2010 Ignatz Award nominees announced
The 2010 Ignatz Award nominees have been announced. The award is given for outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. Here…
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StoryCorps produces animated short series
Every Friday morning on my way to work, I listen to StoryCorp at the end of NPR’s Morning Edition. I…
National Portrait Gallery Presents Portrait of Charles M. Schulz
A photograph of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) will be presented to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in a…
Podcasts: Scott Stantis, Turnbloom, Bob Weber, Jr.
Prickly City creator and Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis is back into podcasting. This time with Tribune columnist Eric…
Mankoff responds to New Yorker/Kanye tweet mashup
Cartooning “tweets” has been a rage of late. I’ve reported that Paul Sabourin started pairing New Yorker cartoons with Kanye…
Archie comic heading into action adventure story
The Gazette (NJ) has a profile on Archie comic book artist Fernando Ruiz who was tapped to draw a action-adventure…
Women still secondary characters in comics
A recent paper in presented to the American Sociological Association suggests that female characters in the largest (most read) comic…
Piccolo draws comics of tweets
A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out that Paul Sabourin was matching Kanye West’s tweets to New Yorker Cartoons….
ArcaMax Publishing picks up five new comics
ArcaMax Publishing news and entertainment provider by email, has added five new comic strips to its Funnies page: Dilbert, Luann,…
Penny Arcade readers take offense to rape reference
Last week’s Penny Arcade has upset several readers. The comic used the phrase, “every night we are raped to sleep…
Rina Piccolo: News papers are not dying
Tina’s Groove creator Rina Piccolo was a recent panelist at Mocca on the topic of “The Future Of The Traditional…
Tony Rubino interviewed by Mike Rhode
ComicsDC blogger Mike Rhode interviewed Daddy’s Home co-creator Tony Rubino for the Washington City Paper about his career in comics….
ABC signs 5 year agreement to air Peanuts
Peanuts Worldwide, the newly formed joint venture between Iconix Brand Group (Nasdaq: ICON) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates today…
Cathy Guisewhite talks about her upcoming retirement
Michael Cavna catches up with Cathy creator Cathy Guisewhite to talk about why she’s retiring and how the syndicate took…
Keep up with Bors, Cloud and Rall in Afghanistan
Last week the State Department issued a travel warning telling Americans not to go to Afghanistan stating: No part of…