Posted on: June 13, 2007

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) editorial cartoonist Frank Cammuso also has a blog which he’s maintained since March of this year. He is now among the growing number of editorial cartoonists that have one.

Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger, will be honored this August with a cancer research golf tournament benefit in his name. Marshall’s involvement with cancer and cancer research data back to 2001 when he was diagnosed with Melanoma Cancer when he was 32 years old. As a cancer survivor, he’s helped organize the annual […]

Over on Lee Glover’s blog, “Mice Laugh Softly Charlotte” he’s got a rare treat that will only be posted for the next couple of weeks (next 4 to be exact). It’s a rarely seen animation circa 1935 called Teched in the Head and featured the “debut of comic-strip character Barney Google.” Tetched in the Head […]

On August 9, the Charles M. Schulz Museum will celebrate its 5th anniversary. There will be live music and free ice cream cake to go with the free admission that evening.In other museum news, Scott McCloud will be on hand on August 18 and Tom Tomorrow, creator of This Modern World, is scheduled to visit […]

Rob Harrell, who created (and ended) Big Top will have his first solo art show at the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin TX June 9th through July 12. You can see a slide show of his work at the Gallery’s web site. The fine art is impressive.Hat tip: Eric at Talk About Comics blog.UPDATE: More […]

For those keeping count (you are aren’t you?), I have posted over 2,000 blog posts now in the 20 months of being on the web. As impressive as that is, it is dwarfed by the 53,590 pieces of spam that has been caught in the spam filter (and I didn’t add the filter until about […]

Secret Asian Man © Tak Toyoshima / Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Used by permissionUnited Media will be launching a new feature on July 16 called Secret Asian Man by Tak Toyoshima. The feature centers around Osamu “SAM” Takahashi, a struggling comic strip artist, who is a second generation Japanese American growing up in […]

Last Sunday’s Opus has riled those on the right as Berkley Breathed’s Sunday-only depicts two kids talking about David Dinkle having two moms and no dad. The last panel has one character saying, “Makes you wonder how he’ll do without a male role model in the house” while an beer drinking, cigarette smoking Steve (clad […]

Last Sunday, Mike Lynch was going to panel a discussion on cartooning and Long Island along with Bunny Hoest and Stan Goldberg. Mike has posted photos of the event.

Last week I alerted you that Allan Holtz was asking readers of his blog, the Stripper’s Guide, if he should post copies of some George Herriman cartoons dating back to 1906 that he found while looking in the Los Angeles Examiner’s archives. He’s decided to post them. Enjoy.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich and Rubin comic panel creator Leigh Rubin have both been honored by ForeWord Magazine’s annual book awards in the category of humor according to EampP;

Last week I mentioned that Baldo artist Carlos Castellanos had posted a video of him drawing his characters on YouTube. Here is the second video he’s posted with a mention that a third is to come.

From the Comics Journal comes news that Roger Armstrong has passed away at the age of 89 last Thursday. Roger was best known for his work on Warner Brother and Disney animation projects, but also drew a number of syndicated strips including Bugs Bunny and Little Lulu.

I’ve been subscribed to Scott Stantis’ RSS feed for a while now, so I was a bit embarrassed when a reader emailed me tell me about his blog and I realized I hadn’t even mentioned it yet. Scott, who is the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News has been posting his cartoons via the blog […]

Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac has been picked up by Universal Press for syndicate this September. Richard Thompson, is perhaps better known for his weekly comic, Richard’s Poor Almanac that runs in the Washington Post. Cul de Sac was also a weekly created for the Post and has ran in that paper for the last […]