Posted on: March 26, 2010

Jan Eliot’s “Stone Soup” is, quietly, one of the smartest strips out there. It’s not exactly based on her life, but she went through some rough spots and, as in the folk tale for which the strip is named, got by with a little of this and a little of that. Jan reports that, to […]

I’ll be traveling to Tucson next week. Monday will probably be light on the blogging, but the rest of the week should be normal level of news. If you live in the Tucson area and would like to meet up for dinner, I’d love to talk shop. E-mail me.

Back in February, I alerted you that Dan Piraro was launching a Bizarro app in the iTunes app store. This week, it was placed in the “New and Noteworthy” section of the app store.King Feature has dropped the price of the app from $1.99 to $.99 for a limited time. If your procrastinated (like me) […]

Editorial cartoonists Terry (“Aislin”) Mosher of the The Gazette, Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail and Malcolm Mayes of the Edmonton Journal are the finalists for this year’s National Newspaper Award finalists for cartooning. Final award winners will be announced May 14.Best of luck to you three gentlemen.

The more trailers I see, the more I want to see this. Maybe I’ll even take the kids. Movie hits theaters on July 9th.

Paul W.S. Anderson is said to be working on a Buck Rogers 3D feature film. Anderson directed “Alien vs Predator.” The screen play is reportedly being written by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The Buck Rogers character is based on a comic strip of the same name that appeared in 1928.

Trust dear Nemi to find the downside of just about anything.

Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, has returned from a speaking tour in the Middle East. I have just returned from a 12 day visit to Amman, Jordan and Beirut, Lebanon as part of a strategic speaker initiative sponsored by the US Embassies in the region. During my visit I addressed […]

I caught this on Gene Weingarten’s Chatological Humor column. Garry Trudeau emailed Gene a link to a photo on the White House’s Flicker account showing a photo of President Obama on the phone. In the background, on his desk is the Sunday comics. Looking at the enlarged photo, I can’t tell which paper the comics […]

Ruben Bolling has posted news that his strip, Tom the Dancing Bug, has been dropped from Salon.com. I was told that the cancellation was made because of “severe budget constraints,” and that traffic for the comic continued to be good. I know that must be the case; it was consistently on Salon’s “most read” list. […]

Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, the editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine, has launched his first iPhone app. Designed for the iPhone, this new application is an impressive collection of KAL’s award winning political cartoons, hand-picked by the artist himself. Browse through 150+ examples of KAL’s work, including 29 color covers and illustrations from The Economist magazine. […]

The long rumored comic strip by Gene Weingarten, Pulitzer Prize humor columnist for the Washington Post, has a launch date. Michael Cavna reports that the strip is a partnership between Gene, his son Dan and David Clark (1996 NCS Newspaper Illustration division award winner). The strip “Barney and Clyde” launches June 7 and is described […]

Congratulations to Daryl Cagle on this milestone: Ten years ago I was working as a daily cartoonist for Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser. My cagle.com web site was popular and I made a deal with Microsoft’s Slate.com to partner, host and promote the site as part of Slate, which did a lot to boost our audience and […]

Each year, Terry and Patty Laban’s “Edge City” takes time from its normal round of domestic comedy to do a series of strips about Passover. Like Charlie Brown and the football, it’s an annual event those who follow the strip look forward to, but, again like Charlie Brown, it’s not completely isolated. Just as that […]