Brian Walker, comic authority and historian is releasing a new book entitled, “The Comics: The Complete Collection.” Looks like a great book. That bit of gone and long ago would not be news to Brian Walker, son of Mort Walker, the cartoonist who created “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois.” What he doesn’t know about […]
GoComics.com has announced that comics running on their Comics Sherpa comics will do an April Fools Day switcheroo in the same vein as the now infamous Great April Fools’ Day Comics Switcheroonie back in 1997. Visit the Comics Sherpa portion of their site tomorrow to see which artists switched to which strips.The Great April Fools’ […]
Interesting story out of The Washington Post about a 14 year old Brazilian boy who is a regular fixture in the Sao Paulo Journal doing editorial cartoons. At Folha de Sao Paulo, or the Sao Paulo Journal, tradition holds that politicians exist to be skewered, whether they are the regional bosses in Brazil?s outback or […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has announced the winner of the 2011 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. Diana Huh, a sophomore at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is this year’s recipient. Diana Huh, is a sophomore at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she studies history. Huh was chosen from over 100 […]
Shannon Wheeler, creator of Too Much Coffee Man, has inked a three-book deal with Boom! Studios and Boom! Town. The three books include a graphic novel written by Simon Max Hill entitled “Grandpa Won’t Wake Up (due out this fall)”, a sequel to his rejected New Yorker cartoons collections (first collection sold out last year), […]
Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? Daniel Leanard, from Wheaton IL, is attempting a similar thing with Charles Schulz’ Peanuts except he’s removing the fourth panel instead of removing a character.You can see the results on his Tumblr.
Berkeley Breathed created a tailored made “special alternate-reality OPUS THE PEAHEN strip” for the FOX Network’s Fringe show which recently aired. You can see the full strip on Chris Ryall (IDW Publishing’s Publisher/Editor-in-Chief) blog.Via: Robot 6
Dilbert creator Scott Adams posted yesterday a response to an earlier blog post he wrote about men’s rights. The post inflamed feminists and spread virally through Twitter and blogs. The post was removed. Scott explains why he took it down and the reaction it caused for men and women’s groups.The short answer is that I […]
TIME magazine, which added Matthew Inman’s The Oatmeal to their best blogs of 2010, has posted an interview with him about his cartoons, blog and book 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides).You’ve drawn everything from riding polar bears to navigating awkward phone conversations. How do you […]
Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman’s Lagoon, is in The Bahamas this week to push for increased shark protections. He’ll also speak at various public forums and visit school children in Long Island and Nassau.“The Bahamas has something wonderful in its waters, something very few countries have,” said Toomey. “Because the government banned longline fishing, the […]
Lloyd Dangle has announced that he is ending Troubletown at the end of April after 22 years.That’s right folks, after twenty-two years I’ve decided to retire my comic strip. It’s been an agonizing decision but I’ve come to the conclusion that the time is right. I’ll be doing my last strip at the end of […]
Congrats to Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries, who is celebrating her features’s fifth year in syndication as of yesterday.On her blog, she’s looking back at what she’s learned in these last five years.In honor of the 5-year mark, here are the TOP 5 things that syndication has taught me: 5. Gut-wrenching heartache. Forget […]
Funny anecdote from The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID). A reader noticed the art work in The Elderberries had changed and asked the paper if a new artist had taken over. The syndicate reports that Corey Pandolph is still the cartoonist, but that Corey had changed the tools he used drawing the strip.“I decided it best […]
Prompted by his blog readers, Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote a post regarding Men?s Rights Activism. The post was take down, not before feminists made captured it. Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights: Get over it, you bunch of […]
Mark Buford, creator of Scary Gary, will be in the UK next week and while in Brighton he’ll be visiting with a cartoonists group called Cartoon County. They’ll record the visit in their podcast. I’m not 100%, but mindlessones.com appears to be where they post their podcasts.Enjoy the trip, Mark. Remember to drive on the […]