Alan Gardner

Fox28 visits The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and talks to Caitlin McGurk about the amazing library/museum.

This is a great video with concepts not just for animation, but still drawings too. The illusion of life from cento lodigiani on Vimeo.

David Reddick, creator of Legend of Bill and The Trek Life will be launch a new comic strip this summer with King Features Syndicate. The feature is called Intelligent Life. From the strip’s Facebook page:INTELLIGENT LIFE is a comic strip that revolves around a set of characters who very much exist in this world of […]

Watch XKCD creator Randall Munroe’s TED Talk. The talk is less about comics than his adventures using Mathematics.

Walt Handelsman took the challenge to draw a finished editorial cartoon live during a recent 30 minute Eyewitness News newscast.

Jake Tapper of CNN talks to Matt Bors about editorial cartooning in general and Matt’s work specifically. Also includes a Toon-off between the two. Jake holds his own.

Charles Schulz owned a home Minneapolis for three years (1955 to 1958). For the first time in 50 years, that home is up for sale. The St. Paul Business Journal reports that aside from two wall murals painted by Sparky (which will be removed), there’s very little evidence that the 4,500 square foot home was […]

The blog sponsor this week is Bearman Cartoons. Bearman has been a frequent commentator on this blog. He’s better known for his editorial cartoons, pop culture cartoons, social media cartoons and caricatures.This month, Bearman is running his annual charity challenge. For everyone who uses his name “Bearman” in a cartoon he will donate $10 to […]

A big thanks goes out to Greg Kogan of GagCartoons.com for sponsoring The Daily Cartoonist last week. GagCartoons.com is an online platform that allows cartoonist to upload their backlog of published and unpublished gag cartoons that Greg promotes, markets and licenses them for you. You focus on being a great cartoonist, he focuses on selling […]

Great news for Gil fans (at least those who read The Providence Sunday Journal). After Gil creator Norm Feuti retired the strip, the Journal received “outcries from hundreds of readers” and reached out to Norm to see if he’d continue to create the strip for them. The result is a weekly installment of Gil that […]

Tom Richmond, President of the National Cartoonists Society, has posted a letter to the New York Post regarding their decision to drop their comics page. Full letter below: Dear New York Post, It is with great disappointment, and no small amount of confusion, that I learned of the New York Post?s recent decision to entirely […]

I’ve had a couple of reports and seen some tweets saying that the New York Post has eliminated their comics page – their entire page that ran anywhere from 7-9 comics. I haven’t seen any official articles from the Post explaining their decision. If anyone knows what’s going on, please send me a link.Update: Jim […]

The Herblock Foundation has posted video of this year’s winner, Jen Sorenson, acceptance speech.

Jim Borgman has posted several early sketches and brainstorms of Zits that he co-created with Jerry Scott. Among the revelations – Zits was almost named:

KC Business magazine has named Andrews McMeel (parent company of Universal Uclick) the coolest office in Kansas City. They have a great write-up with lots of photos. Unfortunately, you have to read it through a magazine reader site. Here’s the link. Skip to page 18.