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Comic books make great movies, comic strips not so much
Augusta Chronicle Columnist Steven Uhles looks at the recent success of comic books characters raking it in at the box office and how comic strip characters have struggled to translate on the big screen. He looks at some of the notable attempts with Dick Tracy, Popeye, Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, and Annie. It is, I [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 9 Comments
Two spiked comic strips you may not have seen
Michael Cavna reports that the Washington Post pulled a recent Zits because it was “mite too graphic and gruesome as breakfast-table fare“. Zits co-creator Jim Borgman wrote on the Zits blog, “sometimes we push the envelope on purpose, but we never saw this one coming.” This Arctic Circle strip by Alex Hallatt was killed by [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Watch Matt Bors Herblock acceptance speech
The Herblock Award was last week in which Matt Bors was honored for his editorial cartooning. Below is his speech. Michael Cavna attended and has posted a write-up.
Posted on: May 14, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
How you can shade four cartoons in 7 minutes
I always enjoy Mark Anderson’s videos. This one is how he does shading with Prismacolor cool grey markers. Check out his blog too for a few more interesting tidbits on the paper he uses and the size that he draws (spoiler!: small).
Posted on: May 14, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 5 Comments
Bill Rechin family to retire Crock
Kevin Rechin, son of Crock co-creator Bill Rechin, had decided to retire his father’s strip which he took over shortly before his father passed away of esophageal cancer last year. A quote from Kevin in The Free Lance-Star: “It’s very hard,” he said. “I still go back and forth. In my gut, I want to [...]
Posted on: May 10, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 12 Comments
Happy birthday american editorial cartooning
Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial cartoon in the Americas. It was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette as a rallying cry unity among the colonies. May the profession continue for many more years and cartoons with labels many more years beyond [...]
Posted on: May 9, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 5 Comments
Interviewed: Jonathan Mahood and Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog
Bob Andelman (AKA Mr. Media) interviews Bleeker: The Rechargeable Dog creator Jonathan Mahood: Audio Excerpt: JONATHAN MAHOOD: “With newspaper comics, it’s got to be easy for the reader to get on board. I got my first iPod and I was sitting outside with my dog. I was thinking about how these two things follow me [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Ruben Bolling launches Inner Hive
Ken Fisher (AKA Ruben Bolling) has announced that he’s created a monetizing effort called the “Inner Hive” to fans of his comic Tom the Dancing Bug. Tom the Dancing Bug was originally conceived as a newspaper comic strip, and you may have heard about the financial problems newspapers have had over the past few years. [...]
Posted on: May 7, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 1 Comment
Analysis: Mark Trail v marijuana growers
Cyriaque Lamar has a funny piece on last month’s Mark Trail story-line about finding Mark going “John Rambo on marijuana farmers.” I admit, I missed the whole story and am not that familiar with the strip as a whole, but she makes a good point about how much wildlife is peppered throughout the strip. But [...]
Posted on: May 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Antique Roadshow evaluates a 1930s Buck Rogers original
Watch Web Appraisal:1930s Buck Rogers Comic Strip by Dick Calkins on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.
Posted on: May 1, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Scott Adams posts killed Dilbert strip about Apple’s lust dust
Scott Adams on a recently killed Dilbert strip: My editor thinks this comic is inappropriate for newspapers. He might be right. You won’t see this one published anywhere else.
Posted on: Apr 30, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 9 Comments
Newspapers react positively to Funky Winkerbean gay prom story-line
Today kicks off a four-week story-line in Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean around the topic of a gay couple wanting to attend prom together. I reviewed the series last week. I’ve scanned the news this morning looking for newspapers who are telling their readers that they’ve pulled the strip or moved it off the comics pages, [...]
Posted on: Apr 30, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 5 Comments
Gil Thorp retrospective planned
For those in the Connecticut area: Gil Thorp, popularly regarded as an “always trying to do the right thing” kind of guy, has been known throughout the area, and beyond, for more than half a century. And now, fans of the “Milford High coach” and those who would like to get acquainted will have an [...]
Posted on: Apr 27, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Check out comics page from 1947
Herald Journal comic page from 1947 I found this Herald Journal comics page from 1947 from a link provided by Tom Spurgeon. I think Tom’s point was the use of the word “butthead” in the Archie comic strip. As I looked at the page, a couple of things strike me. Despite having a much large [...]
Posted on: Apr 27, 2012, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 10 Comments
NYT: The sports cartoon is dying
Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. [...]
Posted on: Apr 25, 2012, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Newspaper industry, Comments: 5 Comments
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