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Discussion: Which cartoonists belong on Rushmore
Over on the Washington Post, columnist Gene Weingarten and his readers discuss which four cartoonists deserve placement on a Mt. Rushmore of cartoonists. The reader offered up Walt Kelly and Charles Schulz. Weingarten suggested that Schulz shouldn’t be there, but Gary Larson and Garry Trudeau should be.
What’s your take? Only four spots available. Also add [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Comments: 35 Comments
King Features launches comic web application
King Features has released a new embed-able comic application called Comics Kingdom that allows any newspaper to deploy a comic page easily. The application allows users to view a 30 day archive of King’s comics, ability to rate and comment on a comic, zoom in for a larger view, and to add the page to [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2008, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Web Sites, Comments: 5 Comments
This week’s comic page changes
Here are the comic pages that I’ve found this last week.
The Detroit News has added Keith Knight’s The Knight Life to it’s line up.
The News Tribune, (Tacoma, WA) is adding Zits, Baby Blues, and Pooch Cafe. To make room, Mary Worth, B.C. and World of Wonder are being dropped. The paper said the change was [...]
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 10 Comments
Mark Heath ends ‘Spot the Frog’
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has announced that he is ending his comic strip about six months shy of its fifth anniversary. The last day for dailies is July 5th with the last Sunday running June 29th. He says that lack of client newspapers is the reason behind his decision.
Posted on: May 12, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 10 Comments
Get a first year Garfield original for $5k
Ted Dawson over at “Three Men in a Tub” blog reports that an original Garfield comic strip is for sale an eBay store for $4,499. The seller writes that it is thought to be the 25th strip published in papers and one of the earliest Garfield originals to be sold publicly.
Disclaimer: With all auctions, online [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Auctions, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 9 Comments
Two Peanuts cartoons auctioned for $106,270
Two original Peanuts comics strips were auctioned off at Philip Weiss Auctions, according to E&P, for a combined total of $106,270. The two comics - one daily (selling for $52,110), one Sunday (selling for $54,160) prominently picture Snoopy. They were dated 1957 and 1962 respectively.
Just six months ago, an original Sunday dating 1955 sold for [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Auctions, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
Hagar picked up in Switzerland (again)
It’s not often that I get to report on comic page changes outside of the United States, but Hagar the Horrible was recently picked up by a free daily called “.ch” When the Swiss newspaper “Blick” redesigned the paper, it dropped Hagar for lack of space and .ch picked it up. .ch is a free [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2008, Section: Comic strips, International, Comments: 4 Comments
News Briefs for May 8, 2008
» Scott Adams’ blog has been moved to his newly redesigned web site. Check it out at dilbert.com/blog/
» Bleeker creator Jonathan Mahood is featured on the Sunday Funnies podcast.
» TDC regular, InkSwig founder, Dawn Douglass has set up a new forum to discuss new and upcoming comics, or as she writes, “Wet Ink is an [...]
Posted on: May 8, 2008, Section: Blogs, Comic strips, Podcasts, Comments: 0 Comments
Does a syndicate matter in today’s world?
Fleen has posted the first an interview with webcomic creator and author Dave Kellett on the importance and relevance of print syndication in today’s comic marketplace compared to going it alone in webcomics. Dave shares his experience as a professional webcomicker and as one having a syndicate contract to run his feature Sheldon on [...]
Posted on: May 8, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Syndicates, web comics, Comments: 12 Comments
Ed Stein ends Denver Square
Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein has announced that he will be ending his local daily comic strip Denver Square on May 21st. The feature, which first appeared in January of 2007, was an opportunity to explore an average middle-class family living in Denver without getting into politics, according to Ed.
Regarding the reason for [...]
Posted on: May 8, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 11 Comments
Sorenson, Bolling signing books in NYC
Slowpoke creator Jen Sorenson and Tom the Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling will be at The Tank in New York City on May 14 to talk about their comics and sign books. Jen will also present a slideshow of her work. Admission is free.
UPDATE: Jen writes in to clarify that Ruben will also be [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
Changes across the funny pages
Here’s around up of some of the changes that have been reported in the last two weeks on various paper’s comics pages.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids IA) is running a comic survey. First one in 20 years.
Newcomer DeFlocked replaces The Buckets in The Free Press (London, Canada).
After 500+ votes, Pooch Cafe and Rex Morgan were dropped [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 4 Comments
Review: “Deflocked” by Jeff Corriveau
Title:
Deflocked
Creator:
Jeff Corriveau
Syndicate:
King Features
Launch Date:
May 5, 2008
Rating (out of 5):
King Features launched it’s second feature of the year yesterday with Deflocked by Jeff Corriveau. The feature sports a cast of four characters, a wayward sheep named Mamet, Cobb, the morally centered dog, Rupert a naive, but devoted companion, and Tucker a “peculiar” boy raised by the [...]
Posted on: May 6, 2008, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 33 Comments
News Briefs for May 5, 2008
» The Beat has your Free Comic Book Day round up.
» Webcomic PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) has partnered with the AfterCollege network to post career and job information to its comic subscribers.
» Tom Richmond reviews Axiotron’s Modbook vs. Cintiq 12 WX for those who draw directly into the computer.
» E&P mentions that Ticonderoga Cartoon [...]
Posted on: May 5, 2008, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Museums, Comments: 0 Comments
Chron features Jeff Millar, Bill Hinds
The Houston Chronicle has a nice write up about Tank McNamara co-creators Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds. Both cartoonists live in the Houston area, but as the article notes, they rarely see each other.
Millar e-mails the dialogue, with whatever description he thinks is needed. For the first panel he’ll write: “1.” For the second panel, [...]
Posted on: May 5, 2008, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
