Good news for employees at the Charlotte Observer, their editor Rick Thames has decided to cut the number of pages in the paper rather than jobs.“Given a choice of where to reduce costs, I?m going to do my best to keep the great staff that we have,” Thames said, citing myriad studies that show readers […]
Mark Anderson’s blog reports that the Masters of American Comics exhibit will be traveling to Milwaukee between April 29 and August 13, 2006.You can read more about the exhibit and get more details (tickets and contact information) at Milwaukee Art Musuem’s web site.
The Boondocks television series has been nominated for “Outstanding Comedy Series” by the NAACP. Other shows nominated for that category include: “The Bernie Mac Show,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Girlfriends,” “Half & Half.” The winner will be announced when the awards show is broadcast on March 3rd.
American cartoonists will join up with their counterparts from across the pond for a cartoon event called “Drawing Inspiration: The Art of the Editorial Cartoon” sponsored by the French Institute Alliance Francaise.With eye-catching imagery and clever wordplay, an editorial cartoon says far more than a thousand-word article, inspiring us to look at a topic from […]
According to this New York Post story(free registration required), the New York Times is losing 20% of it’s local market in the boroughs between 2001 and 2004. Since the mid-1990s, the Times has embarked on a strategy to expand nationally to reduce its dependence on the New York ad market while going head-to-head with other […]
Emerald Nuts’ advertising blitz leading up to the Super Bowl will feature the artwork of two New Yorker cartoonists J.C. Duffy and Jack Ziegler. I wish I had more information, but the quote below is the only thing mentioned in the story. I’ll keep my eyes open for more information as we get closer to […]
Comic book legend Stan Lee will speak in Springfield Ohio on the 24th of January. You can get details at the Springfield News-Sun, including a audio slide show and directions to the event.While he still holds the title of chairman emeritus at Marvel, and continues to write the same syndicated ?Amazing Spider-Man? newspaper strip he […]
According to E&P, two comic strip artists will appear at the upcoming WonderCon, a comic book convention held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Frank Cho, whose feature “Liberty Meadows” is syndicated by Creators and Romona Fradon, the former artist for “Brenda Starr” will appear. WonderCon runs February 10 through 12.If I’m not mistaken, […]
Back in December, I posted a story about Camp Snoopy losing the right to use the Peanut character’s name. According to this story, negotiations between the supermall and United Media have failed and Camp Snoopy will have to change it’s name.The Bloomington supermall has been unable to come to terms with United Media, which licenses […]
Pat Brady, creator of Rose is Rose is one of the judges for the Scripps Howard Fundation’s annual journalism awards.The Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of 43 journalists, media professionals and educators who will judge this year’s National Journalism Awards competition. The awards program honors excellence in 17 print, electronic and journalism education […]
Efforts are underway to create an exhibit to honor Hal Foster, creator of Prince Valient. Harold R. Foster was a native of Nova Scotia. According to his obituary in 1982, written by the Associated Press, he rode a bicycle to Chicago–1,670 miles over 14 days–around 1919 to attend the Art Institute and the Chicago Academy […]
The Lexington Art League has a yearly exhibit of international artists drawing the nude figure. Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant was a judge and will be speaker.For the Nude International 2006 exhibit, Patrick Oliphant, Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist, anonymously juried 832 entries. Mr. Oliphant selected the 106 displayed artworks. From the classics to the […]
There are two stories out of Editor and Publisher about Michael Ramirez’s move the the Investor’s Business Daily.The first explains why Michael decided to go to a niche publication rather than a general daily.“Bill O’Neil, IBD’s founder and chairman, was very convincing,” replied Ramirez, when interviewed Tuesday by E&P. “And he offered me a position […]
I saw this post on several sites yesterday. If you’ve ever wondered about studying at the “Center for Cartoon Studies” (or even wondered what goes on there), this is a great post one individuals visit to their open house. Lots of photos. I recently had the opportunity to attend an Open House at the Center […]
There is a must read on Windsor McKay and the incredible breadth of work that he did. I was not aware that he had created anything other than “Little Nemo,” but he had a successful strip called “The Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend” which was more dark and for an adult reader. He was also […]