» Jack Bender, current cartoonist on Alley Oop will be attending this year’s national Tarzan convention in Waterloo, IA this year. Bender is a native of Waterloo and has an extensive collection of Tarzan art. He’ll discuss Tarzan art while there. » Slashfilm.com is reporting that Frank Miller will be directing a live action remake […]
Here are the comic pages that I’ve found this last week. The Detroit News has added Keith Knight’s The Knight Life to it’s line up. The News Tribune, (Tacoma, WA) is adding Zits, Baby Blues, and Pooch Cafe. To make room, Mary Worth, B.C. and World of Wonder are being dropped. The paper said the […]
While reporting last week on new animated movies that were due out this summer, I missed the new “Star Wars: The Clone War” movie that Lucas Film is releasing to theaters on August 15th. The computer generated movie is set between episodes II and III of the live action movies. The movie is the initial […]
Jeff Smith’s joint exhibit his Bone comic opened up last weekend at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library and Wexner Center for the Arts. WizardUniverse.com’s Kiel Phegley interviewed the two curators Lucy Caswell and David Filipi. David, you may have just answered my next question, but I was wondering for each of you, what […]
The AAEC has issued an open letter to the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Courts opposing the current Orphan Works legislation that is working its way through congress. In a joint letter, Nick Anderson, President of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and Jeff Keane, President of the National Cartooning Society, they wrote, The Association […]
The National Cartoonists Society board and Stu Rees, NCS Attorney, have sent out the following email to its members asking them to oppose the Orphan Works Act of 2008 that is currently making its way through congress. Dear National Cartoonists Society Member: The NCS Board and Stu Rees (NCS legal counsel) are taking the unusual […]
Mark Heath, creator of Spot the Frog, has announced that he is ending his comic strip about six months shy of its fifth anniversary. The last day for dailies is July 5th with the last Sunday running June 29th. He says that lack of client newspapers is the reason behind his decision.