Mr. Fish (AKA Dwayne Booth), the alternative cartoonist for the Village Voice and LA Weekly has been let go from his position in a “cost-cutting” measure. He wrote Daryl Cagle a letter of explanation which has been posted on cagle.com. Here’s the salient part: Haven’t we learned anything from the New Coke fiasco from the […]
Last Friday I reported that The Observer, an independent student run paper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s, apologized for running an anti-gay cartoon. The assistant editor, Kara King, has resigned saying, “A miscommunication between another editor and myself led to the comic running without me first reading and approving the material. Regardless, no excuse […]
I’m taking the day off to spend time with the family as we all have the day off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.I’ll see you back here tomorrow.–Alan
A Jeff Koterba cartoon making fun of Senator Harry Reid’s comments regarding President Obama’s skin color was pulled from Tuesday’s edition due to concerns over how it would be interpreted. The cartoon depicts Reid as a census taker asking three African-Americans, “Now then, would you gentlemen say you are ‘black,’ ‘African-American,’ or ‘Negro’?”In an email […]
The Observer, an independent college paper serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s campuses has issued an apology for allowing an anti-gay cartoon run in their Wednesday’s paper. The three panel cartoon depicts two charcters in conversation saying, “What is the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?” “No idea.” “A baseball bat.” […]
Editor & Publisher has been sold to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. paving the way to resume the publication of the newspaper industry bible as of today. The details of the purchase are not released. According to an article posted on E&P’s website, Greg Mitchell, Joe Strupp and a number of other staffers are not being […]
Eric Millikin, interviews cartoonist Larry Wright for the The Comics Journal: EM: The Detroit News, which featured editorial cartoons by both you and Henry Payne up until recently, and before that both you and Draper Hill, has to be one of the last major metro dailies to have two editorial cartoonists on staff. LW: The […]
The Village Voice’s Brian Parks has ranked last year’s best New Yorker cartoonists. The article doesn’t specify the judging criteria. Top ranking cartoonists included: Paul North, John O’Brien, Alex Gregory, Drew Dernavich and Danny Shanahan. Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff landed at #7.
Kurt Westergaard, the most famous of the Mohammad cartoon creators, has been under Danish police protection for the last couple of years. Politiken reports that the new bodyguard system operated by PET (the Danish Intelligence and Security Service) will cost an annual equivalent of US $3.8 million for salaries alone. His home has also been […]
Mr. Media, AKA Bob Andelman recently interviewed Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis about the strips first collection: “A Boy Named Curtis”
I admit, I never tire of talking tools. Not the stuff found at the Home Depot, but the local art supply store. I don’t believe that any particular pen, paper or pencil will make any cartoonist funnier or produce more clever cartoons, but I’m fascinated by the tools cartoonists keep in their quiver. Last year, […]
The fine folks at King Features have sent out an advisory to its Daily Ink subscribers telling them they should use Firefox and not Internet Explorer 8 to view their Dailyink.com account to to performance issues. The advisory states that the issues “are related to the browser, not the dailyink.com site itself.”
Editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg writes about the loss of a newspaper to cover the cost of entering cartooning contests and the forced decision making that comes with it. So I am forced to tally up costs and estimate odds, and forced to pick and choose. Is it worth it for me to cough up $75 […]
Penny Arcade, the succesful online webcomic portal, is looking for a full time associate designer and has posted a job listing on Linked In. Penny Arcade embraces, and at the same time sticks it’s tongue out, at everything video game and sci fi/fantasy related, which has allowed it to garner a huge online following. If you’re in […]
Creators Syndicate will launch a new comic by Brett Koth entitled Diamond Lil on March 1. In an interview with Scott Nickel, Brett described the feature as “Lillian Bilious is a blue-haired 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same house in the same small town all her life (Turkey Knuckle, Indiana). She enjoys saying […]