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MoCCA to honor Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith
The Society of Illustrators has named Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith as their guest of honor at this year’s MoCCA Arts Festival on April 6–7 which will also include an exhibition of his work. From King Features Syndicate: Bill Griffith’s earliest work debuted in New York’s underground press in 1969, appearing in venues including [...]
Posted on: Jan 25, 2013, Section: Alternative comics, Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Spain Rodriguez passes at age 72
Underground pioneering cartoonist Spain Rodriguez has passed away at the age of 72. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “He was an archetypal character, somewhere between crazy artist crossed with left-wing radical crossed with working-class Latino hood,” Crumb, who lives in France, said in a documentary made this year by Rodriguez’s wife, journalist and filmmaker Susan [...]
Posted on: Nov 29, 2012, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Paper cancelled comic because it calls Bud Light: “diluted horse piss” UPDATED
Comicsbeat reports that Karl Stevens’s comic page Failure was cancelled because the strip referred to Bud Light as “Diluted Horse Piss.” Anheuser-Busch, which makes Bud Light, is an advertiser in the paper. The strip has been in the alt weekly publication since 2005. As noted in the comments, Tom Spurgeon contacted the editor of the [...]
Posted on: Nov 28, 2012, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 13 Comments
Tom Tomorrow: Village Voice nuclear strike on career complete
Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of This Modern World is alerting fans and readers that the Village Voice is no longer running his cartoon. In a blog post he explains that the six month suspension of cartoons in the chain’s newspapers is now in its fourth year and had it not [...]
Posted on: Oct 8, 2012, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Matt Groening reflects on 32 years of Life in Hell
Great interview by Rob Tornoe talking to Life in Hell creator Matt Groening on the recent retirement of his strip. Among the gems is a disclosure on the real reason why Matt retired his strip and his reflections on the value of print comics: Sample: Have you always been a fan of print? I love [...]
Posted on: Aug 22, 2012, Section: Alternative comics, Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Matt Groening ends Life in Hell after 32 years
Despite great fame and fortune of creating and producing the longest running and most successful TV animation program in history, Matt Groening has quietly been drawing his alternative comic strip Life in Hell each week for 32 years. Until last week. He tell’s USA Today that the decision was to free up his time for [...]
Posted on: Jun 20, 2012, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 5 Comments
Profiled: Bob Harvey talks Bill Griffiths
Over at The Comics Journal Bob Harvey looks at Bill Griffith’s 25 years of doing Zippy the Pinhead. “After a year of appearing daily in a large American newspaper,” Griffith said, “I thought that was as weird as things were going to get for me. Little did I know they were going to get even [...]
Posted on: Sep 1, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Brian McFadden debuts as New York Times cartoonist
As announced last week, Brian McFadden was tapped to be the featured regular cartoonist for the rework of the New York Times’ Week in Review. His first comic was entitled “The State of Unemployment” and appeared yesterday. Michael Cavna interviewed Brian about the new arrangement: “I’ve been given a lot of leeway,” says McFadden, whose [...]
Posted on: Jun 27, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 4 Comments
SPJ awards dominated by alternative cartoonists
This year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards were dominated by alternative newspaper cartoonists. Stephanie McMillan’s work in the Sun-Sentinel/LA Times took the editorial cartooning in a newspaper with 100k+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the category for 50k-100k circulation. Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune was the [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 6 Comments
Village Voice releases The Comics Issue
This week’s edition of The Village Voice is their “The Comics Issue” containing 30 contributing artists to supplement the entire issue with comic frames, graphics and unique images. The issue focuses on the current state of cartooning. Ward Sutton did the cover and Roy Edroso writes the article “If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don’t [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 9 Comments
Lloyd Dangle talks about why he’s retiring Toubletown
Daryl Cagle has posted an interview with Toubletown creator Lloyd Dangle about his recent decision to retire his feature. Why are you ending “Troubletown” now, after 22 years? I have changed over 22 years, and the thrill is gone. Having to read so much news and opinion to stay on top of events is a [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom Tomorrow to become comics editor for Daily Kos
Dan Perkins, best known as Tom Tomorrow, has announced that his strip is leaving Salon.com as of today where it has run since the mid-90s to run his work on the Daily Kos and also serve as that site’s Comic Editor. He notes that as the newspaper industry contracts, there hasn’t been an inverse expansion [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2011, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 3 Comments
Festival of Cartoon Art notes: Jen Sorenson
Jen Sorenson is up now speaking about the “lighter side of impending doom” Jen Sorenson: showing a few of her cartoons. You can see Jen’s work here: http://bit.ly/9ZRvKm According to Jen Sorenson, if you want a cartoon to go viral, work in the topic of “iphone,” “palin,” or “Obama” Should alt weekly cartoons be considered [...]
Posted on: Oct 16, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Festival of Cartoon Art, Comments: 2 Comments
Mr. Media interviews Denis Kitchen
Bob Andelman, AKA Mr. Media has an excellent interview with Denis Kitchen. Denis is an underground cartoonist, publisher, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. This is a rare creative animal who has thrived in roles both creative and corporate, even if he met the latter challenge kicking and screaming all the way [...]
Posted on: Aug 30, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Cartoons, Comic history, Interviews, Comments: 0 Comments
Tom the Dancing Bug now on Boing Boing
Proving the cliche “where one door closes – another one opens” Ruben Bolling has announced that his comic Tom the Dancing Bug will now appear on Boing Boing less than a month after being dropped from Salon.com. Boing Boing is a popular aggregator of news and entertainment the describes itself as, “Media Culture Brainwash for [...]
Posted on: Apr 22, 2010, Section: Alternative comics, Comments: 0 Comments
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