This year’s Eisner Award Nominees have been posted. They are as follows:Best Short Story“A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture,” by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #12 (Drawn & Quarterly)“Harvest of Fear,” by Jim Woodring, in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #17 (Bongo) “The Seventh,” by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: […]
Michael Heaton of The Plain Dealer interviews Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk about the 40 year anniversary of his feature.Is there one story line that stands out in your mind? That would be “Lisa’s Story.” I sometimes will go back and read that book and wonder who wrote it. How do you respond to those […]
Former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has launched a comic on GoComics with Jerry Resler, a retired editor and reporter for the Sentinel. The feature is called Gray Matters.On Stuart’s blog, he described the feature as:“Gray matters” follows the life and foibles of Elmer “Gray” Grayson and his family, friends and co-workers. Gray […]
According to Guinness World Records, the book title with the longest title goes to an Indian author who wrote a book on the idiosyncracies of the English language. The book title was 5,633 characters. Coming in second place has to be Stephan’s new book Because Sometimes You Just Gotta Draw a Cover with Your Left […]
King Features comic editor Brendan Burford announced that yesterday was Prince Valiant artist Gary Gianni last strip and that Thomas Yeates will no draw the iconic classic feature.Mark Schultz will continue to pen the series.Correction: The headline when originally posted stated that Mark Schultz was the new artist. Headline has been corrected.
A couple of news stories from The Student Life (Washington University independent paper) regarding the announcement that Mother Goose and Grimm and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be this year’s commencement speaker. The first story is about how Mike wasn’t the model student while at the university.“I was doing posters for the […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist and NCS President Tom Richmond writes on this blog that MAD Magazine is now an iPad app.Today DC Entertainment and MAD Magazine announced the planned release of a new MAD Magazine iPad app complete with interactive features and exclusive content. The app is scheduled to be released on April Fool’s Day (Alfred […]
The LA Times has profiled Big Nate creator Lincoln Peirce about his success with his strip and his friendship with Diary of a Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney.From the LA Times:“Big Nate is almost two separate entities,” said Peirce, 49, who started the comic strip in 1991 to amuse himself. The strip, about a spirited […]
Mother Goose and Grimm creator and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters will be the 2012 commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis in May. Mike graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.“It is a great honor to have one of our most distinguished graduates serve as […]
Sylvia creator Nicole Hollander has announced that after 33 years she’s retiring her strip in newspapers, but will continue to post relevant strips from her archive on her blog.From her blog:After the Chicago Tribune dropped Sylvia, my income was cut by half and Sylvia disappeared from my hometown. I felt the loss. I decided that […]
Roz Warren interviews Six Chix cartoonist Stephanie Piro over at Women’s Voices for Change:“Cartooning is the best revenge,” Stephanie Piro jokes when I ask where her ideas come from. A marital spat with husband John or a stranger’s insensitive remark will quickly find its way into Piro’s “Fair Game” strip or King Features’ popular “Six […]
The Doug Wright nominees have been announced and with it the announcement that legendary Terry (Aislin) Mosher will be inducted into The Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on May 5th.Nominees for best Canadian cartoonists are as follows:Best Book: Hark! A Vagrantby Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly) Lose #3 by […]
Politico reports that Michael Masley, a Doonesbury fan, has launched a campaign to solicit a groundswell of support to give The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.The campaign currently has over 1,800 members.I’ll admit I don’t know what the usual process is for determining candidates for this award, but I’m pretty sure […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their various Division Awards including those for the new Online Comic Strips. The Reuben Awards will be held Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas this year where the winners will be announced.Television AnimationBen Bocquelet and Antoine Perez Production Design on The Wonderful World of Gumball Cartoon […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has announced on his blog that starting today illustrator Stacy Curtis is taking over on inking the daily Cul de Sac.From Richard’s blog:I’ll continue to write Cul de Sac and draw roughs for Stacy to try to decipher and I’ll do as much of the final inking as I […]