Mike Rhode has blogged out todays announcement from the Washington Post that they are dropping a full comic section from their Sunday comics. The Post states that they will only be dropping two features (Wizard of Id and Hints from Heloise) and that all other comics will be squeezed into one section. Here’s their announcement: […]
The Salt Lake Tribune has announced that it will begin to run five new strips on a trial basis for the next two weeks after which they will evaluate which ones should be made permanent. The five trial features include: The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, The Pajama Diaries, Rhymes With Orange, Flo & Friends, […]
Those in the North Attleboro Massachusetts area, plan on heading over to Borders Express in the Emerald Square Mall this next Sunday to visit with Retail creator Norm Feuti. Norm will be there to sign copies of his book, “Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook.” Norm was kind enough to send me a copy […]
From RACs comes a report that last Saturday’s Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley was replaced in the Chicago Tribune over concern regarding “standards of taste.” The comic (see here) depicts a sickly Satchel with Bucky Katt using word combinations to demean his fellow pet, such as ‘dog’ and ‘numb’ makes ‘dumb.’ The questionable part comes […]
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With the latest discussion of the News and Observer comic poll and the features editor jumping into our discussion, I found this column by the Cincinnati Post editor Keith Herrell interesting. Herrell was the Living editor at the Post back in the day when the comics were delivered by mail. I was The Post’s Living […]
Brian Crane, creator of Pickles, has created this year’s annual Christmas card for the Ronald McDonald House Charities that operates in the Northern Nevada area. The Ronald McDonald House offers housing and other amenities to parents of sick children who live far from their children’s hospital. Brian is a resident of the Reno Nevada area.
Susie MacNelly, the widow of Shoe creator and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly has sued Tribune Media Services charging that TMS is obstructing a possible move to King Features Syndicate. Susie’s Blue Salvage Company, the company she and Jeff created in 1995, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern […]
The News and Observer has begun it’s final polling after running seven guest features this last year. Also up for reader feedback are 10 regularly featured comic strips. The results will be published in January and they mention that they’ll keep an open spot for more trial features that they’ve wanted to get arond to […]
Park Record editorial cartoonist John Kilbourn was asked to resign after a Mad Magazine collector faxed a Mort Druker cartoon to a local NPR station reporter and the Park Record publishers pointing out similarities between it and a recent Kilbourn cartoon. Kilbourn admits to basing his cartoon off of the Druker cartoon, but claims he […]
Gelf magazine is wondering if a New Yorker cartoonist is plagiarizing a Gary Larson cartoon. In this week’s latest New Yorker is a cartoon by Lee Lorenz, a former art director at the magazine, which depicts a man feeding birds in a park and appears to be attacked and eaten by the birds. A very […]
Yesterday I mentioned that Houston Chronicle editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson had submitted three of his animations the GOP CNN/YouTube debate. One of the videos containing an animated Dick Chenney asking if the candidates would grant as much power to their vice president as President Bush has to his was used during the broadcast. Presidential candidates […]
Over on Nick Anderson’s blog, comes word that he has submitted three video animations for the CNN/YouTube GOP debate that will be held tonight. There we over 4,000 video questions submitted, so the chance of one of his being used is pretty small. Computerworld has reviewed the videos and have compiled their top 10 best […]
Tom Richmond has been running Apple’s new OS X 10.5 AKA Leopard for a while now. He’s posted an artist-centric review of the OS on his blog.He writes: A week or so ago Apple released the first update to Leopard in version 10.5.1. I had already installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro to get the […]
Bob Andelman’s Mr. Media blog will feature Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker next month. Right now, the featured guest is David Michaelis, biographer of the controvercial “Schulz and Peanuts” book. Mort was one my recent Cartoonist’s Cartoonists. Check out the cartoonists he admires or had an influence on him.