NPR had Mike Luckovich and Mike Peters on to discuss their favorite cartoons of the year. You can see a sample of their favorite cartoons on the NPR site and also click to listen to the interview. Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News have each […]
Editor and publisher ‘has an article on the passing of Bud Blake who drew the comic feature “Tiger.” More information can be had at King Feature’s web site. “Tiger” comic creator Bud Blake died Monday at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was 87. Blake created “Tiger” in 1965, and it still appears in […]
King Features will roll out a new strip on January 1 called “Retail”. The feature is created by Norm Feuti has worked in retail for more than 15 years. ?The concept of a retail-based strip has great mass appeal, because everyone can relate to it, either as a former or current retail worker or shopper,? […]
Our good cartooning friends to the north are having good fun with the current election. See what they’re up to. Thirty days into the federal election campaign, editorial cartoonists are having no trouble drawing inspiration from the campaign trail. In an interview from Halifax on Wednesday, Halifax Daily News cartoonist Michael DeAdder says the campaign […]
USA Today has an write up about the growing popularity of Manga and the two newspapers (LA Times and Seattle Post) that now carry syndicated manga. TOKYOPOP founder Stuart Levy acknowledges that manga is not yet as popular in the USA as it is in Japan, but he expects that will change soon. “It’s like […]