News Briefs for February 11, 2009
» The Examiner’s Nate Beeler was honored last night for having won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T….
Industry news for the professional cartoonist
» The Examiner’s Nate Beeler was honored last night for having won the 2008 Clifford K. Berryman and James T….
New York Comic Con was last weekend and Publisher’s Weekly has a couple of articles on what the Con might…
Webcomicker Paul Southworth has announced that he’s ending his long running comic Ugly Hill. Digital Strips talks to Paul about…
The Houston Chronicle has a profile of Jeff Kinney, the creator of the best selling series “Diary of a Whimpy…
Mike LeFort of the Rapid City Journal has responded to a reader complaint over the use of the word “squaw”…
Jon Stewart talks to Walter Isaacson author of the Time cover story “How to Save Your Newspaper.”
1981 report on newspapers online is a story from KRON in San Francisco about The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle’s forays into online news in 1981.
» Australian Special Broadcasting Service has posted a transcript of an interview it did with political cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Topics…
There are a limited number of individuals who are doing both a syndicated comic and webcomic at the same time….
Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly has an extensive write up in The Daily Gazette (NY) about his career in the…
Several of the better-known weekly cartoonists have been sounding the alarms over alternate weekly newspapers dropping their features in order to adjust for the recession.
To those who have been commenting this week and not seeing your comments posted, I’ve approved them. Apparently as I…
Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher is featured in a new online only museum called the Forward Thinking Museum. The virtual museum is…
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is dishing out advice for would be comic creators. His first round of advice:…
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac was a weekly feature in the Washington Post years before it became a daily syndicated…
What started as informal brainstorming sessions between friends has now become a formal partnership on Steve Breen’s Grande Avenue comic…