Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Glenn Foden, editorial cartoonist for Marylandâ??s Patuxent Publishing Co. and syndicated through Artizans has illustrated Politics & Pot Roast: An Unofficial, Unauthorized & Completely Unclassified Cookbook by Sarah Hood Salomon. The book came out in August.
I’m still trying to catch up from last weeks vacation and it’s not looking like I’m going to be able to give these stories the individual attention that they deserve, but I wanted to make sure they got some play on the blog.
Tribune Media Services has launched a new comic feature called Raising Hector. The strip has been around in self-syndication since 1996, according to this story in E&P, and is created by Peter Ramirez who is a former police officer – now stay at home dad (which is also the premise of the feature).
Next Saturday, the 14th, the Toy and Action Figure Museum (which also houses the Oklahoma Cartoonist’s collection) will be celebrating their first year in operation…. Three of the inductees are comic strippers – Chester Gould, who was born in Oklahoma and went on to create Dick Tracy; Bill Mauldin, whose first cartoons were published in the Daily Oklahoman; and Dick Locher who (and I think they’re stretching things here) is an Oklahoman by association because of his work on the Dick Tracy strip.Attending the celebration will be Alley Oop producers Jack and Carole Bender.For information on dates, locations, click the link above.
As reported ealier, Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the The Clarion-Ledger, will be coming out with a new book this month to commemorate his 10 years with the paper. On his blog, he has posted the cover which depicts public officials that have been lampooned in the last 10 years throwing tomatoes at Marshall.
Marshall Ramsey, a prolific blogger/editorial cartoonist for the Clarion Ledger announced on his blog yesterday that he will begin podcasting next week…. Once Marshall begins podcasting, he will join Scott Stantis as the only professional cartoonist with a regular podcast.
Up for election are Lio, On a Claire Day, F-minus, Brevity, and Silo Roberts…. It is my opinion that if one is going to post an online survey, one ought to take the basic steps of preventing multiple voting (or at least try).