The Bangor Daily News interviews Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller about his life in Kennebunkport, ME and his views on editors pulling comics. “Editors are word people. A cartoon is an abstract,” he said. “Today [editors] seem to be so much more afraid of a quote offending anybody that their first reaction is to err […]
From Robot6 comes news that The Katzenjammer Kids cartoonist Rudolph Dirks and Archie artist Harry Lucey will be inducted into the Will Eisner Awards Hall of Fame. Aside from the two mentioned above who will get automatic induction, 14 others have been nominated which include: Bill Blackbeard, Howard Chaykin, Richard Corben, Carlos Ezquerra, Lee Falk, […]
Andertoons’ Mark Anderson takes a look at the newly released iBooks Author software from Apple as a way of creating an cartoon collection eBook. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Apple recently entered the textbook market in a big way. They’ve partnered with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, revamped the iBooks app/store, and created […]
Cleveland Plain Dealer Reader Representative Ted Diadiun writes the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s response as to why they pulled a recent Non Sequitur from their line up and due to time constraints left the space blank save an editorial message stating it had been pulled and a replacement couldn’t be found in time for print. The […]
As mentioned earlier, three members of the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonists Society were visiting the McMaster Children’s Hospital to draw for children and family members. Chapter president Mike Cope, Patricia Storms and Jonathan Mahood made the trip on Friday. The Hamilton Spectator did a nice write-up. Mike and Jonathan have both posted photos […]
Dan Piraro just celebrated 27 years of his comic panel Bizarro and has now drawn over 10,000 cartoons. He sums up his thoughts on his blog: So happy anniversary to me and to Bizarro. Here is a brief list of highlights from my career: 1985–got syndicated 1990–still syndicated 2000–syndicated some more 2010–can’t afford to quit […]