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As their last comic goes on sale today, it’s time to say Farewell, Bongo Comics

10/17/2018 3:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

As their last comic goes on sale today, it’s time to say Farewell, Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics ends its 25 year run today but it will never be forgotten.

Filed Under: Publishers, Top News Tagged With: bill morrison, bongo comics, futurama, Gail Simone, ian boothby, Matt Groening, nina matsumoto, oral historys, Simpsons

SDCC ’17: Watchtower Saturday:

07/22/2017 8:15 pm by Torsten Adair

Day Four…   of Five.  DC and Marvel are competing in Hall H today. (Marvel is last, so you’ll have to wait for tomorrow to get the low-down.) Quite a lot of stuff!  DC and Marvel hold their big panels today, most people have the day off, so let’s get going! Ready Player One – […]

Filed Under: News, SDCC '17 Tagged With: Comic-Con International, DC Extended Universe, Matt Groening, Ready Player One, Star Trek, UNICEF, Watchtower

Comic Arts LA will rekindle your love for comics

12/08/2015 10:30 am by Henry Barajas

Comic Arts LA will rekindle your love for comics

Comic Arts LA was a show to make you happy about comics and inspire you for the next 12 months.

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Bryan Lee O'Malley, CA LA, comic arts la, Farel Dalrymple, Hazel Newlevant, Jaime Hernandez, lisa hanawalt, Matt Groening, Noelle Stevenson, The Simpsons

Based on these photos, Comic Arts LA was swell

12/07/2015 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Based on these photos, Comic Arts LA was swell

The second annual Comics Arts LA festival was held yesterday, in its first year as a two-day show. It’s the Los Angeles stop on the Premiere Indie Comics Circuit, and had a strong influence from the local animation community, as befits its founders, Jen Wang, Angie Wang. Iris Jong and Jake Mumm, several of whom have ties to that community. While I haven’t found any detailed write-ups, it seems like everyone was up on their socials, with happy photos of comics and people all backlit with the warm, golden sun of early winter downtown LA.

Filed Under: CAFs, Top News Tagged With: CAFs, CALA 2015, Matt Groening, Top News

A short film about Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman has much to teach us

10/20/2015 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

A short film about  Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman has much to teach us

Reid Fleming and David Boswell are two of the great legendary figures of the 80s black and white comics boom – Canadian born cartoonist Boswell created an enduring character in the irascible delivery man Reid Fleming whose bellicose shouts — “I thought I told you to shut up!” — and hostile approach to dairy deposits made him an angry everyman hero. The character became incredibly popular during its ’80s run, and a big studio movie was contemplated, with Boswell writing the script, until the project reached a film exec who didn’t get the unique, absurd humor of the comic. The rest, as they say, is a cartoonist’s life.

Filed Under: Cartoonists, History, Top News Tagged With: 80s comics, charlie tyrell, david boswell, History, jonathan demme, Matt Groening, reid fleming, Top News

SDCC 2014: Watchtower Saturday

07/27/2014 6:00 pm by Torsten Adair

SDCC 2014: Watchtower Saturday

  Movie Wars: Saturday Edition *YAWN* DC wins, barely.  They showed the new Wonder Woman costume, and what sounds like an awesome trailer. Marvel?  More cast for “Antman”, the announcement of “GotG 2”, and a teaser peek for “Age of Ultron”. DC didn’t announce anything from other movies (as rumored by Nikki Finke.  Here’s her […]

Filed Under: SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: Daniel Radcliffe, Matt Groening, trademarks

Matt Groening explains why you need an Apple computer…in 1989

11/20/2012 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Matt Groening explains why you need an Apple computer…in 1989

In 1989 The Simpsons were still on the drawing board, an cartoonist Matt Groening was a freelance illustrators, and Apple was a rising company whose ungainly, boxlike beige computers boasted lordly hard drives of 40 mbs.

Filed Under: 90s Comics, Old Comics Tagged With: Apple, Matt Groening

When Matt Groening Started Talking About Quitting

06/20/2012 11:14 pm by Todd Allen

When Matt Groening Started Talking About Quitting

Yes, the world is a little stunned by the announcement of Matt Groening quitting Life In Hell. It isn’t like this hasn’t been threatened though. Back in November of 2009, roughly two and a half years ago, the Chicago Humanities Festival had a panel on the declining market for Alt Weekly comics. Groening was there. Lynda Barry was there. Chris Ware was there. Jules Feiffer was even there. And back then, Groening was already talking about quitting.

Filed Under: Cartoonists, Comings & Goings Tagged With: Matt Groening

New Logo Mania: Bongo gets new logo, new creative director; Matt Groening gets secret projects

01/27/2012 3:36 pm by Heidi MacDonald

New Logo Mania: Bongo gets new logo, new creative director; Matt Groening gets secret projects

Bongo is the successful comics publishing company that nobody knows about. Although it will celebrate its 17th anniversary this year, and has mastered the periodical-to-trade business model, and has been happily plugging along publishing essentially creator driven comics for all that time….no one in the comics industry EVER talks about Bongo. Sure, publishing Simpsons comics seems like a no-brainer…but do you think the books would have lasted this long as a licensed title at DC or Marvel?

Well, now there have been some changes. And some new branding. It has a new logo to start with—three’s a trend! And long-time art director Nathan Kane has been promoted to Creative Director, replacing Bill Morrison, who, we’re told, has joined Simpsons creator (and Bongo owner) Matt Groening to work on secret projects.

Filed Under: Indie Comics, Retailing & Marketing Tagged With: Matt Groening

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