Stories of interest: Lafayette’s Bentley High School is putting on a musical based on Jim Toomey’s Sherman’s Lagoon. Allan Holtz has posted an Editor and Publisher article on Pogo creator Walt Kelly after he was awarded Cartoonist of the Year in 1952. An entertaining review of Doonesbury, Cathy, Dilbert, Garfield, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Family […]
Roy Schneider’s has confirmed that his feature The Humble Stumble strip will come to an end in March (8th for dailies, 9th for Sundays). The strip which was launched in 2000 was the result of a 13 year effort to become a syndicated cartoonist but Roy says that in the current comic market, it was […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy, creator of Between Friends, has posted a fifth segment to her very interesting (and inspiring) history of getting into syndication. (See here for links to segments 1-4). In this last post, Sandra talks about insights into the development period with Jay Kennedy as her editor. She’s also posted a few of his notes […]
There is a new character in Gil Thorpe and it’s named after Andrew Gregory, a fan the strip. Neal Rubin, the current cartoonist for the feature adds a new character each year. Rubin, who is also a features columnist for the Detroit News, said by e-mail that he has to come up with new characters […]
University of Michigan Press is publishing a book about Jakie Ormes, the first African American woman cartoonist who created Torchy Brown which ran in papers between 1937 and 1956. The book in entitled, Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist and is written by Nancy Goldstein. You can learn more about Jakie over on […]
Today is the last day to apply for the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship.