Joanne Siegel, wife of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, recently passed away. Last December she wrote a letter to DC CEO and Chairman Jeffrey L. Bewkes pleading with him to end the lawsuits and come to the table with a good faith business approach. So I ask you to please consider – do these mean spirited […]
Lloyd Dangle has announced that he is ending Troubletown at the end of April after 22 years. That’s right folks, after twenty-two years I’ve decided to retire my comic strip. It’s been an agonizing decision but I’ve come to the conclusion that the time is right. I’ll be doing my last strip at the end […]
The second installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie franchise took top billing at the box office this last weekend taking in $24.4 million – beating the original Wimpy Kid movie by $2 million. Other comic/animated related films still in the top 10 include Rango (#5) and Mars Needs Moms! (#10)
Congrats to Terri Libenson, creator of The Pajama Diaries, who is celebrating her features’s fifth year in syndication as of yesterday. On her blog, she’s looking back at what she’s learned in these last five years. In honor of the 5-year mark, here are the TOP 5 things that syndication has taught me: 5. Gut-wrenching […]
Funny anecdote from The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID). A reader noticed the art work in The Elderberries had changed and asked the paper if a new artist had taken over. The syndicate reports that Corey Pandolph is still the cartoonist, but that Corey had changed the tools he used drawing the strip. “I decided it […]
The ongoing lawsuit between Warren Beatty and Tribune Co. over ownership to the rights TV and movie rights for Dick Tracy has been tilted in Beatty’s favor after a judge last week ruled that Beatty had satisfied a requirement to begin a Dick Tracy movie or TV show. From Bloomberg: The actor said he started […]
For those keeping score, three of the big five editorial cartooning journalism awards announced so far have all gone to a “Mike.” Mike Peters – National Headliners Award Mike Thompson – Scripps Howard Award Mike Keefe – John Fischetti Award Herblock Award – Tom Toles Matt Wuerker – National Press Foundation Still unannounced: Overseas Press […]
Mike Peters, editorial cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) has won this year’s National Headliner Award for editorial cartooning. Second and third place went to Stuart Carlson (Universal Uclick Syndicate) and Adam Zyglis (The Buffalo News, NY) respectively. Mike won the award last year. Interviewed by Michael Cavna about the announcement, Mike said, […]