Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo has a fascinating find:Picture this. A monk. A monk in a high tower. In the monk?s hand is a writing instrument that today would be found behind glass in a museum. What?s this lonesome scribe writing? There?s parchment on the unevenly carved desk in front of him, and on it […]
A Nashville entrepreneur is trying to launch a weekly 6-page comic page delivered via mail.From the press release: Seeking to preserve a uniquely American art form, Nashville based media entrepreneur Logan Sekulow announced the launch of Laugh-O-Gram?, a weekly, family friendly comic strip only newspaper delivered by mail. Acknowledging the importance of grassroots support, Sekulow […]
Another sad news item.From the National Cartoonists Society: The NCS is sad to announce the passing of ?Berry?s World? cartoonist James O. ?Jim? Berry on Friday, March 20th at 83. After dabbling with a cartoon strip on his ship?s newsletter while serving in World War II, Jim left a career in business management in 1961 […]
A 1988 Larry King radio interview with Charles M. Schulz:Via: Mike Lynch
Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of several artists and creative individuals featured in a new documentary about the creative process called “From Nothing, Something.”Here’s the film’s description from their website:This fast-paced, funny, inspiring doc explores the common techniques, habits and neuroses that lead to breakthrough […]
From Breitbart:Each year, the Free Press Society of Denmark gives out the Sappho Award ? a prize for courage in the advocacy of free speech, named after the Greek poet who serves as the Society?s icon. This year?s winner is cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has been dealing with death threats from Muslims in Europe ever […]
Sad news from King Features who reports that Mandrake the Magician cartoonist Fred Fredericks recently passed. I’m not finding wide-spread news about his passing, but according to Wikipedia, he passed on March 10.From KFS:MANDRAKE creator Lee Falk originally drew his Mandrake strip himself but soon turned the job over to artist Phil Davis, who illustrated […]
Astérix co-creator Albert Uderzo donated a storyboard from the 1971 Astérix and the Laurel Wreath for auction.From The New York Times:PARIS ? An original Astérix comic book page fetched 150,000 euros, or about $160,000, at a sale at Christie?s here, with all the proceeds going to the families of those killed in the attack on […]
The New York Times obituary of Dondi cartoonist Irwin Hasen:Irwin Hasen, the cartoonist and comic-book artist who drew, and helped create, ?Dondi,? the widely syndicated comic strip about a lovable, wide-eyed World War II orphan, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 96.The Times describes his life as an iconic or stereotypical New York City […]
Tom Racine’s latest Tall Tale Radio podcast episode is now available. Head over to Tall Tale Radio and give it a listen. In this episode: Tall Tale Radio has a case of “Pac Man Fever!” First off, Mary Varn of “NPC Comic,” joins us to give us her impressions of the huge video game convention, […]
Celebrating 30 years of Luann, GoComics has posted an interview with Luann creator Greg Evans and his daughter, Karen. What can readers expect in the future? GE: I hate to admit this, but in 30 years of doing the strip, I never thought much past lunchtime. Now that my daughter Karen is helping with plotting, […]
In 2012, Jen Sorenson published ?An Open Letter To The Supreme Court About Health Insurance.? The comic was widely distributed and for it she was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for editorial cartooning. Yesterday, she published a second biographical piece about a friend’s experience being date-raped in college during the 1970s and […]
The title is of a recent Wall Street Journal article (‘Calvin and Hobbes’: America’s Most Profound Comic Strip) is perhaps a bit hyperbolic. I’m not sure it’s the most profound, but certainly one of.Here’s the money quotes with my thoughts: ?Calvin and Hobbes? would have faced big challenges if Mr. Watterson had decided to carry […]
Universal Uclick has launched a new website to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes. On the site you can buy Calvin and Hobbes books, reprints and the book, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes An Exhibition Catalogue. The new book is the catalogue for Bill’s exhibition at the Billy […]
Charles Brubaker wrote an interesting piece over at Cartoon Research about the attempts to make The Wizard of Id into an animated TV show. I always considered The Wizard of Id to be one of my big cartooning influence. I always had a thing for Johnny Hart?s dry sense of humor, and I consider Brant […]