Ted Key, who created the beloved, bossy maid Hazel in the 1940s, the iconic time-traveling cartoon characters Peabody and Sherman, and the television characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, died Saturday at his home in Tredyffrin Township, Pa., outside Philadelphia. He was 95. “Ted Key’s wonderful cartoons have been adored by millions of readers for decades,” said […]
Srini Bhukya, who’s cartoons have appeared in Wall Street Journal, First for Women, Woman’s World, Medical Economics, National Lampoon, Prospect Magazine (UK), and Reader’s Digest (India) has created a new web site called Toonbag.com to sell his cartoons for presentations, newsletters and other publications. The site is a database driven allowing potential customers to search […]
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A french editor has been fired for running a cartoon on the front page depicting Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy figures sitting on a cloud with the caption reading “Don’t worry Mohammad, we’ve all been caricatures here”. The editor, Jacques Lefranc, was dismissed by the paper’s owner as “a sign of respect.”
Yesterday Scott Kurtz’s PVP, one of the first successful webcomics, has turned 10 years old. Regarding the anniversary Scott wrote on his blog: I never expected PvP to take me here. This wasn’t planned. It was just a temporary gig. It wasn’t supposed to be the idea that took me anywhere. When I posted that […]
Doonesbury.com will be releasing a book of quotes regarding the Iraq War that have turned out to be wrong. The book entitled, “Doonesbury.com’s The War in Quotes” will have a forward by Garry Trudeau and run 144 pages. Some of the legendary quotes featured in the book include President Bush’s “major combat operations in Iraq […]
The Houston Chronicle has a nice write up about Tank McNamara co-creators Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds. Both cartoonists live in the Houston area, but as the article notes, they rarely see each other. Millar e-mails the dialogue, with whatever description he thinks is needed. For the first panel he’ll write: “1.” For the second […]
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For 58 years the Wall Street Journal has featured a gag cartoon under the title of Pepper…and Salt – most of the time running on the editorial page. As of April 22, the cartoon was moved to the Arts and Leisure page and reduced in size. The move might actually be a good thing. The […]
Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller has posted his first animated editorial cartoon. The animation pokes fun at Hillary Clinton singing a parody of “Stayin’ Alive.” The animation is plugged on the paper’s homepage. Regarding the move to animation, the paper has posted an interview about his work: Q. How does producing an animated cartoon […]
Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson has a special National Cartoonists Day cartoon over on his blog. TK here. Also check out his Free comic book day cartoons 1 and 2 as well as his May 4th (May the fourth be with you) Day cartoon.