E&P reports that Sunday’s Prince Valiant was the 3,700th installment. The feature is currently being created by Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz. Prince Valiant debuted in 1937 by Hal Foster and then was taken over by John Cullen Murphy.
Lalo Alcaraz’s Cucaracha hit the 5 year mark last month and appears in 60 newspapers nationwide. Lalo has drawn editorial cartoons for the LA Weekly since 1992 and also draws English and Spish editorial cartoons for Universal Press. If that didn’t keep him busy, he’s also co-editor of the satirical magazine Pocho, a co-founder to […]
E&P reports that Mark Parisi’s Off the Mark has turned 20 years old. Congratulations, Mark.
On Friday, Mike Baldwin’s comic feature Cornered will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press. Mike was one of the first cartoonists to color his daily cartoons by himself.
Universal Press has announced that Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles will celebrate 25 years of syndication at the end of this month. He started his career at the Buffalo Courier-Express in 1973, then moved to the Buffalo News in 1982 when the Courier-Express closed. He’s been at the Washington Post since 2002.
Richard Tennant, creator of The 5Th Wave, will celebrate 10 years in syndication this Friday.
This Thursday will mark Stuart Carlson’s 15th year as a syndicated editorial cartoonist. He’s been with the Milwaukee Sentinel since 1983.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams turns 50 today. A somewhat retrospective post on his blog to commemorate the passing: When I was 20, I wondered what it would be like to be 50. None of my guesses were close. I assumed that “aging” was automatically bad, so I didn’t look forward to it. No one told […]
Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug will celebrate 10 years of syndication with Universal Press this month. In the last 10 years, the feature has won many awards including: “Hot Comic Strip of the Year,” as named by Rolling Stone magazine; and, second place two years in a row for Best Cartoon in […]
Jeff Kilpatrick writes in to announce that the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, which he co-founded, will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary on May 4th with a large art show that will include the artwork for over 20 of their members. The organization has over 80 members with 30 who are active participants including Andrew Hart […]
To mark the 15th anniversary of Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur, Universal Press will be re-releasing the first Non Sequitur strip in February 16th. It was originally a Sunday feature, but Wiley has prepared it as a daily.
Universal Press has posted an interview with Wiley Miller who will be Non Sequitur’s 15th anniversary. Non Sequitur is now in 700+ papers.Here is the Q&A from Universal’s site: Q: What was your first cartoon, Fenton, like? How was it different from Non Sequitur? “Fenton was pretty much a traditional, family comic strip. It had […]
Rob Rogers, the new AAEC president has announced on the associations web site that this year’s AAEC convention will be in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the organization’s existence. Says Rob: We chose D.C. because that’s where the AAEC’s first convention was held and it seemed like a great bookend for […]
Fantagraphic Books has an exhibit in New York City featuring 30 years of cartoons by Fantagraphic cartoonists such as Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead.
Today the Daily Cartoonist turns 1 years old. Cake and ice cream over at my house tonight!