Eduardo Barreto, the former artist for the Judge Parker serial comic strip has passed away at the age of 57. He took over Judge Parker from Harold LeDoux in 2006 but had to end his association with the strip in 2010 after contracting meningitis. Previous to Judge Parker, he worked on several comic books such […]
The gentlemen over at The Cartoonist Studios have sent me more news about their second annual cartooning contest. The contest will kick off on February 6th and a big change from last year is that there will be more weight given to contest judges (panel of professional cartoonists and syndicate representative) and less on the […]
The always interesting and entertaining podcast interviewer Tom Racine talks to Pickles creator Brian Crane this week.Here’s the description of the show:Brian Crane, writer and artist of the great strip “Pickles” is with me today to talk about his road to syndication, how he goes about his daily business of bringing the funny old people […]
From Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot who writes about her writing process.Having secured two acceptable notebooks, I headed over to my favorite cafe. The requirements are this: 1) Not too quiet. Background noise helps me concentrate. If it’s too quiet my mind wanders away from the task at hand. College crowds are good ones- they […]
Mike Lynch took the time to scan photos of Jerry Robinson from various NCS events.
City Paper, a weekly in Philadelphia, is charging cartoonists to donate their cartoons AND pay $5 to submit cartoons for the annual Comics Issue. The collective $5 is then divied out to those cartoonists that are published.According to Jim Romenesko, the plan didn’t go over so well.I saw the one comment from a cartoonist who […]
About 50 cartoonists are featured in a new cookbook entitled, “Webcomics: What’s Cooking“. The book has 47 recipes with accompanying original cartoon art. They’ve posted five sample pages online.Below is the sample from Dog Eat Doug creator Brian Anderson.
Over at The Comics Journal Kristian Williams examines Mark Tatulli’s Lio collection There’s Corpses Everywhere: Yet Another Lio Collection and compares, contrasts and analyzes it against Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes collection “There’s Treasure Everywhere“.The comparison is not in Lio’s favor. Such are the hazards of parody, or even homage. Either way, the work announces: […]
Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ”Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute at […]
Eisner winner Shannon Wheeler recently took a trip to Portugal for a comic festival. He took a sketch book to record his trip that would start in New York City. His trip is being chronicled over on The Comics Journal. Day two is about his trip to the New Yorker office.
The Washintonian profiles Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten who is also co-writer of the comic strip Barney & Clyde.Weingarten may also be the best writer in American journalism. He?s the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing twice, once for the violinist story and once for a story about parents […]
From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves:“While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the strip, […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnson has been producing a volume of video podcasts (59 so far). It’s a trove of information for all things Lynn Johnson, her strip, and cartooning in general. If you’re in the earlier stages of a career in comics, there is a lot of good information on her […]
John Read’s One Fine Sunday exhibit will be opening in the Toonseum in Pittsburgh on December 9. The exhibit brings original cartoon art all drawn for the same Sunday (April 11) in 2010. ToonSeum Executive Director Joe Wos says he had to narrow the exhibit down to comics that run locally or he thinks should […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond has written about his experience working with ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham to create a new character for his comedy routine. The new character is AJ, the son of Achmed the Dead Terrorist.Early in the summer of 2010 I received a call from some gentlemen out in LA who represented world-famous […]