Slate’s Michael Kinsley has a good article on the newspaper’s efforts to play catch-up in the new techno world. Ten years later, newspapers are starting to panic again. But merely slobbering after bloggers may not be enough. In 1996, the oldest Americans who grew up with computers and don’t even understand my tiresome anecdotes about […]
The Daily World has picked up Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman’s Zits – but at the expense of Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rod Perry’s ‘Brevity’.?Zits,? which has become one of America?s hottest comic strips in the past three years, makes its daily debut in The Daily World today. The King Features strip by Jerry Scott and […]
If you’re following the ‘dating’ life of Knight Ridder newspaper, this article will give you and update on who’s interested to buy the chain.A financial buyer, such as the new consortium, would take on a heavy debt load and likely cut jobs, install new management and sell off noncore and struggling assets to improve the […]
On the Editorial Cartoonist web site, they’re reposting a story that ran in the “The Business Journal of Phoenix” regarding the plight of the editorial cartoonist. Not much new, but it does talk abit about Steve Benson (AZ Republic), Brian Fairrington (Cagle Cartoons – living in the Phoenix area).Those who have made editorial cartooning their […]
Fans of Michael Jantze’s work, The Norm, will be interested in the release of a new Sunday collection. Available for the first time ever, The Norm Sunday Collection documents the evolution of Michael Jantze’s wildly unique Sunday work. With insight into Michael’s hybrid writing process as well as his approach to illustration using the latest […]
If you’ve done a great cartoon on the topic of call centers, or have a good idea (the cartoon does not have to be published) you might want to enter the Contact Center Cartoon Contest. You get $1 for every vote your cartoon gets with the winning cartoonist taking an additional $3,000 home. Second and […]
Like the statues of the Peanuts gang in Saint Paul Minnesota, the Garfield crew will soon be immortalized throughout Grant County Indiana with statues as a tourist attraction. Town Council member Sue Smith thinks the project will be a great addition to Fairmount’s history. “I think it’s a wonderful thing,” she said. “Of course, James […]
For those of you who made a new years resolution to go digital this year, this little item caught my eye. It’s a laptop whose screen detaches and becomes a tablet that you draw on. No word on when it becomes available to the consumer or the pricing.
Steve Kelley, a political cartoonist from “The New Orleans Times-Picayune,” will be speaking at the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel’s annual seminar. He’s spoken there before and this year, he speaks before Dan Rather, former CBS News anchor. According to the schedule, his talk is entitled, “Art Irritates Life”.
The Canadian Securities Administrators has launched a web site to help people teach people about investing and saving. The site uses Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse to introduce and discuss the four life events when one ought to be thinking about their finances. Canada’s securities regulators are hoping a new website enlivened by […]
A holiday season give-away prize has been announced for those who bought Patrick McDonnell’s (Mutts) new book “The Gift of Nothing.”Each winner was randomly selected, and recieved a special WINNER button with the purchase of Patrick’s new book, “The Gift of Nothing”. Each was then entered into a special drawing to determine a grand prize […]
I always wondered what how involved Matt Groening (Life in Hell, The Simpsons) was in the production of The Simpsons. I presumed that after 17 years, it had his name on it, but most of the heavy lifting was done by others. According to this article in the Seattle Times, he is still very much […]
At age 90, Morris Weiss, who did the ‘Mickey Finn‘ feature from 1968 to 1976, is a living link to a generation of cartoonists that have faded into history. The West Palm Beach resident is 90, tall, slender, white-haired, soft-voiced. Married for 61 years to wife Blanche, with four kids, he offers up many rich […]
E&P has a story on why Nick Anderson is leaving the Courier-Journal for the Houston Chronicle.Whatever the attractions of Houston, Anderson wasn’t looking to go to the Chronicle or anywhere else. “They contacted me out of the blue in August or September,” he recalled. “I was skeptical. I had the perfect situation in Louisville.” Anderson […]
The Cartoon Art Museum will spotlight Will Eisner on February 5th.Will Eisner, one of the most influential and respected cartoonists of all time, passed away on Monday, January 3, following complications from open-heart surgery. Eisner is renowned worldwide as one of the most important creators in the history of comics, with a career spanning nearly […]