Virginia Tech comics
We recently got an email from a Brazillian cartoonist named Latuff who had posted some comics based on the Virginia Tech shootings at Deviant Art. Although we found the comics to be strong stuff,...
Hutch Owen’s Spider Week
While Spider-Week rages throughout New York's five burroughs -- and Spider-Man 3 has opened to record box office in Asia -- Tom Hart presents his own special brand of Spider Week with Hutch Owen.
Tom...
Humor can be funny–sometimes
The above strip, from Chris Muir's DAY BY DAY, has become a bit of a teapot tsunami for political blogospherians who make a living expressing outrage at each other's statement. To be honest, we...
News and notes
§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching on the US as well.
The practice of adapting stories...
Boy on a Stick and Slither goes to Comics.com
As the line between comic strips and webcomics continues to blur, more of Ted Rall's handiwork is visible at United Media, as Steven L. Cloud's webcomic BOY ON A STICK AND SLITHER has just...
Rall on Maakies
Ted Rall's Maakies strip has finally been published..
There's a long history here, but the short version is that Tony Millionaire and Ted Rall agreed to do versions of each others strips back in 2003,...
Pibgorn to return to the web
Here's a story going around that strikes us as hiving quite a bit of interest. PIBGORN was one of United Media's wwebcomics (yes they have them) by Brooke McEldowney, the creator of the popular...
Catch-up news: Burford, etc.
Some interesting stuff that we caught on our spin around the web:
§Brendan Burford named to replace the late Jay Kennedy:
Brendan Burford has been named comics editor of King Features Syndicate, effective immediately. The appointment...
SUTTON IMPACT ends
Ward Sutton writes to say he is wrapping up his SUTTEN IMPACT strip which ran in the Village Voice among other places.
In the last couple weeks I made a big decision: to retire...
RIP Brant Parker
Wow, they're going fast. 'Wizard of Id' cartoonist Brant Parker has died at age 86, Parker of course collaborated on Id with Johnny Hart who passed away last week. Parker had given up...
Morning News Briefs
§ Alex Raymond's space adventurer Flash Gordon returns in a new TV show on the SciFi channel, starring Eric Johnson:
The 22-hour series is set to debut in August with Gordon, backed by his...
Johnny Hart Remembered
Much much remembrance to mark the passing of cartoonist Johnny Hart. The syndicate has already announced that his two strips -- B.C. and The Wizard of ID -- will continue. Family members had already...
