This year’s annual Border Book Festival (Border – as in US, Mexico; not the book store) will feature Lalo Alcaraz, the creator of “La Cucharacha” on this coming Saturday in El Paso Texas. Lalo will talk about his work and conduct a workshop with other area cartoonists.Border Book Festival is a free event to celebrate […]
The Winona Daily News has reported that after sifting through 500 survey responses that they will be making four changes on their comics page. Newly launched “Cow and Boy” will replace “Mary Worth” – who has run in that newspaper since 1947; “Brevity” takes over “Close To Home;” and “Get Fuzzy” takes the slot of […]
To what extent are newspapers supposed to edit or fact check the content of comic strips? That’s the topic a column by Manning Pynn, the Public Editor at the Orlando Sentinel, who recently had to deal with a reader who questioned the factuality of a Mallard Fillmore strip regarding taxes. The tax question involved was […]
Earlier this month, I posted a brief on how The Capital, Annapolis MD, was considering dropping Cathy to make room for Pearls Before Swine. Two weeks, and 305 emails later, the editor has decided to keep Cathy. BUT! the Pearl supporters were significant enough that the editor would like to cancel something else to make […]
Tony Carrillo received some positive press from the Arizona Republic who did a large feature on the launch of his feature “F Minus.” The story talks about how F Minus grew from a college strip to a big time syndicated feature.The comic got its start with a student audience. It was printed inside ASU’s student-run […]
The Kansas City star is adding three new features to their line-up. Starting today, readers are getting their first look at Darrin Bell’s “Candorville,” John Kovaleski’s “Bo Nanas,” and Scott Stantis’ “Prickly City.” No mention was made if other features were being dropped to make room for these three.
“Doonesbury” character Alex has been deciding on which college to attend and has been accepted at Rochester Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – fictionally of course. The attention that RIT is getting has made RIT officials giddy.R-I-T officials have been getting a kick out of the comic strip recognition. They say R-I-T would […]
I promise I don’t have an agenda or am getting paid to promote Dan Piraro, but he has certainly received quite a bit of digital ink here on the Daily Cartoonist recently. I’m not entirely sure how I came across this, but Dan has started a blog over at MySpace.com. So far the postings are […]
I’m highly suspicious of this little tidbit out of story in the Providence Journal (RI). In a story about how fifth grade students researched professions based on what they enjoy doing as a hobby, one such student claims to have interviewed Bill Watterson. So let’s get this straight. A fifth grader in Rhode Island, several […]
The Orange County Register recently took a poll with nearly 3,000 respondents to come up with the best and worst comics on the funny pages (of the OCR). The top honors go to “For Better or for Worse” by Lynn Johnston “Luann” by Greg Evans, “Foxtrot” by Bill Amend “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz and […]
Doonesbury character “Rev. Sloan” was modeled after William Sloane Coffin – a former Yale University chaplain. William Sloan Coffin passed away yesterday. The relevant text from the AP story from the NY Times is below.William Sloane Coffin was immortalized in the ”Doonesbury” comic strip when its creator, fellow Yale graduate Garry Trudeau, blended his character […]
I’ve posted news about Dan Piraro’s live comedy act here before (listen to interview, here are tour dates and more tour dates). The L.A. Times wrote up a good review for the show which begins tonight in LA. In a bit of turnabout, Piraro reads and comments on the best of his hate mail as […]
Universal Press has issued a press release to announce that Bill Amend has put out a new FoxTrot collection. This collection is available at Amazon.The Fox family’s zany antics keep us entertained as they encounter pop culture in their everyday lives. Mom Andy tries unsuccessfully to push her youngest son, Jason, away from his video […]
Universal Press Syndicate has issued a press release to commenmorate the 5th anniversary of Lalo Alcaraz’s debut as a syndicated editorial cartoonist with UPS. Lalo also created “La Cucaracha” in 2002 which is also distributed by UPS.“Lalo brings a young, fearless Latino sensibility to political and cultural critiques, and that’s saying something when you consider […]
The Detroit Free Press announced over the weekend that they were launching a new and improved features section called “Life.” In passing they mention…You’ll find some other changes in Monday’s paper, including a new comics lineup, a new page with more puzzles and a fresh new focus for The List! — metro Detroit’s best local […]