Interesting write-up of the 10 most controversial college newspapers in the U.S. The college newspaper is the perfect storm for controversial content. The content standards are much more relaxed because nobody is afraid of offending the older readers (most papers don’t have a subscription so no fear of someone “dropping the paper”). Advisors are less […]
Cartoonists from the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be visiting the McMaster’s Children’s Hospital next Friday to draw cartoons for the children patients. Local cartoonists participating include Chapter Chair Mike Cope, Jonathan Mahood and Patricia Storms.
MythTickle creator Justin Thompson has posted a two part report on his December trip to Havana Cuba to paint a mural of Snoopy and Woodstock at the invitation of the community. The trip was funded by Jeanie Schulz and the mural represents the first for a US citizen.A little shy of two years ago, I […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has released his first iPad app called “Only the Pearls.” The app contains 250 of his favorite strips with 125 audio commentaries, 22 videos of himself and 12 animated strips.Here’s part of the description:For Only the Pearls, Pastis personally selected his favorite 250 strips. More than half of the […]
Jeff Payden’s Biff & Riley comic has moved from Comic Sherpa to GoComics.com as of Monday where it will be updated on Monday and Wednesdays. Jeff put the strip on Sherpa back in 2010. Biff & Riley are two dog brothers with completely different personalities and the strip follows their adventures.
The AV Club takes a look at 15 comic strips/panels that made the leap to animation. List includes The Far Side, Garfield, Wizard of Id, Doonesbury, Blondie, Pogo, For Better or For Worse, Cathy, Marvin, Lil’ Abner, The Smurfs, Hagar the Horrible, The Phantom, Miss Peach Of The Kelly School and Peanuts.They’ve posted video clips […]
Arlo and Janis creator Jimmy Johnson has a new book collection out (Beaucoup Arlo & Janis). His ex-wife Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes glowingly about the strip and her former husband.If my youthful insecurities and jealousies during our life together helped inspire a single idea, I’m proud to have been of service. Jimmy, like most good […]
Today.com has profiled Gil creator Norm Feuti about the launch of his new feature and how it compares to other family strips. The cartoonist finds it a bit surprising that it’s taken newspaper comics so many years to deal with divorce head-on. “It’s sort of an odd thing where we’re afraid to show real life,” […]
In addition to the creation of a new online comic strip category, the National Cartoonists Society has announced their annual call for entries for their 15 division awards. The division categories include: Television Animation, Feature Animation, Newspaper Illustration, Gag Cartoons, Greeting Cards, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspaper Panel Cartoons, Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration, Book Illustration, Editorial Cartoons, […]
The National Cartoonists Society has created a new and separate award category for webcomics this year in its division awards. The category is simply named “On-Line Comic Strips” and requires that the feature be a comic strip (no single panel or long-form narrative), appear on the web only at least weekly, and the creator has […]
The Berndt Toast Gang is honoring one of their founding members, Creig Flessel, with an exhibit of his work during the month of January. The 26 piece exhibit is on display Art League of Long Island throughout the month with a reception on the 27th with other Long Island NCS chapter members displaying their take […]
Cartoon Movement editors Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards spent a month in Haiti earlier this year with the goal of finding an artist and writers for a comic journalism project to document the issues facing that country after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The first chapter of the book “Tents Beyond Tents” will be released on […]
Mark Anderson, creator of Andertoons, has relaunched a redesign of his cartoon commerce site. The new site boasts of a better search engine, faster load times (upwards of 600%!), larger cartoons and a cleaner interface for finding the perfect cartoon.Mark has one of the best comic commerce sites on the web. If I were to […]
In light of the recent passing of Ronald Searle Gallery Nucleus (Alhambra CA) is opening a special exhibit tomorrow featuring the great British cartoonist and illustrator.Gallery Nucleus is honored to present the world-renowned cartoonist and illustrator, Ronald Searle, for a special solo exhibition. Searle has been an influential figure in the cartooning world since the […]
A bit off topic, but a source of befuddled humor this morning. I use a lot of Google Alerts to find news of interest for the blog. As I was quickly going through the list I noticed several headlines from The Journal News (NY) about horrible events but all mentioned the newly launched Gil comic. […]