» The BBC talks to Ed Stein about his career and state of the industry. » Arkansas News Bureau’s Vic Harville will be doing a fictional series of cartoons starting next week depicting what life would be like without newspapers. » Mother Jones magazine interviews Steve Brodner. (Via Mike Rhode). » Guy Gilchrist’s Night Lights […]
King Features has unveiled their official Zits Motion Comics. From Comics Kingdom: Comics Kingdom™ now showcases the hilarious, first-of-its-kind Zits Motion Comics, based on the widely-popular comic strip, Zits. These 30-second motion comics are a cross between the beloved print newspaper comic strip and animated comics.” A channel for “Jeremy” has been set up on […]
The Chicago Tribune has moved its Sunday comics to a broadsheet format and in the transition lost five Sunday strips: Lio, Brewster, Scary Gary, Tundra and Argyle Sweater. The Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale, CA) picked up Rip Haywire and will running the first week of May. Rip Haywire will also start in the Tribune (Sparks, […]
After the talk of the growth and acceptance of graphic novels as literature, I stopped into the local, independently owned bookstore around the corner from where I work. The selection was sparse and heavily geared toward DC and Marvel super hero novels. Not that I have anything against spandex laden men and women (capes optional), […]
The cartoon custody battle over Ben Wicks’ cartoons was resolved in 2007 and the family has decided to donate the collection to York University in Toronto. The collection has 2,500 cartoons dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ben died in 2000. The cartoons were originally lost when the family moved homes in the […]
Daily Cartoonist poster and Tall Tale Features member Lucas Turnbloom’s comic strip IMAGINE THIS will be featured on GoComics.com starting April 8th. Even cooler still is the line up of guest cartoonists Lucas had contribute to his strip while he and his wife welcomed their second little Turnbloom into the world. You can check out […]
Last week I mentioned a mention that Pulitzer Prize humor columnist Gene Weingarten was working on a comic with his son and that it will be syndicated through Washington Post. In this week’s Chatological Humor, Gene divulges a bit more information. The strip is called Barney and Clyde and is also being produced by David […]