Stephan Pastis was in England last week promoting his latest Timmy Failure book. He had a couple of interviews that hit the wire. The Economic Times focused on his career. Curiosity and courage In this volatile environment, what does it take to be a cartoonist? “Curiosity and courage. Curiosity because you are only as good […]
Richard Thompson is releasing a paperback chaser to his The Complete Cul de Sac that came out last fall. The new book, Compleating Cul de Sac, includes material that was overlooked or left out of the complete collection. Here’s how Mike Rhode describes Compleating Cul de Sac.The Complete Cul de Sac isn?t. Complete, that is. […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode:I’ve been a fan of Tom Dell’Aringa’s work from the moment I laid eyes on his comic “Marooned.” It started off life as a little comic about a stranded space man […]
This Saturday night is the annual National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Awards weekend where one (maybe two?) people not named Stephan Pastis will be crowned Cartoonist of the Year. On Friday, King Features Syndicate will host a special panel celebrating 100 years of comic strips. The event is free to the public at 11 am at […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: It’s a Cavalcade of Stars on Tall Tale Radio! The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning takes place again this September, and there’s an Indiegogo happening to raise enough money to fund […]
From Jim Romenesko:The former leadership team of Civitas Media, which has newspapers in 12 states, thought it could cut its way to profitability. Several years ago, it removed the color comics from its Sunday papers, and dropped the weather map. Other cuts were made, too, that resulted in big circulation losses, I?m told. Last October, […]
A Tina’s Groove comic (above) that was slated to run May 5 didn’t make it past King Feature editors because it was deemed potentially offensive to some readers. Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo writes how insane it is that the US newspaper comics are stuck in the 1950s as far as humor.This tastes like crap […]
King Features Syndicate has launched a new comic strip on American soil. The strip, Carpe Diem, originates from Sweden and is by Niklas Eriksson. The strip has been running in Europe for many years. in 2008 it won Scandinavia?s biggest comic prize, the Pondus Award.If your paper doesn’t subscribe to it yet, you can read […]
Legend of Bill and Intelligent Life creator David Reddick has posted on Facebook that he’s tied the knot.Congratulations, David! My best to the both you and Dana.
ABC News talks to Lio and Heart of the City creator Mark Tatulli as well as B.C. cartoonist Mason Mastroianni about the shrinking comic page and how it’s affecting cartoonists. Mark mentions that his client list has lost 30 papers in the last 18 months. B.C.’s list has shrunk 5%, which is a big number […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Howie Noel of the great comic “Tara Normal” is here to talk with Lucas Turnbloom and me about his ongoing Kickstarter to fund the second book in the series, “Tara […]
Brian Basset’s Red and Rover turns 15 today. During those 15 years, Brian has nominated four times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society – three of those four in the last five years (2010, 2012, 2014). It won that category in 2012.Congratulations, Brian on the milestone.
The Simpsons writer, The Doozies creator and unquestionable Ernie Bushmiller fan (evidence here and here) Tom Gammill spied a comic strip props from this season’s Mad Men that included several Nancy strip by Ernie. Tom writes me:Fans of Mad Men may have noticed this season that copywriter Peggy Olson has Sunday comic strips taped to […]
The documentary Stripped by Directors Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder is now on Netflix. If you haven’t yet seen it queue it up and give it a watch.You can still buy it in DVD form. Head over to their site for details.
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Don’t get to say the word “legendary” all that often, but truly legendary animator Bill Plympton joins me to talk about his latest film, “Revengeance,” that he’s doing with animator […]