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Nine more cartoonist off to Germany on USO tour
Jeff Bacon emailed me to tell me that another USO tour is planned for nine cartoonist to visit wounded troops. The dispatched cartoonist include Bruce Higdon (team leader), Mason Mastroianni, Chad Carpenter, Ray Alma, Dave Mowder, Ed Steckley, Tom Stiglich, Stephen Silver and Rob Harrell. The trip is scheduled for April 26-30 and the cartoonist [...]
Posted on: Mar 19, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
How to draw Cul de Sac’s Alice really fast
First it was Scott Stantis, now Richard Thompson has posted a quick draw.
Posted on: Mar 17, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 11 Comments
ABCNews: Newspapers are cutting comics
John Berman and Joel Siegel reporters have posted a story on ABC News’ World News site reporting the loss of comic strips in newspapers throughout the country.
No matter how bad the news, no matter how grim the headlines, you could always count on a smile from at least one corner of the daily newspaper: the [...]
Posted on: Mar 17, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 36 Comments
Manley talks about the art of Judge Parker strip
Mike Manley talks to Comics Riff about taking over the art of the Judge Parker serial.
MC: So you were already very familiar with his style. Can you speak to adapting to his style — and the constraints of a continuity comic strip?
MM: Eduardo and I have very similar influences artistically. It’s all a little restricting [...]
Posted on: Mar 16, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 6 Comments
Chris Sharron wins Charles M. Schulz Award
Chris Sharron, a senior cartoonist for the Daily Kent Stater in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at Kent State University, earned a coveted National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The National Journalism Awards honor the best work in the communications industry and journalism education each year.
Chris will receive $10,000 and [...]
Posted on: Mar 15, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
NYT: Surge of republications of comics is awesome
Douglas Wolk, writing for the New York Times, writes about the surge of comic strip republications lately.
As the modern-day American newspaper comic strip slowly chokes to death, done in by shrinking spaces and exhausted franchises, its more vibrant ancestors are living in renewed luxury. Comic strips are the most ephemeral kind of art; each installment [...]
Posted on: Mar 12, 2010, Section: Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 36 Comments
New Shrek Forever After trailer online
Movie to debut on May 21 in #d theaters and IMAX 3D.
Posted on: Mar 12, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
The Phantom miniseries slated for SyFy channel
A Phantom four hour mini-series is set to air in June on the SyFy channel.
While still based on the classic comic strip hero created by Lee Falk, the new miniseries radically updates The Phantom’s traditional costume and setting. The miniseries first aired in Canada at the end of December and has finally been put on [...]
Posted on: Mar 11, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Television, Comments: 18 Comments
New Mediagazer site to cover media
The same folks (Gabe Rivera) responsible for Techmeme and Memeorandum have launched Mediagazer. The sites aggregate links to articles and present them in a headlines listing format. Techmeme specializes in technology, Memorandum in politics, and now Mediagazer specializes in media coverage.
The article making the introduction is here.
In addition to using an algorithm to aggregate the [...]
Posted on: Mar 10, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Comments: 2 Comments
Review: Stayed Tooned! issue 5
Just finished reading the latest issue of John Read’s Stay Tooned! magazine. Once again, John does an excellent job. This issue covers Roz Chast, Jack and Carole Bender (Alley Oop), John Hambrock (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee), Joe Bluhm, Justin Thompson (MythTickle), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois), Jeff Koterba and Don Hagist. [...]
Posted on: Mar 10, 2010, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Magazines, Comments: 6 Comments
Mr. Media interviews Hilary Price
I posted the podcast interviews with Cavna and Gilchrist earlier and completely forgot this one. Go listen to Bob Andelman’s (AKA Mr. Media) interview with Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price.
Or listen below.
Posted on: Mar 9, 2010, Section: Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment
Podcast interviews: Mike Cavna and Guy Gilchrist
Two podcast interviews of note: Comics Coast to Coast interviewed Guy Gilchrist, cartoonist for the Nancy strip and budding country music artist. Tom Racine interviews the Comic Riffs blogger Michael Cavna.
Posted on: Mar 9, 2010, Section: Blogs, Comic strips, Interviews, Podcasts, Comments: 1 Comment
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