Life mag photos online include famous cartoonists
Google announced this week that it is hosting the photo repository for Life Magazine. The index is completely searchable by…
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Peanuts short animations coming through iTunes
E&P is reporting that 20 new 3-4 minute Peanuts animations are being released today on iTunes. The animated shorts are…
News Briefs for October 31, 2008
» The Animation Blog notes that the voice talent of The Simpsons has extended their contract for another three years….
An interview with Arnold creator Kevin McCormick
Charles Brubaker has posted an interview he conducted with Kevin McCormick who did the Arnold comic that ran for six…
Finding comic history using Google’s news archive
Charles Brubaker has been using Google’s news archive to look for gems of comic history. So far he’s found short…
News Briefs for October 10, 2008
» MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond will be the “Phone a Friend” for Jim Batts, a fellow caricaturist, who will be…
OSU Cartoon library to exhibit work of Sam Milai
The Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Library is running an exhibit on Sam Milai, an editorial cartoonist for the influential…
News Briefs for October 6, 2008
» Stacy Curtis‘ book that he illustrated, “The 7 Habits for Happy Kids” debuted on the New York Times Best…
News Briefs for October 3, 2008
» Mike Cavna interviews Ted Rall. » Express Night Out interviews Tom Tomorrow. » Ray Billingsley’s Curtis comic is now…
Mort Walker interviews on Comicology TV
Comicology.tv has posted an interview with Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker on the topic of “Early Artistry.” The original episode…
Cartooning in the footsteps of Bill Watterson
Comics Riff blogger Mike Cavna interviewed Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson on the topic of doing a kids strip…
Rube Goldberg on the political cartooning
Allan Holtz over at the Strippers Guide has posted an interesting article written and published by Rube Goldberg in April…
Alley Oop celebrates 75 years
Today marks the 75 anniversary for Alley Oop. The feature was originally created by Vincent T. Hamlin’s who worked the…
Peanuts character Franklin marks 40th birthday
The Times Union marks that 40 years ago last Thursday was the first time the Peanut character Franklin appeared in…
The most influential cartoonists of 20th century
I believe we’ve discussed this topic on this blog before, but Mike Lynch ran a poll among his readers asking…