Comic Book Resources interviews Richard Thompson about his comic Cul de Sac, his influences, and his Team Cul de Sac that is raising money for Parkinson’s Research. Much of the strip’s humor comes from the fact that many of the characters have their own unique worldview. Sometimes it?s Alice and Dill and Beni misunderstanding and […]
ComicsDC blogger and City Paper columnist Mike Rhode reports that the Washington City Paper has brought back it’s comics that it dropped back in 2008. The new line up will include two long-time contributors to City Paper, Derf and Shawn Belschwender with The City and Clowntime respectively and two strips new to City Paper readers: […]
This last fall at the triennial Festival of Cartoon Art at the OSU, Sheldon creator Dave Kellett gave an entertaining lecture on the future of comics from his vantage point as a professional webcomic cartoonist. His approach to the topic was to offer a response to Bill Watterson’s infamous “The Cheapening of Comics” speech given […]
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly had not one but two articles profiling her this weekend. The Daily Camera writes about her new book “When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman” and the Poughkeepsie Journal delves into her marriage with fellow New Yorker cartoonist Michael Maslin
I’ve mentioned Team Cul de Sac before (see link for back story). Artists are starting to submit their artwork and Chris Sparks and Mike Rhode have created a blog to show case them.As of today they’ve got work from Mo Willems, Mark Anderson, Lynn Johnston, Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Shannon Gallant, and David Hagen.Check it out.
The reviews keep coming. This time a review in cartoon form by Ward Sutton.
Ronald Searle has sold 2,000 sketches, 50 books of drawings and lithographs – the bulk of his original artwork – to a German museum who paid 1 million Euros ($1.4 million). The work spans six decades.
Editorial cartoonist Dick Locher is ending a 32 career working on the Dick Tracy comic strip. This Sunday is the last strip with Locher as the writer. The local ABC station interviewed Dick. Video is below.
Terry Laban, co-creator of Edge City, is launching new online graphic novel entitled, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard Boiled Shaman. Here’s how he describes it:The mean streets of LA have nothing on the frigid forests of Siberia when it comes to danger, and Muktuk Wolfsbreath needs all his shamanic power s to deal with the wicked women, […]
The big change is now official. The Comics Journal has relaunched its web edition. This site is divided into several sections which will continue to grow over the days and weeks and months to come: Feature articles, including lengthy interviews, investigative journalism, and long-form critical and historical essays; regular columns on a variety of subjects; […]
Tom Gammill is back – this time at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
Comic book and Rex Morgan, M.D. artist Graham Nolan has announced that his webcomic Sunshine State has been picked up for syndication, but hasn’t announced with which. Launch date is in the May/June timeline and if I had to guess, I’d say it will be through King Features. Either way, Congrats Graham! There are a […]
Ed Power and Melissa DeJesus’ My Cage is back. The short run comic that run through King Features Syndicate is now re-running on GoComics.com as of yesterday. Ed tells me that if there is enough positive response, new comics will be posted. Melissa re-colored the first 2 months of daily strips. The first week had […]
MAD Mag cartoonist Tom Richmond was once again tapped to create this year’s NCS Reuben art for the brochure. He writes:Having just received my official 2011 NCS Reuben’s Weekend brochure in the mail yesterday, I would say it’s okay to share the artwork I did for it and this year’s Reuben’s T-Shirt. NCS president Jeff […]
I mentioned earlier that Hilary Price had competed on a improve cartooning show for a gallon of milk – which she won. A couple more notable syndicated cartoonists have now competed on the same show (Fistcuff): Rina Piccolo and Dan Piraro. Rina has photos from the event. The other two cartoonists were New Yorker cartoonists […]