Blondie cartoonist Dean Young will be taking Dagwood’s sandwich penchant and turning it into a chain of sandwich shops according to the St…. The first show is slated to open mid June in the Palm Harbor strip shopping center.
Today is National Cartoonist day (or at least today is the day it was usually observed) and at least one cartoonist is doing something to mark the day. Dexter Booth, the “cartoonist-in-residence” of the Fredericksburg Times (home of editorial cartoonist Clay Jones) will be at the local museum drawing cartoons for children.
The Montclair Times has posted a job opening for an editorial cartoonist to “local, regional and national issues.”… Skilled with artistic and satirical flair?After more than eight years of creating incisive, poignant, and witty editorial cartoons for The Montclair Times, Bill Valladares will be departing the area for a new job in Georgia.The Times seeks a editorial cartoonist who can nail local, regional and national issues on deadline pressure, usually intertwined with The Times? editorial stances.
Information Week has a story about a new California startup company that is offering a free comic strip service that includes “Girls & Sports” (by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein) and “The Meaning of Lila” (by John Forgetta)…. Peanuts is distributed through Namco; Dilbert can be had through Verizon; Garfield is distributed through Gocomics; and GoGags is also a newly launched product that allows any cartoonist to get into the phonesWill mobile phones be the next comics page?