Filed under: Comic Strips

Two outstanding Sherpa strips, Steve Skelton’s 2 Cows and a Chicken and Jonathan Lemon’s “Rabbits Against Magic“, will be appearing on Gocomics.com. You can also follow them on their own web sites here and here.

» The National Cartoonist Society rolled out a redesigned web site. » Illustrator Barry Blitt will be speaking at the The Ontario College of Art and Design this Wednesday. Admission is free.» Six Chix Stephanie Piro found a fan had taken images from her strip and set them to the music of Meatloaf and posted […]

» Boom Studios is bringing back The Muppets in comic form. Roger Langridge is the artist. Look for its debut in March.» Back in August I wrote about French cartoonist Maurice Sinet who wrote a column that ignited an uproar calling the column anti-Semitic. He’s now on trial.» Jeff Smith’s Bone will come to an […]

I’ve been re-missed in keeping track of who was featured on which podcast. Here are a few that I missed: Tall Tale Radio interviews TDC regular John Read, of Stay Tooned fame. Tall Tale Radio also interviewed Agnes creator Tony Cochran. Topics discussed: the genesis of Agnes, the state of newspapers today, and the worlds […]

» E&P is reporting that the Village Voice Media is “suspending all of its syndicated cartoons” across its alt-weekly chain. The decision hits Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow)’s This Modern World who loses 12 or so clients in one fell swoop» I received word after posting yesterday’s comic page changes that Darrin Bell’s Candorville has been […]

» Politico has an article about the difficulty cartoonist will have skewering President Obama. Let’s see… no, this isn’t a re-print of an earlier article that we’ve talked about before (see here and here). Can we be officially done on this topic yet? Or better still, can editorial cartoonists, when asked this question, say emphatically, […]

The Florida Times-Union has posted the results of their comic survey. They had previously announced that they were going to drop up to eight comics, but have now said that they will not be making any cuts in their daily selections. The Sunday comic page will lose four: Prince Valiant, Watch Your Head, Cathy and […]

I’ve been quietly adding print cartoonists to my list of cartoonist/bloggers on the homepage. Here are the new ones: Editorial Cartoonist Brian Fairrington Editorial Cartoonist Paul Szep Editorial Cartoonist Steve Greenberg Pearls Before Swine’s Stephan Pastis

» Charles Brubaker has found a video of an old Hank Ketcham animation before Hank created Dennis the Menace. » Former Springfield News-Sun cartoonist David Catrow will drawing caricatures of pets and their owners for a fund-raiser for his local Humane Society this Saturday.» Speaking of dogs, Vincent Frank, a retired engineer, was profiled in […]

Dilbert creator Scott Adams continues to push the Dilbert brand into new markets. Scott’s latest business is a file transfer service called “Dilbertfile.com” which allows users to upload large files (that can’t be sent through email) that then can be downloaded later by another user. Scott wrote on his blog back in November that he […]

Tom Gammill does a comic called The Doozies that runs on GoComics.com. Over the last couple of months, he’s created several self-deprecating videos to help promote the strip. In his latest video, he features Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott, co-creators of Zits.

Via ¡Journalista! comes a news report of a speech given by Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder to Earlham College to mark Martin Luther King day. The topic invariably turned to Barack Obama’s new administration. Here’s what Aaron had to say. “I don’t think you’re going to see any dramatic change from Barack Obama,” said McGruder, who […]

Boris Drucker was a popular cartoonist in The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Punch, Playboy and Family Circle. He passed away last Thursday of a stroke. From the Philadelphia Inquirer:During World War II, he served in the Army in the China-Burma-India Theater. While completing meteorological reports for U.S. pilots flying over the Himalayas, he sketched […]

After 18,000 votes, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has brought back two comics that were dropped last week. The two features returning are Kevin & Kell and Judge Parker. The exact votes were not reported for any of the poll results, but is the list of the features in descending order from high to low votes: Hagar […]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Dave Horsey is in D.C. for the Barack Obama Inauguration as is Rob Tornoe, a freelancer for Editor and Publisher.Already in the area, look for cartoons by Matt Wuerker of Politico, Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner, Bill Garner of The Washington Times and Tom Toles of the Washington Post.Cul de Sac creator […]