Jay Stephens and Bob Weber, Jr are ending Oh Brother! due to lack subscribing papers just after one year in syndication. The strip was launched June of 2010 by King Features.In an email to me, Bob writes:The Oh, Brother! syndication has ended. The comic failed to gain enough of a foothold. Obviously It didn’t help […]
Former San Diego Union-Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley’s lawsuit against his former paper is heading back to court after an appellate court reinstated it after it was thrown out in 2009. At issue is whether the newspaper threatened Steve Breen with his job if he continued to collaborate with Kelley on the comic strip Dustin […]
Hard to argue with this logic.Rob Miller writes pop culture commentary for the Norwich Bulletin
Anne Hambrock who works on her husband’s strip The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has announced that she’s organized a new comic festival called the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. The project started when Carthage College Gallery Director inquired about bringing John Read’s “One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages” to Kenosha and Anne opted to […]
IO9’s Cyriaque Lamar caught up with Bone creator Jeff Smith to talk about his 20th anniversary and RASL. When did you know you could keep going with the series? The first issue of Bone shipped 20 years ago this month, so this is our twentieth anniversary. I think it was really when we made the […]
King Features Syndicate has rolled out a new design for their corporate website. The new design is a great improvement over their older site. Better navigation and layout.Those hoping to read their favorite comics on the site however will be disappointed. You still need to subscribe to their DailyInk or download their DailyInk app for […]
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts may hit the big screen. Hollywood Reporter reports Patrick and his brother Robert have been hired to write the script for a feature-length film to be released through 20th Century Fox.
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is self publishing a new book entitled, “The Mad Art of Caricature!.” The book is 170+ pages and contains hundreds of illustrations, step-by-step techniques, tips, and in-depth theories on the art caricature. Book ships in September, but he’s taking pre-orders now with options of signed copies, copies with original art […]
title: Bill Kellogg launches ComicsShowcase.comBill Kellogg, the marketing/sales guy behind Tundra and the new Ink Bottle Syndicate has launched a new website called ComicsShowcase.com “where comics fans can go to view strips they might not otherwise see.” Bill writes, [Comics Showcase] is different from the other sites like Comics Sherpa, etc. in that the cartoonists […]
Alex Hallatt is using her strip Arctic Circle to bring attention to the environmental issue of fracking. Fracking is the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break up rock formations and release natural gas which is then collected. Environmentalists are concerned that the process is contaminating water and causing other […]
This year’s John Locher memorial award went to JR Fruto at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. JR is a senior at the university where he is the cartoonist for the paper Daily Tar Heel. As the winner, JR attended this year’s AAEC convention earlier this month. Below are a couple of his […]
Interesting presentation by Lynn Johnston regarding her strip For Better or For Worse that she gave at the Charles M. Schulz museum this spring.For more insights into her strip, she’s posting notes (think footnotes) to each daily comic on her website.
At this year’s HeroesCon Mike Rhode moderated a panel of cartoonists Jim Scancarelli (Gasoline Alley), Marcus Hamilton (Dennis the Menace), Alex Saviuk (Spider-man) and Joe Staton (Dick Tracy) on the topic taking over an established, classic comic strip. Here’s the link to the audio of the panel. I was unable to get it to play, […]
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar) has had his day in court and didn’t come away the winner. A Malaysian court has upheld the ban on two of his cartoon books that were banned and confiscated in 2010 on the grounds that they threatened public order.Mr Zulkifli said the judge did not specify how […]
I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before, but Sergio Aragones will have his own monthly title through Matt Groenings’s Bongo comics. Entitled Sergio Aragones Funnies, the first edition hits stores next week on the 20th and on newsstands on August 9th.From the press release:Mr Aragon’es became a regular featured artist and writer in Bart Simpson […]