Last December, I told you about Over the Hedge, Open Season and Flushed Away were up for several Annie Awards. The Annie Awards are the animation industry’s big award. The big winner was Pixar’s Cars – which won Best Animated Feature beating out Over the Hedge and Open Season. Over the Hedge and Flushed Away […]
The 2007 Lakeland Community College Comic Symposium line-up has been announced. This year’s event will include one syndicated team: John Forgetta and Kathy Dow, creative team for the feature The Meaning of Lila. Other committed speakers include: Dr. Michael Bitz, Founder and Director of The Comic Book Project, Tony Isabella, editor, writer, creator, columnist who […]
A professional political cartoonist now serving in Iraq has written back to the AAEC’s Notebook (quarterly magazine) to admonish his peers to treat the flag-draped coffin with more respect than what he’s seen. Here’s a snippet from this letter: No matter how your political persuasion distills this image, a flag-draped coffin is due a certain […]
Guy Gilchrist, co-creator of Nancy, writes a periodic article called “Drawn To Success” in which he talks and inspires the next generation of cartoonists on how to better their craft and achieve their goals. In his latest column, he introduces an apprentice program to allow six students to be mentored by him for a one, […]
At 78 years of age, Al Scaduto is still going strong doing the daily They’ll Do It Every Time. The Connecticut Post has a write up on Al’s history working on this feature that was first started in 1929 by Jimmy Hatlo.
If you’ve been reading Girls and Sports lately, you’ve noticed that Andrew Feinstein and Justin Borus have added a baby and a puppy to their feature to poke fun at comic polls that seem to indicate that features with these characters tend to perform well.
Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, is scheduled to appear on Ohio public television February 17-23 to talk about his journey from painting and auto body work to syndicated comic strip cartoonist. Those in the Ohio area can check here for time listings.
Only two changes this weekend in the funny page line up. The Tribune Democrat ran a month long survey to find a couple of new features. The comics under consideration were Glenn and Gary McCoy’s The Flying McCoys, Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett’s On a Claire Day, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott’s Baby Blues, Rick […]