King Features hires former AMU exec John Glynn
Sources tell TDC that former Andrews McMeel Universal President John Glynn has been hired by King Features Syndicate. John will help with…
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New Daily Cartoonist Feature: The Daily Digest
We have exciting news! We have a new newsletter service to replace the Google FeedBurner service that shuttered in 2021….
The Daily Cartoonist is on hiatus
Perhaps you’ve noticed the site has not been updated for awhile now. I certainly didn’t intend to go this long…
John Locher Award expanded to graphic journalists, web cartoonists
The John Locher Award has a new website and an expanded criteria for eligibility that includes graphic journalists and web…
Matt Bors’ The Nib lands at First Look Media
A nice development for Matt Bors’ The Nib. First Look Media today announced that they have partnered with award winning…
Production error places Off the Mark into Pearls Before Swine Sunday comic
A “production error” in yesterday’s funny pages placed Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark inside Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine in…
Mell Lazarus honored with NCS Medal Of Honor
From the National Cartoonist Society website: On January 23, the National Cartoonists Society awarded Mell Lazarus, cartoonist of the long-running…
Cartoonist Linus Maurer, namesake of Peanuts Linus character, passes at age 90
From Economic Times: LOS ANGELES: Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed…
Peanuts Movie streaming available on 16th anniversary of Charles Schulz passing
I noticed The Peanuts Movie was listed as being available for streaming on February 12 on Apple iTunes. That date is significant…
Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod passes at age 91
Mark Trail cartoonist Jack Elrod has passed at the age of 91. You can read the full obituary in the…
Oregonian pulls Non Sequitur strips in wake of stand-off shooting
The Oregonian pulled three strips from a Non Sequitur week-long strip series that poked fun at the armed occupants of…
Angouleme Festival presents fake awards; upset everyone
Brigid Alverson writes at Robot6: The ceremony began with comedian Richard Gaitet, clad in a neon-blue suit and red bow…
Egyptian cartoonist arrested for running website without a license
From the New York Times: An Egyptian cartoonist, whose work is occasionally critical of government figures, was arrested in the…
Between Friends Cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy Starts Speakers Series
From Niagra This Week: Bell-Lundy has invited some of her comic friends to form a speaker series aimed at inspiring…