Australian cartoonist Bill Leak suffered a serious head injury after falling 3-4 meters off a balcony in the Mount White area of Australia’s central coast. He was reportedly feeding parrots with friends at the time of the fall. He was unconscious immediately after the fall and was flown by helicopter and had emergency brain surgery […]
Universal Press Syndicate’s uClick division has released a iGoogle gadget that allows anyone to view their favorite GoComics comic strips and editorial cartoons on their personalized iGoogle home pages.From the GoComic’s blog:We are truly excited here at Uclick to offer this new gadget, which was many months in the making. It gives iGoogle users direct […]
The legendary Opus is leaving the papers after November 2, but which features will take its place? I’ve asked the syndicates which features are being picked up to replace Berkeley Breathed‘s strip. Here’s what initial reports indicate:United Media reports that Pearls Before Swine has picked up four papers: Columbus Dispatch, Hartford Courant, Boulder (CO) Camera, […]
Tom Toles is not the only editorial cartoonist that is being watched by the Obama/Biden campaign. A CBS News blog reports that a Daryl Cagle cartoon was mentioned by Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden at an Ohio University rally yesterday. Biden remarked, “There’s a cartoon, I don’t know if you guys saw this, it’s John […]
» Comic Book Resources reports that Cartoon Network is developing a number of webcomics for television that competed on Zuda. The first treatment is Peter Timony’s Night Owls. Other possible animated series include: Bayou, High Moon, Black Cherry Bombshells and Supertron.» Randall Munroe’s XKCD joked that someone should create a program that reads your YouTube […]
Hector Cant’u and Carlos Castellanos’ Baldo comic strip will feature independent comic book superhero “El Muerto” (The Dead One) during the last week of October and on the first and second day of November – the Day of the Dead holiday for many Latinos. “The Day of the Dead is a special holiday for lots […]
A couple of years ago, I posted a summary of an article that predicted the collapse of the print newspaper within a decade. We’ve had this conversation on this blog since then and the opinions vary. This last summer has been horrific for those in the business. Massive lay-offs, slumping stock values, unpaid debt. For […]
The Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji, IA is holding it’s annual Toon-ed exhibit featuring the cartoons of aspiring college cartoonists from across the United States. All college students (over 18) are invited to participate. The categories for judging include magazine cartoons, greeting cards, comic books, political cartoons, illustrations, manga and anime, comic strips and […]
The Herb Block Foundation that awards the yearly Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning has announced they are increasing the cash prize amount from $10,000 to $15,000 according to E&P. They’ve also announced that this year’s judges will include Garry Trudeau, Jules Feiffer and last year’s winner John Sherffius. Additionally, they’ve increased the number of cartoons […]
» Comic Book Resources looks at the career of Oliver Harrington.» Greeting card cartoonist Mike Scovel was named 2008 Cartoonist of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.» Frazz creator Jef Mallett is profiled in the San Antonio Express News.» Berkeley Breathed is scheduled to be at the Charles M. Schulz museum to talk […]
Chip Bok, who announced last week that he was taking a voluntary buy out from the Akron Beacon Journal and today would be his last day, now tells me that there has been a slight change. He’ll continue on with the paper until November 7 – election day.
With the announcement of Jim Lange’s retirement and Chip Bok’s buy out this week, I’ve compiled a list of editorial cartoonists who have left the print medium in the last three years that this blog has been operating. I did not count those who left a print job for another print job. With the exception […]
Starting this Wednesday, I’ll be starting what I hope to be a weekly feature called the Webcomic Weekly News Roundup where I post that goings on of new comics, books, and news in general about the webcomic industry. If you’ve got a news tip for your own comic or something that has been blogged about, […]
This week Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, will use his strip to push California’s Proposition 2, a ballot measure that would stop factory farm abuse. MM: Why is Prop 2 important to you, and what can your readers do to help? PM: Because 20 million animals will be directly impacted, suffering less, if this measure […]
Berkeley Breathed will be giving away $10,000 to a dog or cat shelter of a readers choice in conjunction to the Opus ending contest that was announced last week. The contest asks for readers to send in a one sentence entry guessing where Opus will be in his final paradise. The announcement says that clues […]