Family Circus creator, Bil Keane, has died at 89. He started Family Circus in 1960 and served as President of the National Cartoonists Society from 1981 to 1983. Bil Keane's son Jeff is expected to take over the strip. Family Circus is still in wide circulation.
© C Harris Lynn, 2011
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Showing posts with label cartooning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartooning. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Monday, November 08, 2010
Berke Breathed - A Nostalgic Interlude
Ain't It Cool has an excellent interview with Berke Breathed, creator of Bloom County, The Outlands, Opus, and other comic strips. Breathed is classy, yet still hilarious, as he answers numerous questions regarding working in the cartooning industry, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the death of newspapers, and more.
Really interesting profile of a cartooning legend and an interesting look inside his mind. Breathed insists he received little respect from fellow cartoonists, whom he says pegged him as the "fraud" he was, but I was blissfully unaware of that during Bloom County's run. As the interview explains, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes stand as the closers for the American comic strip, but forerunners such as Garfield and B.C. set the stage.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
Really interesting profile of a cartooning legend and an interesting look inside his mind. Breathed insists he received little respect from fellow cartoonists, whom he says pegged him as the "fraud" he was, but I was blissfully unaware of that during Bloom County's run. As the interview explains, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes stand as the closers for the American comic strip, but forerunners such as Garfield and B.C. set the stage.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
2010 Record Year for Syndicated Comic Strips
So far, seven features have been launched this year -- four more than in 2009 -- and most were launched prior to Cathy Guisewite's announcement that she is ending her long-running, award-winning feature, Cathy, after 34 years. The Chicago Tribune enlarged its comics features earlier this year, as well, leading one to wonder if the Comics page is on its way back in?
Obviously, this is an attempt to improve circulation and save the newspaper -- which is quickly fading, largely due to the rise of the Internet and smart phones. Will it work? It certainly can't hurt. In fact, the newspaper industry owes a lot to the Comics page, and it could be argued -- probably isn't anywhere near the truth, but it still could be argued -- that newspapers survived the advent of TV with the Comics page, yet isn't faring so well with the advent of the Internet... without said Comics page. Huh? Right?
Our colleagues over to Comics Alliance have a Rundown on all seven features, including samples from each.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
Obviously, this is an attempt to improve circulation and save the newspaper -- which is quickly fading, largely due to the rise of the Internet and smart phones. Will it work? It certainly can't hurt. In fact, the newspaper industry owes a lot to the Comics page, and it could be argued -- probably isn't anywhere near the truth, but it still could be argued -- that newspapers survived the advent of TV with the Comics page, yet isn't faring so well with the advent of the Internet... without said Comics page. Huh? Right?
Our colleagues over to Comics Alliance have a Rundown on all seven features, including samples from each.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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