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Today the Daily Cartoonist turns 1 years old. Cake and ice cream over at my house tonight!

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 […]

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 of the The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois won first place for editorial cartoon in the latest Illinois Press Association competition.

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.

Next week I’ll be taking a much anticipated vacation as my wife and I celebrate our 10 year anniversary. I’m completely okay with leaving the kids behind for 10 days, but leaving the blog unattended is putting a twist my knickers. I’ve asked Aaron Taylor to help things going, but not wanting to place too much burden on him, I’m opening the door to others who would like to take a turn behind the reporters desk of the Daily Cartoonist. Read on for details on how to register to post news on the Daily Cartoonist.

Earlier this week, I told you that a Baldo creators Carlos Castellanos and Hector Cantu inserted the likeness of one of their fans into their feature as part of a fund raising effort.  In a very familiar story out of the Toledo Blade – Neal Rubin, a Detroit News columnist who writes Gil Thorp, was contacted by an individual asking him to use the likeness of an area high school coach Chris Hardman.

In observance of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, I will not be posting news to the blog this weekend. See you all on Tuesday.

If you can see this posting, you’ve arrived at the new server and all is well. Feel free to add your comments to stories. If you see any problems with the blog, please email me (editor@dailycartoonist.com).Enjoy.

Just a friendly heads up that in the next couple of days, I’ll be moving this blog to another hosting provider.  For most of you the transition will be seamless and you’ll never know that anything had changed.  During the 2-3 days that the DNS record is propagated throughout the Internet, there will actually be two instances of the Daily Cartoonist running – one on the old server environment and another in the new.  The only complication this creates is if someone makes a comment on a posting on the old server after I’ve moved all the content to the new.  In such cases, I’ll do my very best to catch all comments and move them over manually.

Thanks for your continued visits!

Greg Evan’s Luann will be the center of attention at the Luann & Friends: Comic Families exhibit in California Center for the Arts, Encondido Museum (CA) that is running now through September.  The exhibit also includes work from Jim Davis (Garfield), Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues), Lynn Johnston (For Better or for Worse) and Brian Crane (Pickles).

I will not be updating the site today in observance of Independence Day.  I’ll resume posting tomorrow.

Mike Lynch writes in to report that this years Bunny Bash has broken all records for the number of professional cartoonists convening at Bunny Hoest’s Long Island home.  According to Mike, the annual Bunny Bash rivals the NCS Reubens for attendance by professional cartoonists.