Tribune Media Services has filed a lawsuit against actor Warren Beatty to regain the TV and movie rights to the Dick Tracy property. TMS alleges that Beatty “wrongfully claims” executive motion picture and television rights. Beatty purchased the writes in 1985 and released the Dick Tracy movie in 1990 which starred Dustin Hoffman, Madonna and […]
» New York Daily News cartoonist and writer Bill Gallo was the honored guest speaker at the fifth annual Honor the Free Press Day where he talked about his World War II experience and how it made him a better journalist. » The San Diego Union-Tribune found a buyer. I don’t know how that will […]
The 2009 Hugo Awards nominations are out for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Howard Tayler, creator of the successful webcomic Schlock Mercenary, has been nominated in the category of Best Graphic Story. The other nominees include: The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle Written by Jim Butcher, art by Ardian Syaf […]
» The Gazette (Cedar Rapid, IA) is bringing back Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine. In an ironic turn of events, the two strip that were cut are making a return because the paper is moving to a smaller page width. As the editor explains, as you reduce all 20 or so comics on the […]
Chad Carpenter’s Tundra is now available on the iTunes App Store as a iPhone/iPod Touch app. They have released two versions – a free app with 25 comics in it and a $.99 app with 100 of his comic. Over the last couple of months, I’ve downloaded a few comic apps to see how each […]
This year’s finalists for the 2009 Doug Wright Awards. The 2009 finalists for Best Book are: Burma Chronicles Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly) Drop-in Dave Lapp (Conundrum Press) Paul Goes Fishing Michel Rabagliati (Drawn & Quarterly) Skim Jillian & Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood Books) The 2009 finalists for Best Emerging Talent are: Kate Beaton (History Comics) […]
Scott Hilburn’s comic The Argyle Sweater is coming up on its first anniversary as a syndicated comic strip and now appears in over 200 newspapers in the U.S. The strip started as a lowly webcomic on Comics Sherpa before moving up into GoComics.com and landing a development deal for print syndication. The panel comic was […]