Franklin Fibbs co-creator Wes Hargis is another cartoonist with art in the iTunes App Store. Wes illustrated Weird Al’s When I Grow Up book and did the artwork for the accompanying iPhone/iPod app.Over on the Three Men in a Tub blog, he’s posted some of the art that didn’t make it into the app. You […]
The Comics Journal reviews Fantagraphics’ soon to be release of “Willie & Joe: Back Home” – the follow up book to the 700 page + “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years” collection. The first year or so of his post WWII strips continue to follow Willie and Joe in civilian life. Willie is back with […]
Here are the results of the survey that ran last Thursday. Here in 2011 – nearly a decade and a half after newspaper’s began putting content on line for free – the results aren’t that surprising.In my household, we subscribe to a paper (I started the subscription the day the Rocky Mountain News closed), but […]
Brian Fies was one the organizers for the second annual Comics & Medicine 2011 conference in Chicago. He’s posted a thorough run down of the conference on his blogKaren and I made it home from the second international “Comics & Medicine” conference in Chicago–or, as one of our participants called it, “the Coolest Conference on […]
The Irish Times reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an honorary doctorate for his cartooning career by the University College Dublin.
\MAD Magazine has launched a blog called “The Idiotical.” It has the same line of humor as the magazine but the content is heavy on Photoshopped images.
Jeff Keane wrapped up 2 terms as President of the National Cartoonists Society. Only three other individuals in the history of the society have served more than one term. Jeff was gracious enough to submit to a few questions reviewing his tenure.Alan: Of the 34 presidents so far, only four have served more than one […]
On the topic of the cost for an online NYT or WSJ account, Mike Lester asked in the comments how people got their news and comics – online. Rather than have that question buried in the comments, I’ve created a survey. I’ll post the results in a tomorrow.Poll closed. See the results.
Richard Gehr interviews here for The Comics Journal.GEHR: When did you first approach The New Yorker? CHAST: In April of ?78 I was still living at home with my parents, which was not good. I don?t think they wanted me there any more than I wanted to be there, but I didn?t know what else […]
Anton Emdin, the winner of this year’s NCS Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has created a new feature called Shrinks Comics which is described as, “The concept is simple. Send in a question that you would like answered. A celebrity will answer you, and I will illustrate the whole thing. If you send in a photo […]
File this one in the must-have category: The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010Here’s Amazon’s description.Al Jaffee’s ‘Fold-Ins’, which have graced the back page of “MAD Magazine” since 1964, have become an icon of American humour, issue after issue, year after year, each fold-in requires the reader to simply fold tab A to tab B to reveal […]
After months of delays and becoming a running joke “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will finally open tonight. Here’s a run-down of some of the press it’s gettting: T.V. Carpio, the woman playing the villainess Arachne is interviewed on some of the difficulties the production went through to get to tonight. The Empire State building […]
Tom Racine interviews Rex Morgan, M.D. and Sunshine State cartoonist Graham Nolan on Tall Tale Radio. Topics include his work in comic strips, comic books, and everything his webcomic Sunshine State.
The Ledger, (Lakeland, FL) has added four comics to their comic line-up. They conducted a reader survey that yielded more than 1,200 responses. The new comics include Between Friends , Dustin , Pearls Before Swine and Sherman’s Lagoon. The article didn’t mention which strips were dropped, but mentioned the low vote getters were Sally Forth […]
MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond took the helm of the National Cartoonists Society this year. He has big shoes to fail. Tom succeeds Jef Keane who lead the organization for 2 two year terms. He’s been a member of the professional organization since 1998. I asked him a few questions regarding his new role as […]