FoxTrot Pad PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend recently released three short ebooks with about 100 curated FoxTrot strips through the iTunes Book Store. He’s getting a lot of attention from Mac blogs such as The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacGasm, and even a mention by the venerable John Gruber of DaringFireball.One of the latest is from TechCrunch: […]
Dave Kellett’s Coffee: It’s What’s For DinnerSheldon creator Dave Kellett has once again been nominated for Eisner award in the Best Humor category for his book “Coffee: It’s What’s For Dinner.” As he did last year, he’s releasing the book as a free download. My thinking is: I may not be represented by a big […]
Robert Crumb’s Fritz the Cat,The largest exhibit of Robert Crumb’s work is now on exhibit in the Paris’ Museum of Modern Art. From Liveauctioneers.com: Many of the 600 works on display are original drawings shown for the first time, loaned by a handful of private collectors in Europe and the United States. “It’s a big […]
The Antler Boy and Other StoriesJake Parker has launched a Kickstarter project to fund a collection of comic short stories that he’s created over the last eight years. The project has already met its funding goals with 28 more days left, but donors can still contribute and receive signed copies and other incentives.Part of his […]
FoxTrot PacksFoxTrot creator Bill Amend has announced that he’s self-published three FoxTrot collections through the Apple iBook Store using Apple’s free iBooks Author software. Each book is $1.99 and contains about 100 strips.From his website: I?m calling them FoxTrot Pad Packs, because I like the metaphor of collectable cards and how you build up your […]
The Archivist over at the King Features blog has posted an interesting graphic/timeline created by Dik Browne that highlights the rise of his client list from launch (1954) to 1000 papers (1984).
Anne Hambrock has started up a Kickstarter Project to help fund her second annual Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. She tells me that a lot of her donors and sponsors have seen funding cuts and are unable to contribute this year. This new fundraiser will start April 19 and run through May 22. The goal is […]
Matt Wuerker was not the only comic-related Pulitzer winner yesterday. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich, former writer of the comic strip Brenda Starr, won the big prize for commentary. She wrote for the strip from 1985 until the feature retired on January 2, 2011. From the Chicago Tribune: With topics ranging from the giant Marilyn […]
The Team Cul de Sac art will be auctioned off on May 27 and a few of the pieces are now on “display” on the Heritage Auction’s website. So far art on display include Cathy Guisewite, Mort Walker, Ron Ferdinand, Sergio Aragones, Karl Kesel, and Don Rosa with more to be added soon. Also on […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall is auctioning off 12 of his cartoon originals with all the proceeds going to the Sebastian Babin Education Fund. The fund was set up to raise money for Rex Babin’s son after Rex passed away last March. All the proceeds from this auction will be donated to a trust fund to […]
Glenn Fleishman writes a wonderful profile of Richard Thompson, his battle with Parkinsons Disease and the lastest news of hiring Stacy Curtis to do the inking. Thompson is the creator of Cul de Sac, a delightful daily comic strip that features the Otterloop family: Alice, Petey, Mom (Madeline), and Dad (Peter). There are dozens of […]
The New York Times has a fascinating story about a major rift in the Archie Comics leadership over the future of the property. At this, the last of the privately run Mom-and-Pop comic book dynasties, Ms. Silberkleit, 59, the daughter-in-law of a company founder, Louis H. Silberkleit, is deadlocked in a court battle for control […]
The Cartoonist Studio’s second annual “So Ya Wanna be a Cartoonists” has declared a winner. This year the winner goes to Greg Wallace, an illustrator and caricature artist, who’s feature Nothing is not Something bested over 125 other cartoonists over 10 weeks of voting by fans and professional cartoonists. As the winner, Greg’s feature will […]
Rudy Park writer Matt Richtel (aka Theron Heir) tells me he’s taking a year off and turning over the writing duties for Rudy Park to the strip’s artist Darrin Bell. Matt cites needing to take a break to focus on other matters such as his family, his reporting for The New York Times and his […]
Michael Cavna follows up from an earlier post regarding Candorville creator Darrin Bell’s cartoon about Trayvon Martin with another post about how readers reacted to the cartoon. Here’s a sample:While I frequently laugh out loud while reading the comics in The Washington Post, I don’t remember ever crying over them. But Friday’s strip [April 6] […]