Alan Gardner

Andy Marlette, Doug Marlette’s nephew has a write up in the Pensacola News Journal that reviews his controversies that he’s stirred in his young college career.

With Triple Take coming to an end, Scott Nickel has many more comics up his sleeve. His and Hers runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s on GoComics.com and he’s got another one that will launch on GoComics on Monday called Go Team Bob.

More editorial cartoonist are joining the blogosphere. J.D. Crowe of The Mobile Register launched his blog recently as did Drew Sheneman of the Newark Star-Ledger.I’ve updated the list on the right side of this page. If you’re an editorial cartoonist with a blog and you’re not listed, please email me and I’ll get you linked!

Scott Nickel, the artist behind Triple Take announced on his blog that the feature he shares with Todd Clark will end on August 26tH. According to Scott, King Features pulled the plug. The strip was probably doomed from the start. It was too gimmicky and Iâ??m sure the multiple punch lines from a single character […]

This year’s Golden Spike Award went to Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Examiner. The Golden Spike is an award given out during the annual AAEC convention to recognize a worthy cartoon that was rejected by an otherwise timid editor. Over on Daryl Cagle’s blog, he’s posted a copy of the toon – which […]

Norm Feuti, the creator of Retail, has launched a web site and blog of his own. A while back he launched a blog called Cooper’s Retail Blog which is written in the voice of his character, Cooper. With his own blog, Norm is free to blog in his own voice. Looks like he started it […]

uClick has announced that Jeff Smith’s Bone character is going to be available on mobile phones. Launched on July 26th, new chapters are added weekly.

In a confusing story on that does little to explain who’s who, the Times-Republican has written about a cartoon that was published in an in-house paper at the Iowa Veterans Home that has caused one staffer to be fired and the entire paper’s content to be reviewed by an editorial board for approval. No mention […]

Received an email from Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist Marshall Ramsey who reported in on his live blogging experiment of last nights election results there in Mississippi. He published 32 posts and 12 cartoons in that one night. From his email: I was exhausted when I got home at 1 a.m., but was very energized this morning […]

Back in June, I wrote about Randall Vanfossen’s efforts to establish a monthly mailing of comics strips through a subscription model. He has announced that he was not able to garner enough subscriptions to make the publication happen. I knew a subscription drive was a long shot, but when I made the decision to go […]

Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. writes in to tell us that his feature is turning 20 years old this year and can now be seen in the Sunday L.A. Times. Congratulations Bob.

Over on Dilbert creator Scott Adam’s blog, he’s revealed that he’s helping an unknown cartoonist, Scott Meyer, take his creation Basic Instructions and turn it into syndication material.From his blog: Over the course of the next few months I offered him some tips for getting syndicated in newspapers. It dawned on me that my blog […]

With all the attention now on Funky Winkerbean’s Lisa Moore’s impending death, the A.V. Club looks back at the 12 most memorable comic strip deaths which include: Farley (For Better Or For Worse), Dick Davenport (Doonesbury), Dead bird (Calvin & Hobbes), Grandpa (The Family Circus), Anonymous corpse (Kudzu), Daddy Warbucks (Little Orphan Annie), John Darling […]

With Kudzu ending at the end of this month, papers are focusing on the funnies. Here’s a round up of who’s in and out this week.The Daily Herald (Everett WA) has replaced One Big Happy with Secret Asian Man and despite protests will stick with Tak Toyoshima’s feature because: A new comic needs time to […]

E&P is reporting two new book collections to hit the book stores next month. Alternative Zits is the latest Zits collection by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott. Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer is the latest Close to Home collection by John McPherson.