Industry news for the professional cartoonist
King Features Syndicate is launching a new interactive feature called “Captionary” for it’s Comics Kingdom product. The new feature allows readers to write the captions of cartoons drawn by Dan Piraro, Mike Peters, Hilary Price, Vic Lee and Rina Piccolo. “In the same way people are attracted to The New Yorker CaptionIt contests, news sites…
Animation » Fox will premiere its animation powerhouse shows on Sunday September 27. Check out new episodes of “The Simpsons”, the “Family Guy” and its spinoff “The Cleveland Show” and “American Dad.” Comic Strips » An original 1983 Peanuts comic strip was recently auctioned off for $17,080. It had originally thought to sell for $10,000…
The 2009 Reuben award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the year goes to Dave Coverly. Dave does the comic panel “Speed Bump” and does panel cartoons formthe New Yorker and Parade Magazine. “Speed Bump” is syndicated through Creators Syndicate. Other nominees this year included Stephan Pastis, and Dan Piraro.
King Features is set to launch their second Earth Day comic event next Wednesday on Comics Kingdom. On that day 37 of their creators will use their comics to advance an environmental theme. Each comic will attempt to create awareness for the environment while maintaining each strip’s character and spirit. For example, in Mother Goose…
Title: Complete Reuben and Division Awards Mike Lynch has posted the last remaining National Cartoonist Society’s division award (Book Illustration). The nominees are: Jim Benton Cherise the Niece, Stacy Curtis Raymond and Graham Rule the School and Mike Lester Cool Daddy Rat. Congrats to the nominees. The complete list is now: Reuben Award Dave Coverly…
» Webcomicker pro Dave Kellets, creator of Sheldon, will be at the Miami Books and Books talking about building a living wage career online with comics. I’m sure book signing is also in order as well as a Question & Answer period. » Tak Toyoshima, creator of Secret Asian Man, will be one of many…
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter stock market ride. Clearly many cartoonist achieved career highs and milestones, but for many cartoonist who live and die in the newspaper, there was a lot of dying. In writing this review, I can’t help…
I don’t get many reports of comic page changes outside of the United States, but thanks to Andreas Eriksson of Sweden, we learn that the Norra Västerbotten recently switched to a tabloid format earlier this month and brought in a focus group to determine which comic features should be dropped or picked up. Before the…
» E&P reports that Bill Rechin to continue ‘Crock’ comic after Don Wilder’s death. » Gary Varvel will speak at his local library on the Art of Political Cartooning on Oct. 12. » Rubes creator Leigh Rubin will be in Eugene OR on Oct 15-16. He’s speaking at the University of Oregon on the 16th….
Bizarro creator Dan Piraro has posted a cartoon that he describes as a “great joke” that was perhaps “too racy for the funny pages” over on his blog. Speaking of all things Dan, he’s also posted a video of a portion of his stage performance that he does from time to time, like the one…
» Dan Piraro will be doing more stand up comedy in California on September 10, 11. » Dilbert creator Scott Adams was featured on ABC’s Medical Mysteries last Tuesday night. See my earlier article on his speech disorder that was featured on TV. » Zippy the Pinhead fans in Baltimore are working hard to get…
As reported earlier, Sally Forth writer Francesco “Ces” Marciuliano is filling in for Bizarro creator Dan Piraro this week using his Medium Large comic material. The first one is out and you can read Ces’ review of it on his blog. If you like Medium Large, visit the official site.
Francesco “Ces” Marciuliano who writes for King Feature’s Sally feature will be filling in on Dan Piraro’s Bizarro during the week of July 28 – August 2nd and also with the August 24th Sunday. Ces’ work will include cartoons from his webcomic Medium Large. Dan will post each day’s cartoons on his blog and offer…
While Wiley Miller opts to make his Reuben Award winner prediction in a retractable-less cartoon that’s set to print on Sunday – just hours after the formal announcement is made, Tom Heintjes, editor of “Hogan’s Magazine” has posted his predictions for all the division awards as well as the Reuben Award. NOMINEES FOR THE REUBEN…
Wiley Miller is taking a bold risk. This Sunday’s Non Sequitur will congratulate the winner of the Reuben Award that won’t even be announced until this Saturday night. He tells Dave Astor that he’s “crawled out on that limb.” The finalist’s this year are: Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Dan Piraro (Bizarro), and Mad magazine cartoonist…