Tom Racine interviews Wiley Miller about his comic strip Non Sequitur which celebrates 20 years in syndication. From Tom’s Tall Tale Radio Podcast:Wiley Miller of the brilliant “Non Sequitur” joins me to talk about the fact that his comic just turned 20 years old! He’s been in syndication since 1992, and has seen a lot […]
Yesterday was Prince Valiant’s 75th birthday. The strip was created by Hal Foster in 1937. Hal was authoring the popular Tarzan comic strip when he was invited to create his new strip by William Randolph Hearst who distributed it through his syndicate King Features.The strip has since been adapted in many forms. It was made […]
Fantastic news for Pickles creator Brian Crane. Washington Post Writers Group has announced that Pickles has crossed the 800 paper milestone earlier this month. It was first launched in 1990.From the WPWG:Crane began the strip 22 years ago, while he was working full time at an advertising agency. He would drive home, have dinner with […]
Chris Mautner over at The Robot6 blog names six comic strips that he believes met “an untimely death.” He names:Franklin Fibbs by Hollis Brown and Wes Hargis, Top of the World by Mark Tonra, Spot the Frog by Mark Heath, Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski, Lucky Cow by Mark Pett and Oh, Brother by Jay […]
Chris Sparks the mastermind and muscle behind the Team Cul de Sac project to raise funds for a cure for Parkinson’s Diseasehas released the names of the artists who will be featured in the Team Cul de Sac book that is due out in June. Here’s the list of artists: Bill Amend Brian Anderson Mark […]
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is saluting a number of cartoonists that have lived, worked or been educated in Columbus, OH. In honor of the city’s 200th birthday, several of the cities notable artists’ work will be on display. Exhibiting artists include: Billy Ireland, Milton Caniff, Harry J. Westerman, Eugene […]
Yesterday was the first day of this year’s Annual Amateur Cartoonist Contest sponsored by The Cartoonists Studio. This year there are 135 contestants (up from 119 last year). Here’s the schedule for the elimination rounds. Elimination Rounds voting starts voting ends Round one Monday, 12:00 am 2/6 Sunday 5:00 am 2/12 Round two Monday, 12:00 […]
The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific […]
Brian Fies (Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow) is helping organize the third international conference on Comics & Medicine that will be held July 22-24 Toronto, Canada. Keynote presentations this year will be by comics creators Joyce Brabner (Our Cancer Year) and Joyce Farmer (Special Exits), as well as a talk […]
METlife’s Superbowl commercial is on YouTube (see below) which features over 75 comic characters from the venerable pitch characters of Peanuts to Saturday Morning favorites. Mark Anderson broke the commercial down to a near frame-by-frame rate to catalog all of the cameos – both official and unofficial. He spotted at least one credit error and […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]
Amazing. Rich Burlew has raised nearly half of a million dollars through Kickstarter to reprint out-of-print collections of his webcomic Order of the Stick. The project has over 6000 supporters who have contributed anywhere from $10 to $5000. The fund drive will continue until February 21st.
Two weeks ago Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis launched an iPad app called Only The Pearls – a 250 best of collection with audio commentary, interactive features and 22 videos of Stephan acting like an egotistical “ass#%$*” (his description, not mine. Okay, maybe I inserted the word egotistical). There’s something troubling about the app […]
Comic historian Bob Harvey takes a look at the history of the serial comic strip Mary Worth. The version of history that inspires this diatribe claims that Martha Orr, a niece of Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Carey Orr, started the comic strip that has always been dubbed the first soap opera strip. But she didn’t […]
Animated Editorial Cartoonist Ann Telnaes and Cartoon Historian Warren Bernard were interviewed on the Bob Edwards Show about Ronald Searle who recently passed away last month.