The Miami Herald has bucked the trend of cutting comics and has added four additional comics to their line-up. In all seven new strips were added. Three comics (For Better or For Worse, Barney and Clyde, and Shortcuts) were dropped. The new features starting in both the daily and Sunday pages include: Cul-de-Sac and The […]
Last week I posted links to several observations that Apple CEO, a buddhist by most accounts, was largely depicted at the Pearly Gates in the numerous obit cartoons. At least one cartoonist opted to recognize Jobs’ buddhist beliefs. Click the cartoon snippet below to see the full cartoon:
Last year Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan did a reboot of sorts taking his character Poncho back to year one. He’s now compiled all of those strips into a book. What’s interesting about the book is that it’s not a straight compilation. He’s reworked some of the punchlines so that it fits a more sequential […]
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall was commissioned to draw several cartoons for the movie “Ides of March” which involves a plot about a fictional presidential campaign. Here’s Ted’s email explaining his involvement. Earlier this year I received a phone call that led to one of the more interesting cartooning assignments of my career. The set designer […]
I reported a couple of years ago that Paul Gilligan’s Pooch Cafe had been optioned for a movie by Sony Pictures. The movie has now taken one step close with the hire of Kelly Asbury to write the adaptation. Kelly was the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet.
This is the Learn to Draw video shown at this last year’s Reuben Award weekend. It’s also Tom Gammill’s 30th episode. In this installment, Foxtrot creator Bill Amend teaches recently retired Cathy Guisewite what to do with all her spare time.
Fleen blogger Gary Tyrrell has been helping Mia Wiesner (of the University of Applied Sciences in Liepzig) conduct a study of purchasing attitudes for digital comic content. He’s posted initial findings and has a more in depth look at the implications of the numbers yesterday.Final statistic for you: the largest single age cohort in the […]
Today’s installment over at The Road to Syndication has King Feature Comic Editor Brendan Burford and Gil creator Norm Feuti talking about character dynamics.During the development period, we explored all of the different interactions that can occur between each of the characters. Norm was essentially forming his characters? personalities based on how they interacted with […]
Things must be somewhat settle. I haven’t seen many reports of comics being dropped/picked up in a while. There are a few to report. Michael Cavna reports that the Washington Post is now running Frazz in their Style section daily. Apparently Frazz was running in the KidsPost but not daily. The Post also moves Doonesbury […]
Just a quick announcement. My wife reminded my last night that The Daily Cartoonist turned 6 years old. The date’s a bit fuzzy. The first blog post was on October 5 – but that was on a free blogging account on Blogger. I purchased the domain on the 14th with the first news story soon […]
Chris Joseph takes a dour look at what he calls the seven most depressing comic strip characters in newspapers today. Sunday morning comics are a bit of a dying art form. Thanks mainly to the interwebs killing off the newspaper industry, reading the comics on a Sunday morning is becoming more and more a thing […]
Rip Haywire creator Dan Thompson will be releasing a graphic novel based on his comic at the end of this month. The book is entitled, Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa!You can check out samples of his book over on his web site. The book is a 112 page story of new material and […]
Dubbed the top 10 college newspaper comic by Online College Courses, the list includes Alex Cline’s Scrambled Eggs, John Vestevich, Rashad Baiyasi’s Comics by Rashad, Sean Polyn’s Shallow Grave, Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher and Deeper, Nate Beeler, Josh Ferrin, Bill Watterson, Tony Carillo’s F-Minus. You’ll note several of these individuals have gone on to bigger […]
Bloomingdale’s has licensed Beetle Bailey and Popeye the Sailor to be featured on a limited-edition merchandise line of clothing. From Oct. 1 through Jan. 31, Bloomingdale?s will have special boutiques dedicated to the major retail program in-store and will feature the product on bloomingdales.com. The Beetle Bailey and Popeye collection will feature 52 SKUs of […]
Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite is heading back to her hometown to be honored for “Voices: Extraordinary Women of Midland County.” The local paper interviewed her about this last year not doing the comic strip. Her strip a year ago yesterday.“It’s been a very weird, very great year, completely mothering my daughter through her last year […]