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Victor Vazquez of rap duo Das Racist challenged the New Yorker’s Farley Katz to a cartoon-off. Vazquez wasn’t too pleased with Katz’s “lazy journalism.”

A look back one year later at Lynn Johnstonâ??s decision to change the format of â??For Better or For Worseâ? from current story-lines to â??new-runs.â?

Aaron Hill — “Luann” character or Toronto Blue Jay’s second baseman?Ohio town mentioned in “Zits” comic strip.

Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Ted Rall will be a speaker at the Wright State Universityâ??s 2009-10 Presidential Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 4. Other speakers include Chris Sacca, the former head of Google Inc.â??s special initiatives, and Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France.

In an effort to revitalize China’s animation industry, a cartoon-themed shopping mall, entertainment and creative center will open in Shanghai.The aim is to employ savvy merchandising to create a craving for Chinese cartoons – old standards like the Monkey King and new ones like the “The Magic Aster,” “McDull Kung Fu” (about a kung fu […]

In an issue that just hit the stands, Archie Andrews apparently is taking the plunge, asking Veronica’s hand in marriage. This new storyline is not sitting well with the daughters of the creator of Archie Comics, the late Bob Montana.

Syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin (“Rubes”) will be at the Authors Booth at the California State Fair and does a Q & A.

After just over three years of daily syndication with United Features, “Secret Asian Man” will shift gears and return to a weekly format. On Saturday September 19, 2009 papers will run the very last daily strip. Tak Toyoshima writes:The characters and continuity will remain but I will produce one larger strip a week (like a […]

Former sports cartoonist Phil Bissell, who created the original New England Patriots logo “Pat Patriot” in 1960, is featured and recounts the history behind the creation of the football team mascot.

At the annual Burning Man communal gathering and arts festival this weekend, you will find a boat-shaped car with a cutout of Snoopy on the bow driven by Jeannie Schulz, widow of â??Peanutsâ? cartoonist Charles Schulz.â??I loved Burning Man last year. I took up â??Peanutsâ?? books to share, and volunteered in the coffee shop,â? Jeannie […]

Publishers Weekly looks at how print collections fit in with web comics.Web comics are counterintuitive: they’re online for free at the same time the creator or publisher is offering the same stories for sale. â??You would assume that people wouldn’t want to buy something if they’ve read it already,â? says David Land, an editor at […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer has illustrated a children’s book written by his daughter, Kate, about the struggle to choose the new puppy President Obama had promised his daughters, Sasha and Malia.â??It was as much as, if not more fun than any other illustration job Iâ??ve ever had,â? he said.

At a hearing in California on Monday, three judges at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave Paris Hilton the OK to pursue her case against Hallmark, rejecting the company’s claims the cartoon on a greeting card was of a generic woman and not Hilton. The card showed Hilton’s face superimposed on a cartoon of […]

The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters.

ToonSeum, a Pittsburgh museum devoted exclusively to the cartoon arts, is moving to a new location.One reason for the move is space. At 1,000 square feet, the new location will be five times the size of the current one. The other reason is to broaden the kind of artwork the ToonSeum displays. “Our own space […]