Mark Trail story-line about finding Mark going “John Rambo on marijuana farmers.” I admit, I missed the whole story and am not that familiar with the strip as a whole, but she makes a good point about how much wildlife is peppered throughout the strip. But […]
Watch Web Appraisal:1930s Buck Rogers Comic Strip by Dick Calkins on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.
Today kicks off a four-week story-line in Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean around the topic of a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. I reviewed the series last week. I’ve scanned the news this morning looking for newspapers who are telling their readers that they’ve pulled the strip or moved it off the comics pages, […]
Henry Kuo developed a website that displays the first frame of a comic. I created Just the First Frame to be the best way to discover comics on the web. Two opposing issues surround web comics today: discoverability (sharing) and copyright infringement. I believe that showing only the first frame of each comic elegantly solves […]
For those in the Connecticut area: Gil Thorp, popularly regarded as an “always trying to do the right thing” kind of guy, has been known throughout the area, and beyond, for more than half a century. And now, fans of the “Milford High coach” and those who would like to get acquainted will have an […]
Herald Journal comic page from 1947I found this Herald Journal comics page from 1947 from a link provided by Tom Spurgeon. I think Tom’s point was the use of the word “butthead” in the Archie comic strip. As I looked at the page, a couple of things strike me. Despite having a much large page […]
Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. […]
Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell by Dan CollinsDan Collins, perhaps best known for his cartoons in Hustler magazine, has created an eBook and is releasing them in both through iBookstore (iPad) and Amazon (Kindle) . The book is entitled, “Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell” and contains 100+ pages of […]
Deep Shadows by Jerry ScottThe Tribune News asked Rubes cartoonist Leigh Rubin to interview Zits and Baby Blues writer Jerry Scott about his fine art exhibit coming up at The Frame Works Gallery in San Luis Obispo, CA. Q. In addition to the cartooning, you?re also a fine artist. How did that come about, and […]