King Features will begin to syndicate Jeff MacNelly’s Shoe starting September 1 for dailies and the 7th for Sundays. The strip is currently produced by Gary Brookins, Chris Cassatt and Jeff’s widow Susie. “We are delighted to be syndicating the creation of one of the country’s all-time top cartooning talents,” said Brendan Burford, King Features […]
Alt-cartoonist Jen Sorensen asks and then answers why she believes there are so few women cartoonists. My short (and admittedly Zen-like) explanation is that there are so few female political cartoonists largely because there are so few female political cartoonists. Drawing cartoons and comics has traditionally been a guy thing-a somewhat nerdy guy thing, but […]
» The News Observer has added two new features in their paper (in trial mode). They’ve started to run Dog Eat Doug and Tina’s Groove. The two will run through September 6.» The Daily News (WA), is replacing outgoing Diesel Sweeties with It’s All About You. They also decided to permanently drop Doonesbury citing how […]
After 11,000 cartoons, Palm Beach Post cartoonist Don Wright leaves the paper tomorrow. He accepted a buyout last month. He’ll finish out the year drawing cartoons for Tribune Media Syndicate before deciding how much a cartooning he wants to do.
If you’re a fan of the Macintosh and all things Apple, you’ll get a kick out of this parody.See more over at Gizmodo.
Allan Holtz over at the Strippers Guide has posted an interesting article written and published by Rube Goldberg in April 1923 about his views on editorial cartooning. People have learned that the comic art ist is not shooting at the moon. He is try ing to hit something that is very near you â?? in […]
Today marks the 75 anniversary for Alley Oop. The feature was originally created by Vincent T. Hamlin’s who worked the strip until he retired in 1973. His assistant Dave Graue took over the strip until 1990 when it was passed to Jack Bender who now works on the strip with his wife Carole. It is […]
E&am;p reports that Continental Features is launching two new features entitled Gilley & Wynn by Daryl Jay Frank’s and Blackouts by Ellsworth E. Jackson. A quick search for cartoon samples could not be found.
A recent Matt Bors editorial cartoon regarding Salim Hamdan, the alleged Al Qaeda terrorist and Osama Bin Laden driver, made its way to Guantanamo Bay where it was translated for Salim by his attorneys. Apparently to his glee.Matt writes on his blog: Through the miracle of e-mail forwarding technology, the comic made its way down […]
Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson talks to Panels and Pixels blogger Chris Mautner about his career and work before the launch of his syndicated daily. Before there was Cul De Sac, Richard did (and still does) a weekly feature called Richard’s Poor Almanac. Q: How would you describe that strip? Was it a social […]
The New England Associated Press News Executives Association (NEAPNEA) has announced the winners of its 2008 design contest. In the Illustration category Class I, Don Landgren, Jr. of the Telegram & Gazette won first and third place awards. Bob Rich of the The Republican won second place and Dave Granlund formerly of The MetroWest Daily […]
The artwork of Tak Toyoshima, creator of Secret Asian Man, will be featured in two upcoming exhibits. Beginning Aug. 15 and running through Sept. 14, Tak’s work will be featured in the Napa Valley Museum for their “Manga & Anime: An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon Art” exhibit. Also featured in this exhibit is Deb Aoki […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston will be the guest of honor at this year’s Doug Wright Awards ceremony. She’ll also be inducted into the “Giants of the North” Canadian Cartoonists’ Hall of Fame this Friday night in Toronto.
Jack Shafer of Slate has written a commentary in Business Spectator about the demise of the print newspaper. In essence he maintains that the social web (Facebook, etc.) has replaced the newspaper’s traditional role of social currency. Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its […]
» Scott Hiburn, creator of The Argyle Sweater gets a call from Dear Abby.» Brad Veley, gag cartoonist, is profiled by WLUC.» Clarion Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey will be on MPB Radio’s Mississippi Edition tomorrow morning at around 8:30 a.m.» French cartoonist Maurice Sinet (AKA “Siné”) wrote a scathing (and some call anti-Semitic) article […]