Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Yesterday’s Zits had an easter egg. Not a real Easter egg, but a hidden novelty known only to Jim Borgman. The strip featured Jeremy and his dad, Walter. Walter is wearing a t-shirt that says “Nutter Fort” in the first panel, “West Virginia” in the third and back to “Nutter Fort” in the last. A Charleston Gazette reporter got Jim on the phone to figure what the special message was.
Back in April and June, I posted stories about editorial cartoonist Joe Heller’s participation in a fund raiser for the Einstein Project. The project involved 40 artists who decorated statues of butterflies, frogs and beetles that would be placed in several locations throughout Green Bay and later auctioned off. Last Tuesday the auction was held and Joe’s butterfly fetched $3,700 – the third highest for the evening.
This year’s Newspaper Enterprise Association’s holiday comic strip will be Mark Leiknes’ Cow & Boy.