Industry news for the professional cartoonist
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According to E&P, Doonesbury.com has totaled more than 152,000 votes in a poll asking readers where “Doonesbury character” Alex should go to college…. The options are .Rensselaer, Cornell or MIT.As posted earlier here, some of the Universities in question are taking this fictional character quite seriously.
According to Universal Press, “Baldo” creators Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos have invited Lela Lee who does a weekly feature called “Angry Little Girls” to do three of six Baldo daily strips beginning May 22…. “Angry Little Girls” features an asian character, Kim.From the news release: During the six-day series, Baldo character Gracie Bermudez (who Cantu and Castellanos describe as a ?little sister with a cause?) and Lee?s cast of Angry Little Girls will join forces to show Baldo readers what real girls are all about.
Over on Arnold Wagner’s blog, he has an interesting clip out of a Gallup poll from 1936.
Subjects include the obligatory questions about how Mark got into cartooning; what Mark did for a living before cartooning became successful enough to support him financially; what make’s Lio different from other strips. When he decided he wanted to try his hand at a second strip, he wanted something significantly different from Heart of the City.”The thing I really wanted to do was something that is new,” he said.