Corey Pandolph writes in to announce that his feature, Barkeater Lake, that he removed from comics.com after a three year run, has a new web site. The site offers the updated daily strip, a membership for fans to help support the site and Corey’s strip as well as a place to purchase the first Barkeater […]
Andrew Feinstein of Girls & Sports writes in to tell me that the second G&S animated cartoon has been posted to the web. The first was posted on YouTube back in October. He and Justin Borus will also be in Denver this Thursday at the Tattered Cover Book Store to plug their book. They will […]
Only one paper making major changes to their line-up that I can find. The Journal Register (Medina NV) has dropped FoxTrot, Rugrats and Cats With Hands in favor of Sandra Bell-Lundy’s Between Friends, Allison Barrows’ Preteena and Mike Peters’ Mother Goose AND GRIMM. UPDATE: I told you last week about the Hamilton Spectator who went […]
Last Friday, E&P senior editor Dave Astor, posted a column in which he regards today’s editorial cartoonists are in a “golden age” yet at the same time in a “sad era” due to the dwindling number of professional cartoonists. The golden age is due to the ability to use color, animation and computer-aid enhancements. He […]
Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist for MSN.com, wrote a column on a practice used by the New York Times (and other publications) of removing the cartoonists’ names and publication of record when they reprint the cartoon. Most times they credit the cartoonist and his/her employing newspaper, but the New York Times, at least when dealing with […]
There’s an interesting article over at the San Francisco Examiner about individuals who are set to collect vintage comic strips with the hope of getting them reprinted in a collection. From the article, it appears that many of these collectors are fanatics who have spent a great deal of money to grow their collection. At […]