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The Irish Times reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an honorary doctorate for his cartooning career by the University College Dublin.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams must be bored again. His latest blog post is causing a stir after he lists “tweeting, raping, cheating, and being offensive to just about everyone in the entire world” as being part of the male nature. If you have a round peg that doesn’t fit in a square hole, do you […]

Jeff Keane wrapped up 2 terms as President of the National Cartoonists Society. Only three other individuals in the history of the society have served more than one term. Jeff was gracious enough to submit to a few questions reviewing his tenure.Alan: Of the 34 presidents so far, only four have served more than one […]

Anton Emdin, the winner of this year’s NCS Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration category, has created a new feature called Shrinks Comics which is described as, “The concept is simple. Send in a question that you would like answered. A celebrity will answer you, and I will illustrate the whole thing. If you send in a photo […]

Tom Racine interviews Rex Morgan, M.D. and Sunshine State cartoonist Graham Nolan on Tall Tale Radio. Topics include his work in comic strips, comic books, and everything his webcomic Sunshine State.

The Ledger, (Lakeland, FL) has added four comics to their comic line-up. They conducted a reader survey that yielded more than 1,200 responses. The new comics include Between Friends , Dustin , Pearls Before Swine and Sherman’s Lagoon. The article didn’t mention which strips were dropped, but mentioned the low vote getters were Sally Forth […]

Actor and director Warren Beatty has announced he’s working on a sequel for the Dick Tracy movie as well as a remastered Blu-Ray of the original Dick Tracy movie he directed and starred in back in the 1980’s.Recently, Beatty won a legal battle with Tribune Media over the movie rights for the Dick Tracy character.Regarding […]

Looks like a new site is up that takes peoples Tweets and tries to match them with random Peanut strip.As far as a parody/mashup experiment – I think it works. Here’s some examples.Follow PeanutTwitter

I came across this letter to the editor and had a “Oh crap! Did Jim forgot to check his calendar again?” The date referenced below is the day before D-Day.The comic strip “Garfield” has long impressed me with its consistent message of aggrandizing anti-social behavior. The strip is a detriment to young readers and an […]

NPR picked up on a webcomic, Pants are overrated, that did a two-part-series called Bacon and Hobbes wherein the artists depict Calvin aged 26 years, married to Susie with a daughter of their own named Bacon. Parody attempts on Watterson’s classic strip isn’t new. I’m not sure what this adds to the Calvin and Hobbes […]

Atlanta Magazine delves into the rebirth of Dick Tracy under the new team Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis.For starters, the art is crisp and creative with a strong visual homage to “Tracy” creator Chester Gould’s heyday in the strip in the 1940s and 1950s while the writing is fast-paced and loaded with wit and […]

More attendees of the Reuben Award weekend have posted:Sunday’s Non Sequitur has Wiley Miller’s take on the Reubens.Anne Hambrock has posted cell phone video footage of one of Tom Gammill’s short videos presented to the attendees. Tom was the master of ceremonies. Can’t wait to see the final release from Tom.Stephan Pastis visited MIT while […]

Richard Thompson continues to get positive press after winning this year’s Rueben. He was down in Charlotte this weekend for the Heroes Con and the Charlotte Observer wrote up a profile.A lifelong suburbanite, he’s happy with the lifestyle. From soccer league ordeals to the rituals of school, his experiences provide storylines for the strips. “Petey […]

The Janesville Gazette has an interesting profile on Mr. Bofo creator Joe Martin. Included is info on his three comics, “Mr. Bofo,” “Willy n? Ethel,” and ?Cats with Hands? and his pioneering efforts to embed QR codes (quick response) into his feature. But in the last three decades, Martin has built one of the industry?s […]

John Read’s One Fine Sunday in the Funny Pages exhibit continues across the US and he was able to land it in Boston in time for the NCS Reuben Awards last weekend. BackBay Patch has a great write-up of the exhibit and the attendees.There was no shortage of cartoon royalty on hand, from Bill Keane […]