Rich Deisslin, a regular commentator here at The Daily Cartoonist, will be hosting and posting the 8th Annual The Cartoon Days of Christmas. Each cartoonist will have a page featuring cartoons on the theme of humor in the Christmas season. It will be G-rated fun for the whole family and help to keep the hustle […]
Larry Wright’s Carlyle celebrates 30 years in syndication on December 1st. The comic features Kit, a single working woman, and Carlyle, a spunky kitten who can turn from cuddly to cunning at the drop of a hat.“My family and I have owned lots of real cats over many past decades,” Wright said. “But having had […]
Universal Uclick editor John Glynn offers a serious but mostly not-so serious interview with Foxtrot creator Bill Amend regarding his newly released collection “The Best of FoxTrot” Did you ever consider letting newspapers run reruns of the dailies? Not really. I owed a lot of FoxTrot’s newspaper success to the retirements over the years of […]
Last week I reported that Rupert Murdoch was working with Apple to create a new iPad newspaper called The Daily. A few more details have been reported about the venture – less about the app itself – but more about who’s involved. The New Yorker is reporting that Murdoch’s News Corp is investing $30 million […]
The Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Drew Sheneman has opted to take out a buyout and leave his staff position behind. In an interview with Rob Tornoe, Drew says that leaving now, in his mid-30s, made more sense.So you decided to take a buyout from the Star-Ledger. You survived one round of cuts. Why leave now? It […]
See you all back here on Nov 29th.Happy Thanksgiving!
Every once in a while, a cartoonist throws in a celebrity into their comic strip. The latest that I know of is yesterday’s Speedbump which featured Detroit Lions’ Jeff Backus. The Detroit Free Press asked Speedbump creator Dave Coverly why Backus??I?m a huge Lions fan, and I live in Ann Arbor,? said Coverly, a Plainwell […]
Politico’s Matt Wuerker has won the 2010 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for editorial cartooning. Earlier this year, Matt was the recipient of the Herblock Prize. Regarding Matt’s work, judges noted that, ?Matt?s drawings blend satire, irony and the right amount of anger to skewer the politically powerful of all persuasions.” Matt wins […]
The folks at Paws, Inc and PixFusion.com are launching a new service that allows individuals to insert their face into an animated Garfield comic strip – much like JibJab animations. Jim Davis, who created the cat decades ago, said he embraced the opportunity to put readers in his strips, noting that his cat has long […]
The Guardian reports that Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs have been working together to create a new digital “newspaper” for tablet devices such as the iPad. The publication, which will be entitled the Daily, is supposed to be announced later this month. The 79-year-old Murdoch is said to have had the idea for the project […]
A bit late on this one, but a heartfelt congratulations to Guy Endore-Kaiser who popped the question to his girlfriend Renee Robichaux in the November 13th Brevity. From a News-Press article: “We’ve been together almost five years and I’ve been doing the strip for about five years. I didn’t know the particulars of where to […]
Not only is Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup the top selling Cathy replacement – it’s also hitting a major milestone: 15 years in syndication.Stone Soup debuted on November 20, 1995. Congrats, Jan!
Washington Post Writers Group is launching Donna A. Lewis’ Reply All on February 28. Donna’s strip is described as an exploration of the “value of honesty, the power of knowledge and the impact of a bad-hair day on one’s self-perception.”Donna is a D.C. attorney by profession. Her first foray into cartooning was a web comic […]
Bluewater Productions is releasing a second Sarah Palin comic book in December. Female Force: Sarah Palin, Act 2 focuses on Palin’s life after the 2008 presidential elections. The book examines the reasons behind Palin’s increasing celebrity, and the threat that she might pose to both Democrats and mainstream Republicans should she decide to run in […]
Gotta admit the Green Lantern wasn’t the super-hero I identified with. I wasn’t even aware there was an alien component in the story’s history. Movie due out June of next year.