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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: 10 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: 17 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
Harvey: NCS bias against non syndicated creators?
RC Harvey, writing over on The Comics Journal, raises a question about the bias of the National Cartoonist Society in awarding its top honor, the Reuben, to syndicated comic strip creators.
In this roster of the first 16 Reuben winners, only one cartooned outside of newspaper pages. Ronald Searle. All the rest were syndicated newspaper cartoonists. [...]
Posted on: Mar 9, 2010, Section: Awards, Comic strips, National Cartoonist Society, Reuben, Comments: 85 Comments
Bill Mauldin stamps available this month
United States Postal Service will begin selling Bill Mauldin stamps this month. The stamp features a photo of himself along with his signature characters Willie and Joe. The Postal Service will also be releasing a series entitled The Sunday Funnies which will feature Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. The [...]
Posted on: Mar 8, 2010, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
2010 Festival of Cartoon Art schedule announced
The tenth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH October 14-17, 2010. The Festival is a unique celebration of cartoons and comics, and their creators. This year’s line-up of presenters include Steve Breen, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Matt Groening and Tom Gammill, Dave [...]
Posted on: Mar 8, 2010, Section: Cartoons, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 4 Comments
Dustin strip passes 100 client papers
Congrats to Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker whose recently launched Dustin has quickly jumped to the “more than 100 newspapers” category.
From the press release:
“Dustin is the most successful new comic to be introduced into syndication in recent years,” said George Haeberlein, King Features vice president, worldwide syndication sales. “It has been appearing in newspapers for [...]
Posted on: Mar 5, 2010, Section: Comic strips, New Launches, Comments: 7 Comments
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