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Comedy Central has announced that Matt Groening’s Futurama will be returning to air on June 24th of this year.Here’s the released teaser: Futurama Weeknights, 9p/8c New Episodes on Comedy Central www.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Futurama New Episodes Funny Demon Zombie TV Show

There’s a bit of buzz floating around about a rumor that AT&T made a deal with Apple to keep the iPhone exclusive with them until early 2011.In any event, during the course of negotiations, AT&T agreed to offer Apple a deal on bandwidth rates for the iPad 3G in exchange for a 6 month extension […]

I finished the John and Anne Hambrock interview yesterday. As always a great podcast in the can for Tom Racine. The trio discussed John’s nomination as Best Newspaper Comic strip and a detour discussion on recent movies.

The momentum toward digital publishing continues with Google entering in the eBook market. Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing about its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish Google Editions in the marketplace by allowing users to access […]

A couple of book announcements that have caught my eye:Darby Conley’s is coming out with a Get Fuzzy new collection called “Treasury of the Lost Litter Box: A Get Fuzzy Treasury”Kieth Knight will release his first collection of The Knight Life. The book is entitled, “The Knight Life: “Chivalry Ain’t Dead””And lastly, Mark Tatulli has […]

The Born Loser will turn 45 next Saturday. The strip was first created by Art Sansom and has continued with his son, Chip. Here’s the full press release: On May 15, the most lovable loser in the comics is celebrating 45 years of being ridiculed, scorned, and mocked … which has provided endless amusement for […]

Jon Rosenberg, considered one of the more successful webcomics, appears to be creatively frustrated with the webcomic model for his Goats feature. His original plan was to end the feature in 2012, but the economy has made him think about wrapping the feature up earlier and moving on to a new comic with “more economic […]

Anyone doing anything related the unofficial day to celebrate cartooning?

Brian Bassett’s Red and Rover has switched syndicates. The strip that was launched by the Washington Post Writers Group in 2000 is now a Universal Uclick feature. The announcement was made on GoComics.com. I noted that the legal fine print one each strip still states it’s distributed through Washington Post Writers Group. I’m told that […]

Nine more NCS members have returned from a tour through Germany and Washington D.C. with the USO. This tour sent out Ray Alma (Mad magazine, caricaturist), Chad Carpenter (Tundra), Rob Harrell (Big Top and Adam@Home), Bruce Higdon (Army cartoonists and caricaturists), Mason Mastoianni (B.C.), Dave Mowder (licensing artist for Warner Bros, Disney and Peanuts), Stephen […]

Comingsoon.net has three photos of Hank Azaria in character as Gargamel. Apparently they’re shooting part of The Smurfs movie in New York City.

On 04/19/10 Tim Lachowski?s panel GET A LIFE! moved from Sherpa to online syndication with GoComics. Tim is a Detroit-based advertising director and writer specializing in humor. His work has appeared nationally and internationally in numerous venues, including Reader?s Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Funny Times, The Harvard Business Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cat […]

From NYPost: According to a person familiar with the matter, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple’s […]

Rina Piccolo, creator of Tina’s Groove and one of the Six Chix, has launched a tri-weekly webcomic entitled, “Velia, Dear.” The comic launched today and is about a young woman named Velia who leaves the inner city to take care of her aging Italian mother.Regarding the new strip (and why she’s launching a web comic) […]