Daily Cartoonist closed for New Year’s day
BTW, I’m taking the day off. No updates today. I’ve got a back-log of stories so make sure you return tomorrow!Alan
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Happy Holidays from the Daily Cartoonist
© 2006 Alan Gardner. In observance of Christmas, I’m shutting down the blog until the 27th of December and then blogging might be sporadic as I wrap up a freelance project that is due at the end of the month.May you all have a wonderful RamaHanuKwanzMas.
I’m going to Vegas baby!
I’ll be in Las Vegas this Sunday through Tuesday for a tech conference. If there are any ‘toonists in the area who’d like to get together and talk shop over a favorite beverage or lunch, drop me an email. Likewise, if there is some event or exhibit related to cartooning in the area that would […]
Daily Cartoonist is closed for Thanksgiving
Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. I’ll resume blogging on Friday.Alan
Daily Cartoonist is closed – please go and vote
I’m closing down the blog for the day. Instead of blogging this morning, I’ll be standing in line waiting to touch a screen – hopefully demonstrating to the Iraqis and other fledgling democracies that I give a hoot about the democracy I live under – regardless of how well it’s managed. Later tonight I’ll be […]
Dilbert Weasel Awards posted
The 2006 Dilbert Weasel Awards have been posted. Over 40,000 people voted and the results are a hint of what is to come in next weeks mid-term election?Just look the winners and the margins they win by:Weaseliest Pundit/Reporter? Michael Moore 9383 votes NY Times 8831 Weaseliest Company? Halliburton 10436 Wal-Mart 8489 Weaseliest Politician? George W. […]
Happy Halloween to Daily Cartoonist visitors
Lio wins Hartford Courant’s online comic poll
Mark Tatulli’s Lio has won the Hartford Courant’s online comics poll according to E&P. That poll was protested by NCS President Rick Stromoski (who’s feature Soup to Nutz was not comic in the poll). Lio was up against Brevity, F Minus, On a Claire Day, and Silo Roberts.
Scott Adams should have won Nobel Prize
Paul B. Farrell of Market Watch thinks that a great injustice has been perpetrated by not awarding Scott Adams the Nobel Prize in Economics this year. This year, we were rooting for Adams. His simple formula reminds us of how, after being awarded the Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein spent his entire life searching for the […]
Happy Birthday to the Daily Cartoonist
Today the Daily Cartoonist turns 1 years old. Cake and ice cream over at my house tonight!
Thanks to Aaron Taylor
I want to take a moment to thank Aaron Taylor for once again assuming the reins of the Daily Cartoonist to make sure news was posted everyday while I was away on vacation. I knew before I left that there would be some big announcements (like Boondocks not returning), and I equally knew that Aaron would catch it all and get it posted.
Thank you, again, Aaron.
“Boondocks”: Longer hiatus or end of the strip?
Aaron McGruder, who in February put his strip “The Boondocks” on what was supposed to be a six-month hiatus, has not decided when, or if, he will return to the newspapers.According to an article from Editor & Publisher, Universal President Lee Salem said “it was obvious that Aaron would not be able to meet his […]
A columnist’s view of the current state of the comics page
Actually one columnist’s thoughts on what another columnist had to say about the decline of the comics page, brought to his attention by “Berry’s World” creator Jim Berry.
Chris Britt wins IPA award
Chris Britt of the The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois won first place for editorial cartoon in the latest Illinois Press Association competition.
Newspaper editor has beef with King Features’s online DailyINK
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to King Features Syndicate saying the existence of King’s DailyINK online service may mean King “places little value on syndication fees.” And he wondered if the syndicate should start paying newspapers to run comics.