TDC Archive

Stephan Pastis gave a memorable acceptance speech after he won the Reuben Award for “Cartoonist of the Year” last weekend in Huntington Beach, Calif. 

GoComics has announced the launch of Matt Tarpley’s “Cat’s Cafe.”About the comic: Everyone is welcome at Cat’s Café! There is always a seat and someone to talk to. Follow Cat, Penguin, and Rabbit along with a variety of other special animals, form a wonderful place where everyone can feel warm, fuzzy, and accepted.Matt’s bio: Matt […]

The Paris Review has an excerpt from the book Scrawl: an A to Z of Famous Doodles by Todd Strauss-Schulson, Caren Strauss-Schulson, and Claudia Strauss-Schulson which looks into the legendary “doodle” collection of their father.From the piece:Over the course of his career, he (David Schulson) amassed arguably the most impressive private collection of drawings, scribbles, […]

Going on in its own back yard, The Orange County Register has published a piece on this weekend’s NCS Fest.From the piece:Scattered through the panels and presentations of the weekend are stars such as Cathy Guisewhite of the comic strip “Cathy,” Stephan Pastis of “Pearls Before Swine,” and Jeff Keane who took over “The Family […]

The Los Angeles Times has a feature on the seven books that aren’t Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” to give to graduates.From the piece:Most college graduates weren’t even born when the last “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip was published in 1996, but it’s never too late to dive into Watterson’s magical world. 

Break of Day cartoonist Nate Fakes has done a two-part v-log on how to submit to syndicates. https://cartooningcourses.com/syndication-part-1-submitting/Disclosure: The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal. 

The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer editor George Rodrigue has penned a piece on Cleveland.com that reflects on the results of a survey they’d conducted to see whether their readers wanted to bring back Non Sequitur. Seventy-seven percent of the respondents voted to bring Non Sequitur back, while 14% voted to keep its replacement “Animal Crackers.” From the […]

From Ted: Against long odds, the California Supreme Court has granted my Petition for Review. We are asking the high court to vacate the LA Times’ abusive anti-SLAPP motion against me as granted by the two lower courts. The successful Petition was drafted by my attorneys Jeff Lewis and Roger Lowenstein.  From Ted’s blog:Breaking precedent where newspapers are […]

Keith Knight of “K Chronicles,” “(th)ink)” and “The Knight Life” has a show based on his life as a cartoonist in the pilot phase at Hulu. Today, The Hollywood Reporter revealed some casting news:Workaholics star Blake Anderson has signed on to the project, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He will play a longtime friend of Morris’ character in Woke, inspired […]

A February 4th letter into The Cleveland Plain Dealer lamented a recent comics change.From the letter:Just when I thought it was safe to read the comics after all the changes in the “Diversions” section, I opened the Sunday paper to discover that my favorite comic, “Pickles,” had been replaced (with no prior warning) by something […]

Bleeding Cool is reporting that Bill Morrison is no longer the editor at MAD Magazine.From the Story:Bleeding Cool has been informed that as of last week, Bill Morrison is no longer editor of MAD Magazine, as part of new layoffs at DC Comics. We have confirmed that he is no longer at DC.Bill Morrison did not respond […]

From the NCS Fest site:NCSFest’s marketplace will have it’s own unique twist – we’ll be taking our exhibitors and artists outdoors onto the main streets of Huntington Beach for the weekend. City streets around the iconic pier will be closed as the city celebrates all things comics for the first time. Cover and security will be provided and […]

Cincinnati’s Public Radio WXVU has a piece that features 25 reasons to watch “Bench” the MLB Network documentary on the Reds’ Hall-of-Fame catcher Johnny Bench. Number six in the list cites artwork from legendary Zits creator and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman. From the piece:6. To see Bench in his office reading scrapbooks sent to him by […]

A reader of The Bowling Green (Ohio) Daily News  found the January 25th installment of Wumo to be “disgusting, crude, vulgar and very offensive.” And Betty Reneau wrote into the editors to let them know.

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle has issued an apology for an Elizabeth Warren-related editorial cartoon by Rick McKee.From the column:The best and strongest opinions are expressed without retreating to the weak territory of racially charged expressions. This page will strive to avoid them.You can see the cartoon in question here.