Jeremy Love wins 5 Glyph Comic Awards
Jeremy Love’s Bayou took home five awards this year in the annual Glyph Comics Awards. Jeremy took the top spot…
May 2009
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Editorial cartoonist Draper Hill, dead at 73
Draper Hill, the long-time Detroit News cartoonist, and eminent cartoon historian, passed away earlier this week. In addition to his…
FOX cancels “Sit Down, Shut Up”
Sit Down, Shut Up, an animated sitcom that premiered on FOX in April, is shut down due to low ratings. The…
Bookmark Bar: Order of Tales hits 300
Order of Tales is an epic/fantasy graphic novel about a Teller named Koark. The orphaned son of Duke Themb, he…
News briefs for May 14, 2009
Animation » Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist and illustrator who directed animation for Walt Disney’s Hercules, will host this year’s annual Dundee…
Jeff Kinney: one of Time’s most influential people
Jeff Kinney, the creator of the “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series has been named as one of Time…
News briefs for May 13, 2009
Comic Strips » Ziggy inks a greeting card deal with American Greetings » KCChronicle.com picks up Zits. Editorial Cartooning »…
World’s largest comic strip recreated in Brussels
During a comic festival in Brussels, a scaled up reproduction of a Tintin adventure was created on the Brussels Grand…
Jeff Smith documentary slated for next Friday
Bone creator Jeff Smith is the subject of a documentary entitled “The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Changing Face…
Zapiro to remove shower head from Zuma’s head
Jonathan Shapiro (AKA “Zapiro”), the South African cartoonist who has drawn the ire, as well as law suits, from the…
Between Friends offers story-line for Canadian Cancer Society
Sandra Bell-Lundy, the creator of Between Friends, has created a three day story-line to promote breast cancer screenings for the…
INDenverTimes.com adds 39 Creators comics
INDenverTimes.com, the new online venture by former Rocky Mountain News staffers, has added a comic section to their website “in…
Comic strip changes for the week
» Tundra has been picked up by the News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) replacing F-Minus. » Over in RACs, a Philadelphia…
News Briefs for May 12, 2009
Cartooning » Benita Epstein is profiled twice this week. Enjoy Magazine talks about her work as a entomologist before becoming…
Belgium experiencing shortage of comic writers
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the shortage of sequential art writers in Belgium. Kids grow up…