Twenty-five newspapers (and counting) have decided not to run the next two weeks of Berke Breathed’s Opus because of its content– Lola Granola is experimenting with alternate religions again, having decided that Amish nudism isn’t a viable lifestyle, and she tries… well, look to the right. Luckily, this is the age of the Internet, so…
Popeye by Bud Sagendorf, reprinted in newspapers last Wednesday but originally published a couple decades ago. In fact, Bud Sagendorf has been dead for 12 years. No, it wasn’t a suicide. About a dozen years ago, Popeye cartoonist Bobby London got fired for a storyline that set-up a minor, passing joke reference to abortion, without…
Back in 1961, cartoonist Dan DeCarlo created a newspaper strip called Josie. Unsuccessful at selling into that crowded market, it was picked up by Archie Comics , and the feature evolved into Josie and the Pussycats. Dan based the lead character on his wife, Josie as sort of a different look at the Archie environment….
How did we get to this before Mark Evanier did? 29 years ago today, the above strip brought Garfield to the world at large. Since then, he has consumed more lasagna than the entire cast of The Sopranos and has shed enough hair to clog Hoover Dam. Oh, and a whole lot of books, TV…
Beginning July 9th, ToykoPop’s top-selling manga Princess Ai will be headed to many American Sunday newspapers, courtesy of Universal Newspaper Syndicate. The co-creation of rocker, actress and idol of EMS workers Courtney Love along with Misaho Kujiradou, Yazawa Ai, and others, Princess Ai is reportedly Love’s fantasy alter-ego. Prior to becoming an American idol, Love…
Perhaps the comics’ first "costumed" hero, Mandrake The Magician, is headed to the big screen once again. The creation of Lee Falk (who created The Phantom in 1936, two years after starting Mandrake) and artist Phil Davis, Chuck Russell is directing the new effort. Fans might best remember his work helming The Mask. Mindfreak star…
The National Cartoonists Society handed out their 61st annual Reuben Awards at their dinner in Orlando, Florida this weekend. The winners of this year’s awards are: NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIP: Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine COMIC BOOK: Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese GAG CARTOONING: Drew Dernavich MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: Steve Brodner BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Mike Lester…
The world has come to this: The Hampton Roads, Virginia Virginian-Pilot is in the mood to drop some comic strips; Mutts is already on probation. Now they’re asking their readers to choose between Rex Morgan MD and Doonesbury. I’ll run that by you again: kill one – Rex Morgan MD, by Woody Wilson and Graham…
Gina Holden will be starring with Eric Johnson in the SciFi Channel’s new Flash Gordon series, debuting this August. No stranger to heroic fantasy projects, the Canadian actress previously appeared in Fantastic Four, The Butterfly Effect 2 and the upcoming Alien vs. Predator 2. Based upon Alex Raymond’s classic newspaper comic strip, SciFi has already…
They’re about to throw the book at Blondie. Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History by strip writer Dean Young (son of Chic Young, Blondie’s real daddy) and Melena Ryzik have penned the definitive tale of the world’s most heavily circulated newspaper comic strip. Even if you find today’s efforts rather mundane, Blondie started out as…
While we’ve been in the throes of office hell, we’ve noticed some changes going on in cartoonist-land that bear passing along: Alison Bechdel has announced that she’s cutting back on production of her popular Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip from biweekly to monthly, in order to work on her new memoir, which she…
Three of the good folks behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson – have done some work in various media as The Film Crew. On July 10th, they’ll be reuniting for a series of D2DVDs distributed by the Shout! Factory label. According to the official MST3K news site Satellite…
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