Steve Skelton has announced that he has decided to hang up his 2 Cows and a Chicken feature that has been running on GoComics. Steve tells me his goal with the strip has always been to land a syndicate contract, but despite some interest by a syndicate, he can no longer dedicate the 25 hours […]
Great news from Joe Wos, founder and Executive Director of Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum. The little museum has announced that it will triple its size to allow for additional exhibits, a permanent collection display, reading rooms and expanded office space and storage.The ToonSeum was founded in 2007 and moved to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to its […]
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph in WV has added Chad Carpenter’s Tundra to their line up and posts an interview about Chad and his strip.
This last weekend was the Baltimore Comic-Con! and with it the announcing of the Harvey Award winners. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau beat out Ruben Bolling, Patrick McDonnell, Wiley Miller and Richard Thompson in the Best Syndicated Strip or Panel category. HARK! A VAGRANT creator Kate Beaton took the best online comic artist.The rest of the […]
Sid Friedfertig has posted a treasury of rare Superman comic strips that ran between 1959 and 1966. As he explains, Superman first appeared as a daily comic strip in 1939 and ran through 1966 but most of the strips from about 1944 have not been reprinted. DC Comics and nostalgia publications have reprinted the first […]
Eddie Murphy has signed on to voice a revival of the short-lived Hanna-Barbera cartoon Hong Kong Phooey . The 1970’s TV show is based on a dog named Penry who is a “kung-fu fighting superhero who doubles as a janitor at a police station”.According to the IMDB, Murphy is the only talent cast so far. […]
Terri Libenson’s The Pajama Diaries is now found in book form. This is the first collection of the strip that debuted in 1996. Entitled The Pajama Diaries: Deja To-Do!, the book is a collection of Terri’s favorite daily and Sunday strips.
If you’re a Scary Gary fan, you may know that Mark Buford has a book coming out. The book is entitled, “A Good Severed Head Is Hard to Find.” What you may not know is that right now Mark is taking pre-orders and Mark will be signing every copy that’s pre-ordered before September 1. Every. […]
Apparently not to be outdone by Lynn Johnston’s video I posted this morning about her memories of Charles Schulz (or ‘cuz writing profanity filled comics is less time consuming than coming up with something witty), Stephan Pastis has taken the time to post his own video remembering Lio creator Mark Tatulli.
Via Mike Lynch
Jon Carroll writing for the San Francisco Chronicle writes his fond memories of the great Pogo strip.Pogo had it all: love, fear, friendship, ambivalence, pails of water, morality, plus a love of high-flown language and, not incidentally, wonderful draftsmanship. Kelly was a master of getting a lot of stuff in one small panel. … One […]
Last week I posted a letter to the editor by a certain offended reader of the Baltimore Sun who decried the profanity in Pearls Before Swine. Just to be clear, we’re not talking real swear words – we’re talking characters like @#$@. Then on Sunday, Scott Hilburn drops the big #%@!* in his strip. Yesterday […]
Following up to the letter to the editor I posted last week expressing disgust with “profanity” in Pearls Before Swine, here’s this one by The Argyle Sweater’s Scott Hilburn posted on the GoComics blog that is just as flagrant. It’s just a matter of time before we start hearing our young children yelling obscenities like, […]
An long but interesting read by Daniel Best about the $1 million purchase of a near complete Archie original art collection drawn by Bob Montana by Diamond Distributor’s Steve Geppi.When art deals go wrong they generally go wrong due to the money involved. Virtually anyone who collects art can tell stories of paying too much […]
The Herald-Sun in Durham, NC has posted news that they are replacing Shoe with The Born Loser and brining back the Family Circus (replacing Bizarro). The editor cites saving money as one of the reasons for making the change.