Alan Gardner

E&P: United Media gets a new editorThe former King Features Syndicate executive succeeds Neil Gladstone, who went to AOL after more than five years with United.

I always wondered what cartooning would be like in a nation where your family or yourself could found dead because of a cartoon. According to this article, Iranian cartoonist Majid Amini is doing well (though he says it could be better).TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) — Iranian cartoonist Majid Amini won third prize at the 22nd […]

For those who care, yesterday markes the 20th anniversary of the launch of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.

Ouch. According to an informal survey at E&P, 1,900 jobs were cut in 2005 alone. The article also lists the newspapers and the number. With costs rising and circulation on the decline, newspaper companies have responded by trimming a considerable portion of their staffs this year. A review of past news reports offers up a […]

Congrats to Jimmy Margulies. NEW YORK Jimmy Margulies has won the Berryman Award for editorial cartooning from the National Press Foundation. The award, which comes with a $2,500 cash prize, will be presented to Margulies Feb. 23 in Washington, D.C.

Can’t get your daily Dilbert fix? You can now get Scott Adam’s comic strip on your mobile phone.“Dilbert is a pop culture icon, and we are excited to offer this great new service to Verizon Wireless’ Mobile Web 2.0 customers,” said Adam Lavine, Chief Executive Officer of FunMail, Inc. “We are very pleased to further […]

The Daily Cartoonist has been live for about a month now and I wanted to outline the next steps for this blog for the few visitors/subscribers. I haven’t advertised or marketed the blog as it is still the development phase, but I am seeing some traffic trickling in.Right now, this blog is in what I […]

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The seemingly unrelated stories of Michael Ramirez being let go from the LA Times and KAL taking a buyout at the Sun are connected. According to Yahoo News and The Chicago Tribune, Tribune Co is slashing jobs across most of its papers. This is probably even connected to why Jeff MacNelly’s position at the Chicago […]

From E&P:While the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ latest FAS-FAX numbers showed a 2.6% decline in daily paid circulation for U.S. newspapers, Nielsen//NetRatings reports that newspaper Web sites grew 11% year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, comprising 26% of the active U.S. Internet population.Not good. Unless your name is Mike Fiore.

State News editorial cartoonist Mike Ramsey had citizens protesting outside the newspaper offices over a cartoon about U.S. torture camps.The cartoon, by State News cartoonist Mike Ramsey, featured a World War II veteran saying “I liberated a torture camp back in ’45” to a current soldier. The soldier, shown holding a bloody baseball bat with […]

I posted earlier regarding the Sun’s buyout offer, but was unable to find any reports whether KAL’s position was in jeapardy. E&P reports that KAL is considering taking the buyout.The Tribune Co. has asked The Sun to once again seek staff buyouts in various departments. “I have been offered a buyout like everyone else on […]

A story in E&P is reporting that a libel suit against “Get Fuzzy” cartoonist Darby Conley has reached settlement.From E&P: Bob Lobel filed the libel suit this spring after the May 13 “Get Fuzzy” strip — by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Darby Conley — showed Satchel the dog watching Lobel on TV and asking: “Is this sportcaster […]

While this blog’s focus is on professional cartoonists, I ran across a posting on the toontalk bulletin board. Lee Nordling, author of Your Career in the Comics will be directing a four day seminar for unsyndicated cartoonists to help them take their creation to a syndicated level.My goal with this seminar is to work with […]

A day long cartooning class will be offered in Hingham Massachusetts by John Zaccone.Zaccone will touch upon the three major cartoon formats ? the political cartoon, the single panel cartoon, and the comic strip. But in a certain significant sense, he won?t do it alone. As students explore the process of creating a professional cartoon […]