Posted on: April 23, 2010

Some days, you just need a funny cartoon with a good twist. Hagar the Horrible steps up today, a little better than its average gag and just what I wanted.

After the ruckus caused by the rejection of Mark Fiore NewsToons app from the Apple iTunes App Store – and its later acceptance after Mark received the Pulitzer Prize, The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has penned an open letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs urging him to end the policy of rejecting apps solely […]

Technicolor has announced that it is moving into television animated programming and will begin their efforts by bringing Berkeley Breathed’s Pete & Pickles to the small screen. “I told the folks at Technicolor,” recounts Breathed, “that the only way I could get lured to the world of small screen pixels is if a company were […]

Another award announcement. This time Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for the The Washington Examiner, is taking home this year’s The Thomas Nast Award. Judges’ remarks: Nate Beeler’s entries stood out for their powerful and vivid composition that brings the message home regardless of whether the cartoon centers on a conversation or a visual punch line. […]

Last Sunday’s Beakman and Jax regarding a question about dairy farming has upset many dairy farmers. American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman has reportedly sent a letter to Beakman and Jax creator Jok Church and Universal Press. The comic, which answers children’s questions about science, responded to a question about the age of cows […]

Former Commercial Appeal editorial cartoonist Bill Day was named the winner of the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning. The award honors reporting on issues of “human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world.”Regarding his entry, the judges wrote, “Cartoonist Bill Day […]

Proving the cliche “where one door closes – another one opens” Ruben Bolling has announced that his comic Tom the Dancing Bug will now appear on Boing Boing less than a month after being dropped from Salon.com.Boing Boing is a popular aggregator of news and entertainment the describes itself as, “Media Culture Brainwash for Now […]

  When it first hit the comic pages some 20 years ago, Dilbert was a breath of fresh air, attacking workplace targets that had previously gone more-or-less unassailed. Those targets having been shredded regularly by the strip itself and a host of imitators, it’s become tougher for Scott Adams to come up with fresh work. […]

This year’s president of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Rex Babin, has posted a letter to AAEC member about the upcoming convention in Portland, OR this June. This year’s convention will be held in conjunction with Portland State University. Born out of necessity in this day of disappearing newspapers, vanishing sponsorships and eliminated travel […]

Chris Sharron was selected this as this year’s winner of the John Locher Award. The award honors the best student editorial cartoonist in North America. Chris took second place in 2008 and 2009 and won this year’s Charles M. Schulz Award. As the Locher recipient, he receives an all-expense paid trip to the AAEC convention […]

I’m sure the RingTales people are kicking these out faster than I can report on them. Best to bookmark Babelgum website and check often. Here’s a few more from Mark Tatulli’s Lio and Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac.

I don’t often agree with Ted Rall, and it’s certainly worth noting on the occasions I do. I’m all in favor of a vigorous debate over what the facts mean, but I don’t know how you can run a democracy when it becomes impossible to draw a line between obvious facts and obvious nonsense and […]

It took a nudge from CEO Steve Jobs himself, but today Apple approved Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore’s NewsToon app for the App store. The app was earlier rejected back in December citing that it ridiculed public figures. It is described as: From Pulitzer Prize-winning political animator, Mark Fiore, comes NewsToons, an automatically-updating collection of […]

Here’s a local story here in Utah. A mom bought a package of comic books for Easter at a local dollar store. The recipient was her 10-year-old son who got an eye full when the first two pages contained “naked ladies” in The Spectre. Linda Hurst bought the comics to put in an Easter basket. […]

Michael Fry found these gems from Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith. Bill pens the “Top 40 List on Comics and their Creators.”1-14 (seen above), 15-24, 25-35, 36-40