The Times Union marks that 40 years ago last Thursday was the first time the Peanut character Franklin appeared in print and its significance in race relations in America during that time of U.S. history. Franklin was never as big a star as Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder or Pigpen. He didn’t have a last name […]
I believe we’ve discussed this topic on this blog before, but Mike Lynch ran a poll among his readers asking which 20th century cartoonist was the most influential. According to his readers, Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, and Milton Caniff were the top five. He discusses the results on his blog.
Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star, is having an art show at the JCC (Jewish Community Center) in Indianapolis on Thursday night at 6:00 p.m. The show, called “Varvelous” will include around 30 of his original political cartoons, caricature paintings of Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning and a few sketches and prints. His […]
Jerry Beck of Cartoon Brew has crowned Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy by Jack Pierce the worst comic strip ever. When I seek out films for my Worst Cartoons Ever! screenings or Cartoon Dump I look for animation so bad it’s unintentionally funny. So when I came across a batch of old issues of My […]
The Washington Post has cobbled together interviews with Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonists Steve Breen, Mike Luckovich, and Signe Wilkinson on how they approach caricaturing the Democratic and Republican Presidential hopefuls. Below is an interview that they did with Steve, presumably at the San Diego Comic Con. Also, check out the photo gallery of their cartoons.
Nick Anderson, President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists and cartoonist for the Houston Chronicle, has released the following statement regarding the recent number of editorial cartoonist positions being eliminated. Everyone understands that these are tough times for newspapers, but they have gone from full panic mode to suicide mode. Many editorial cartoonists are […]
What is becoming known as “he Midsummer Massacre” may not be over. A couple of news reports indicate that more job cuts are coming for select chain newspapers. Bloomberg reports that A.H. Belo Corp., the publisher of the Dallas Morning News and three other dailies, will trim 500 newspaper jobs. It’s unreported how many of […]
Dave Astor at E&P is reporting that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial cartoonist Stuart Carlson has been “forced” to take a buyout. In an email Stuart wrote to milwaukeeworld.com he says, ‘Fraid it’s true. Given the cutbacks planned at the JS I was told they could no longer “justify” having a full-time editorial cartoonist. Although I’m […]
Last month, I told you that Retail creator Norm Feuti was working on a second strip entitled Gill. He has posted the Gill syndication submission online. He writes: Well, so far Gill has received a “pass” from both King Features and Universal Press. Both Brendan Burford (my editor at King) and John Glynn (the comic […]
The company that I host with has notified me that they applied an update last night to the server that The Daily Cartoonist runs on. The “fix” has caused issues that has affected whether TDC loads or not.The issue should be resolved soon, but until then, thanks for your patience.UPDATE: The site has been up […]
The Beat is reporting that Ballantine books will be printing a collection of the Garfield Minus Garfield strips by Dan Walsh. From their press release: The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison. Dublin, Ireland-based Garfield Minus Garfield […]
Last Friday’s Candorville contained language that the Washington Post objected to (the word “nuts” in the context of male anatomy). Instead of pulling Darrin Bell’s feature as they have in the past, Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) Comics Editor Amy Lago says they were supplied an alternate version. Amy was quoted by E&P as saying, […]
Ted Rall writes in his column this week that newspapers could save themselves if they “take three audacious but absolutely essential steps, the print newspaper industry can save itself.” Those steps include: 1. taking newspapers offline, 2. copyrighting all articles they write, and 3. cut off the wire services. All of these steps, he argues […]
The two tunisian nations that were arrested for allegedly planning to kill Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard will appeal their case to the Supreme Court. Last week an appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that the two should remain in jail pending their trial. The Supreme Court will decide whether they will hear the case.
» Dan Reynold’s Reynolds Unwrapped is now back on gocomics.com after a year or so hiatus.» You’ll Have That creator Wes Molebash has moved his strip to a new web site yhtcomic.com» Brooke McEldowney, creator of 9 Chickweed Lane and webcomic Pibgorn is updating the latter strip five times a week now. The Pibgorn sketches […]