Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise’s feature “Real Life Adventures” is celebrating 15 years. Aldrich and Wise, after working with each other for 21 years, have developed an unconventional approach to collaboration: they stay away from each other. Working together through a series of faxes and phone calls between Aldrich’s home in rural Michigan (he is […]
Greg Cravens (artist for “Buckets“) and current Reuben Award nominee for Best Newspaper Illustration division has a glowing write up in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Advertisers target the entire spectrum of ages and social groups. And for ads that need to be fun or that target children, there’s no one better than Cravens, said Blaine […]
The St. Petersburg Times will be trying out four new features during the Boondock’s hiatus. The article didn’t say which four – though the article did have a picture of Dog Eat Doug next to it. Time to experiment. On Sunday we’ll announce the addition – on a trial basis – of not one but […]
Jef Mallett’s Frazz will turn 5 years old on April 2. “Five years of Frazz is wonderful, but I think it says more about my readers than it does about me,” Mallett said. “I started this strip with the conceit that readers were smarter than a lot of features were assuming, and I’ve layered the […]
NCS President and Soup to Nutz creator, Rick Stromoski will be throwing the first pitch at a Cubs game during the weekend of the NCS yearly gathering in Chicago. According to Rick – he and Pat Byrnes (Chicago NCS chapter chairman) contacted the Cubs to findout if there were any games that weekend of the […]