From Stephan’s blog in which he reveals a failed attempted to knock off Jerry Scott to open more slots on the comic page.: Jerry writes the comic strips Zits (1,600 papers) and Baby Blues (900 papers). And newspaper slots are hard to come by these days. So I devised a plan. It began with a […]
Last week the Southern District Court of New York ruled against heirs of Jack Kirby in their suit to reclaim copyright for many of Marvel’s best known characters. The Comics Journal has a great piece on the differences between this case and the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster cases against DC Comics: Some legal observers were expecting […]
Profiled over at the Boston Globe are KC Green, Andrew Hussie, Jeffrey Rowland, Jeph Jacques, and Richard Stevens who have all gone professional with their webcomics. Webcomics were once seen as a new path to syndication. Comic artists would post their work online, hoping to attract a large enough fan base that syndicates would take […]
The Glen Rock Patch posted a profile of Hy Eisman the current cartoonist for E.C. Segar’s Popeye. But the 84-year-old Eisman – just 2 years old when Popeye the Sailor Man debuted in the King Features comic strip “Thimble Theater” in 1929 – does more than just continue to turn out the weekly strip featuring […]
This video was posted yesterday and highlights Bill Mauldin who was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame back in 1991. I’m unsure why it was posted just now, unless the TV station is going back and highlighting notable individuals in the Walk of Fame (that said, I’m sure to be in the Walk […]
Interesting piece over on Nuvo about former editorial cartoonist and now illustrator Stacy Curtis and friend Dave Windisch who have been doing screen printing and posters printing under the business name Mile 44 since 2004 for indie bands. Mile 44, as the duo is known, began printing in Chicago in 2004. After learning the craft […]
Bill Amend’s The Best of FoxTrot is steeply discounted over at Amazon right now. Regularly priced at $40, it’s now priced at $16.00. At 560 pages that’s like less than $.03 a page. Amazon notes that these are bargain books and as such “are new but could include a small mark from the publisher and […]