Dear Fellow Professional Cartoonists: Thanks to all of you who’ve written and please accept my gratitude for your concern. I don’t do self-pity any better than I do humble (or battery) so forgive me if I just do “human”. Of course I would have preferred the incident not to have happened and to not be […]
Editorial Cartooning » JD Crowe gets roasted by “a death panel of peers and disgruntled politicians.” » Dick Locher is immortalized in a mural in his hometown of Naperville. The wall is “being painted on the outer wall of the Naperville Art League and depicts famous artists creating their well-known works.” Interviews » Sandra Bell-Lundy […]
A “thank you” documentary about the effect of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes has had on readers and fans is in production for a 2011 release. A teaser has been released recently (see below). Teaser from DMW on Vimeo. The producers are using social media to allow fans to participate in the project using YouTube […]
I’ve received a couple of promotional emails from the folks at the Baltimore Comc-Con regarding their line-up of guests and panelists. The Guest of Honor will be George Perez. The line-up of guests so far include: Jason Aaron Mike Allred Laura Allred Dick Ayers Brian M Bendis Ryan Bodenheim Doug Braithwaite Pat Broderick Buzz Jim […]
Tom Spurgeon has begun what I’d consider a massive project – naming the top 100 comics for the years 2000-2009. The categories he’s outlined so far include: Anthologies, Archival Editions, Original Long-Forms and Definitive Collections, Comic Books, Manga, Newspaper, On-Line, and Works On The Subject Of Comics. He’s already penned an impressive list of comics […]
Fans of serial comics may want to settle in for a longer than usually story-line that launches today for The Phantom. Tony DePaul, the current writer for the strip, was quoted as saying that he was going to “shake things up a bit” and begin a 20 month story-line opposed to the normal 17 week […]