Mother Goose and Grimm creator Mike Peters has been sued by the The Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers over a cartoon published last week poking fun at Columbian Crime and Columbian coffee. The federation alleges that Mike’s cartoon “damages the intellectual heritage.” They’re asking for US$20 million. According to Columbiareports.com, Mike has apologized in a […]
» Magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson has relaunched his site with new features.» Jason Killingsworth writes in Paste Magazine the five reasons he still loves Calvin and Hobbes.» Lynn Johnston creates five cartoon thank you cards for med students to give to their patience whom they practice on.» Tom Richmond writes how to work for MAD […]
This year’s Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline for college students is February 6th. Applicants must be students in the US, Canada or Mexico that will be in their Junior or Senior year of college during the 2009-2010 academic year. Applicants DO NOT have to be art majors to be eligible for this scholarship. Those wishing to […]
Mike Lynch has posted the deadlines and requirements for submitting your entry for the National Cartoonist Society’s division awards. The deadline is January 30 and you do not have to be a member of the NCS to be considered, though the work should have been published between December 1 of 2007 and December 31 of […]
The 2008 Weblog Award finalists have been announced. In the category of best comic strip, the final 10 include: Day By Day, Calamities of Nature, Town Called Dobson, Garfield Minus Garfield, What The Duck, The Book of Biff, Medium Large, Dilbert, Jesus and Mo and xkcd.Voting begins sometime today through the 12th. On a related […]
After writing a plucky letter to Time Magazine for their selection of Top 10 editorial cartoons for 2008, AAEC President Ted Rall has written a letter to the editor of Newsweek regarding their cartoon selections. It reads:To the Editor: There’s a saying among political cartoonists: “I thought my cartoon was good. But then it appeared […]
Corey Pandolph’s Barkeater Lake turns 10 years old this year. It was first called Social Order and ran in the Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, ME before being picked up in 2002 by United Media and ran on comics.com with the new title Barkeater Lake. In commemoration of the last 10 years, Corey has launched […]