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The National Cartoonist Society will be honoring Sandra Boynton with its Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandra is best known for her many children’s books with cuddly animals and sparse layout, but she began her career creating greeting cards and her 1975 “Hippo Birdie Two Ewes” card has sold over 200 millions copies. In addition […]

Retro Geek, the newly launched feature by Steve Dickenson and Todd Clark has ended as of yesterday’s strip. According to Jan Guszynski, Director of Marketing for Tribune Media Services, the two creators made a decision to pursue other joint and independent projects.

Comicmix.com has interviewed Rich Stevens regarding his long running webcomic Diesel Sweeties and its current foray into newspapers.Here’s an excerpt: Nearly 2000 strips and a newspaper syndication deal later, DS has evolved into an Internet phenomenon of sorts. The series is often held up as a prime example of the success an online-based comic can […]

Wiley Miller, creator of Non Sequitur, was interviewed by the Kennebunkport Post. Nothing too new from this interview, but does an excellent recap of the Wiley’s history before Non Sequitur and how his feature came about.Here’s a sample: “When my friends and I would hang out I would just do little doodles on napkins. They […]

Scott Lincoln has posted a website to showcase his comic feature Ralf the Destroyer, a comic that he says is now in development with United Media Syndicate. Scott has worked for several years with Guy Gilchrist and had an inspirational strip called Solomon Road that was syndicated through D.B.R. Media for a couple of years.You […]

Most of the NCS Division Awards candidates have been posted. Here is the run down so far. Animation Feature Brad Bird, “Ratatouille” Sylvain Deboissy, “Surf’s up” David Silverman, “The Simpsons Movie” Television Animation Sandra Equiha &Amp; Jorge Gutierrez, “El Tigre: The Adventures, of Manny Rivera Stephen Silver, “Kim Possible” Richard Webber, “Purple and Brown” Book […]

Mark Anderson writes on his blog that the Chicago Tribune is planning to change their Sunday comics from broadsheet to tabloid size. The comics appear to be tucked inside their section of “The Guide.” Below is the notice Mark posted. He’s promised to also post pictures when it comes out. Starting next Sunday, TV Week […]

Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of Perry Bible Fellowship and Tony Millionaire creator of Sock Monkey will be sharing an exhibit that opens April 3rd in Portland OR and runs through April 30th. Nicholas will be at Floating World Comics on April 27th to sign books. Original art and oversized prints will be available for purchase.

E&P reports that the second volume of the Milton Caniff’s classic Terry and the Pirates collection has been released. This second out of six volume is 352 pages with all the daily and Sunday strips that first appeared between 1937-1938.

For those who may have dropped out of the conversation regarding the web comics financial model (and what print/syndicated cartoonists can be learn from it), Scott has set up a call-in conference call for Friday at 7:00 p.m. EST. Here’s the details taken from the comment thread: Title: Cartoonist Meeting Episode Notes: re: the Daily […]

Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis is know for his crossing over other comic strip characters and parodies of other strips. Today’s PBS brings in Ted Forth of Sally Forth asking the concierge of a hotel about finding a “date” as his wife is “homely and bland.” What may not be apparent is that Francesco […]

Checker Book Publishing has teamed up with King Features to publish an early Beetle Bailey collection. The first book is entitled Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey 1950-1952. The book should hit bookshelves in May or June of this year.

» Gary Varvel, editorial cartoonist for the Tribune-Star, Indianapolis Star visited middle school children to tell them about his job and how to deal with rejection and the benefits of working hard.» Namco has released “Dilbert Cubicle Chaos” – a mobile game based on Scott Adam’s Dilbert feature. The game also allows for downloading the […]

Wes Alexander, who’s comic strip Stormfield was syndicated through DBR Media, has passed away at the age of 42 of causes yet to be disclosed. According to Journalista!, his feature had reached 450 newspapers.You can read more about Wes over on the Great Lakes NCS chapter site.