Profiled: Dana Summers of the Orlando Sentinel
Sean Pitts profiles Orlando Sentinel editorial cartoonist Dana Summers about his sketch to color process . Dana also does the Bound and Gagged comic strip.
Posted on: December 2, 2011
Profiled: Charles Schulz, Peanuts and licensing
From the Investor’s Business Daily’s Amy Reeves: “While there had been lots of licensing of comics before ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Peanuts’ showed how broad it could be, how full it could be and how much control could be left in the hands of the creator rather than the syndicate,” Gertler told IBD. “While Schulz never owned the […]
Cartoonist: Cowboys & Aliens infringes on his comic of same name
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned […]
First Superman comic book sells for $2 million
The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year. From Michael Cavna: The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of […]