South Jersey Times profiles Lio creator Mark Tatulli and his upcoming book, “Lio: There’s a Monster in My Socks” “I actually created Lio for adults because I knew there weren’t that many kids reading the newspaper anymore, so I wrote it as a throwback for our generation,” he said. “But then I found out that […]
The Star-Ledger profiles Hy Eisman, cartoonist for both The Katzenjammer Kids and Popeye (Sundays). Despite penning two of the most famous comic strips in history, the cartoonist lives in relative anonymity. A neighbor who had done work on Eisman’s house discovered, to his surprise, the cartoonist’s name on the wall of the Popeye museum in […]
One of the attendees of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning was Mike Cope who has uploaded 240 photos he took of the event. It?s worth a gander and a mental note to make sure you attend the next one. By the reports I?ve heard from those who went, it was a great event. Pictured above: […]
An Afghan cleric has offered $300,000 for anyone who kills the producer of the anti-Islam film, "Innocence of Muslims,? that has angerd the Muslim word and another $100,000 to the person who kills the French cartoonist who drew caricatures of the prophet Mohammed that recently appeared in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. I have yet […]
Dan Perkins, better known as Tom Tomorrow, the creator of This Modern World is alerting fans and readers that the Village Voice is no longer running his cartoon. In a blog post he explains that the six month suspension of cartoons in the chain’s newspapers is now in its fourth year and had it not […]