Canadian cartoonist Ralph Hagen will craft a new comic strip, The Barn, debuting from Creators Syndicate on October 27. The strip will concentrate on the interaction between farm animals and local humans. Hagen, a self-taught artist, has been professionally illustrating for 31 years and has been published in a variety of outlets from The Saturday…
Here’s a little ditty that ComicMix’s Macintosh majority would like to share with you. It’s from The Daily Cartoonist, and it’s called Calvin and Jobs.
Ugly Hill‘s Paul Southworth kicked off his comic-within-a-comic SasqWatch 2813 this week, and as Gary Tyrrell points out over at Fleen, this sort of storyline/plot point has spawned a successful spin-off or two in the past. Now’s your chance to read it before it got too big for its own good. Owch! Just in case…
The National Post’s writer and cartoonist team of Ben Kaplan and Steve Murray recently chronicled their foray into a nudist colony in Ontario, Canada, and the resulting story and comic strip, well… they pretty much speak for themselves. From naked lawn care to threesomes in a hot tub, both features provide a funny, fish-out-of-water look…
The people over at The New York Times Magazine clearly have a great sense of the contemporary comic book scene. Earlier this year they picked up a new series by Jason (of I Killed Adolf Hitler fame), and now they’re debuting a new series by Rutu Modan, whose graphic novel Exit Wounds was one of…
I already knew that Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac was a damn fine comic, but it’s nice to have someone like Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, confirm that assessment. Watterson has provided the foreword for the upcoming collection of Thompson’s popular series, titled Cul De Sac: This Exit. According to Thompson, Watterson’s words…
I already knew that Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac was a damn fine comic, but it’s nice to have someone like Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, confirm that assessment. Watterson has provided the foreword for the upcoming collection of Thompson’s popular series, titled Cul De Sac: This Exit. According to Thompson, Watterson’s words…
Well, that headline ought to cause some Google searcher meltdown. But the fact is, right wing poster child Little Orphan Annie has a lot in common with mega-leftie songleader Pete Seeger. This dawned on me because of the confluence of recent events. IDW released the first volume of The Complete Little Orphan Annie last week….
Over at Journalista, Dirk Deppey flexed his scanning muscles yesterday and posted a nice set of images from one of the illustrated books on his shelf. The book is Frank Wing’s Fotygraft Album, published in 1915, and features the following: The gimmick’s simple: a young child is showing the family photo album to a friend…
In today’s brand-new, full color episode of The Adventures of Simone & Ajax: The Maltese Duck, by Andrew Pepoy, our heroes find themselves in a mysterious, lost city. Â In Michigan. Â Will they escape? Â Will Simone find an outfit with no ripped seams? Â And why do lemmings always know? Credits: Andrew Pepoy…
Born in Collingwood, Ontario in 1947, Lynn Ridgway was raised in North Vancouver and attended the Vancouver School of Art. She worked at an animation studio after college but married in 1969 and moved back to Ontario, where she worked as a medical artist for several years. She drew her first book, David We’re Pregnant…
The Complete Peanuts, 1967-1968 By Charles M. Schulz; foreword by John Waters Fantagraphics, February 2008, $28.95 By 1967, [[[Peanuts]]] wasn’t just another comic strip in the local newspaper, it was a media phenomenon. The first TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, had won an Emmy amid universal acclaim two years earlier, and You’re a Good…
