A couple more milestone to report. Gary Tyrrell reports over on Fleen that Brad Guigar’s Evil, Inc is now in it’s 11th year. Richard Thompson reports that his Cul de Sac feature is seven years old now . It first launched as a weekly feature in the Washington Post on Valentines Day in 2004. The […]
NYT reports that Joanne Siegel has passed away at the age of 93. Joanne was a Cleveland teen during the Depression and was the model used by Joe Shuster to create the Lois Lane character. A high school girl with an ambitious nature and stars in her eyes, young Joanne, like teenagers everywhere, was seeking […]
NPR reports that graphic novelist and The New Yorker illustrator Adrian Tomine created a comic to give to his wedding guest. When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors: a customized chocolate bar? A personalized mug? Then Brennan had an idea. Tomine is […]
Politifact.com decides to fact check Sunday’s Doonesbury strip that claims since 9/11 “270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.” We began by contacting Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who has drawn Doonesbury for more than four decades. He got back immediately with a summary of his methodology. “The final figure lacks precision, because it’s extrapolated,” […]
Tom Spurgeon cites reports on rumors that Comics Comics will be taking over The Comics Journal “in some fashion” in the near future. This morning’s rumor cited here and here is that the Comics Comics team in some fashion will be taking over The Comics Journal, which would be awesome, would certainly fit the criteria […]
Last month I wrote that Tony Cochran, creator of Agnes, was going to be on Writers Talk. That program is now online. For those in the Ohio area you can see it on the big screen (your TV) on February 24 @ 4 pm. For the rest of us, we’ll have to settle for the […]