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Comic Strip Doctor Quits His Practice
David Malki, the self proclaimed comic strip doctor, has tired of his snarky ways and has decided to stop writing his columns.
Continuing commitments with my own ongoing comic, writing, and film projects have precluded my spending further time on faux criticism, and frankly, I don’t even read newspaper comics anymore. So it’s been a [...]
Posted on: Aug 24, 2007, Section: Discussion, Comments: 22 Comments
What do comics mean to you?
Last week, I enjoyed an email exchange with Rebecca Nappi of the The Spokesman Review. She’s renewed her interest in the funny pages after losing interest in them when she went away for college 34 years ago. She’s written a commentary about why the funnies have beaconed her return.
The adult world is pretty scary right [...]
Posted on: Apr 2, 2007, Section: Comic strips, Discussion, Comments: 1 Comment
Discussion: I’d rather lose my left (or right) hand if I had to give up using…
Back in the mid-90’s I was watching a video that Tribune Media Services distributed to newspapers to promote Jeff MacNelly. Half way through I noticed Jeff was using some kind of pen that made thin and narrow strokes like it was a brush - but it definitely was a pen. I did slow-mo several times trying to figure out what he was using. I finally emailed Chris Cassatt who was Jeff’s assistant at the time and asked him what he was using. He wrote back telling me it was a brush pen that could only be purchased from an art store in Canada and also gave me contact information on how to order one - which I immediately did. Since then, that brush pen (I still use the original) has been irreplaceable. I love the freedom of being able to work away from my desk and not have to carry around an ink bottle and cup of water to clean the brush.
Posted on: Jul 24, 2006, Section: Discussion, Comments: 8 Comments
