OB Rag (Ocean Beach, CA) interviews La Cucaracha creator Lalo Alcaraz. A couple of things I didn’t know about Lalo: He has a weekly radio program in L.A. and is a faculty member at Otis College of Art & Design.Al Carlos interviews Lalo about his beginnings and how his cartooning focus has changed over the […]
The Farley Foundation is a Canadian charity that helps raise money for Veterinarians to provide services for animals of lower income individuals. Lynn Johnston’s Farley character has been the mascot since 2001. Here’s a video of Lynn explaining her involvement and the Farley plush toy.I want one of those plush Farleys! If you do too, […]
GoComics.com announces that starting tomorrow the Pibgorn “Mozart and the Demon Lover” story-line will kick off but will include Brooke McEldowney’s running commentary. Think of it as the director’s notes on a DVD extra.
Yesterday I kicked off the annual donation drive with the goal to raising the equivalent of a minimum wage compensation ($7.25/hr). At the end of the yesterday I tallied it up, divided by the estimated number of hours per year and came up with $1.45/hour. Which isn’t bad as that is approximately 20% of the […]
If you haven’t made it a weekly read, I encourage you to bookmark and visit the Gil “Road to Syndication” blog maintained by King Features editor Brendan Burford and Gil (and Retail) creator Norm Feuti. This week they’re talking about how to take a rough character (Gil’s father) that worked well on the web and […]
I found a couple changes for this week:The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is now the guest cartoonist in the Seattle Times. Dustin has replaced Peanuts in a paper that belongs to the KPC News chain in Indiana. It’s hard to tell from the joint news site, so Dustin is in one or more of […]
Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot is on her way to Haiti to join 450 other volunteers for Habitat for Humanity. The group plans to build 100 homes in Leogane. Due to lack of internet, she plans to tweet her experiences. I’m posting her initial ones below (most recent to older tweets):This build is on land […]
I skipped the donation drive last year. I spent quite a lot of time reflecting if the blog was the best use of my time. Quite honestly for several weeks I considered walking away – even going as far as researching how to sell the blog and writing a draft announcing that it was going […]
Michael Cavna writes about the cartoon that the Occupy Wall Street ran in their own newspaper. As The Post’s Elizabeth Flock has noted, Freedom Plaza’s Occupy D.C. protestors on Tuesday published their own “official” newspaper, titled The Occupied Washington Post . (No affiliation to our humble news outlet up the street, natch.) And on Page-6 […]
ABTech profiles one of their alum, Chris Sparks, who is leading the Team Cul de Sac project to raise money for Parkinsons Disease research. The Cul de Sac project solicited original art from notable cartoonists to be auctioned off as well as sell a book collection of the art that is due out next spring.In […]
Misery Loves Sherman creator (and Eisner and Harvey award nominee) Chris Eliopoulos has penned (or typed) a must read for anyone working their way up in the comic industry. The topic – not how to break into comics, but how to stay.If you’re good enough, you’re not good enough. I hear so many people wanting […]
South by South West (SXSW), the media, interactive and music festival in Austin Texas, has announced the panels for this upcoming conference and includes two panels. The first is entitled “How Comics Journalism is Saving Your Media” and will feature two comic journalists Matt Bors and Susie Cagle along with Sarah Jaffe and Erin Polgreen. […]
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been spreading to cities across the U.S. Occupiers congregated in Oakland CA on Oct. 10 and comic journalist Susie Cagle decided to cover the protest and create a five-part series to run locally and nationally documenting the Oakland participants. Her work is being funded through Spot Us – a […]
The Daily Herald profiles editorial cartoonist and former Dick Tracy cartoonist Dick Locher.Locher said Sunday that after working so long in newspapers, it pains him to see the industry in so much trouble today, especially when it comes to political cartoonists. “It won’t stay that way,” he said, adding that “a smart editor somewhere will […]
Mark Stokes has posted another gem – this time a copy of a Peanuts panel by Charles Schulz that reveals his original pencil work. You can see how often he rearranged Charlie Brown and Luci to get the composition where he wanted them. Going through the process of developing a panel for a strip can […]