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A new and improved(ing) Daily Cartoonist rolls out today

by Alan Gardner

This blog is certainly growing at a fast clip and in an effort to provide you with the features you requested back in early April, I’ve rethought the layout and content of this blog.� I haven’t got rid of any thing (except some advertising) but starting this week, I’ll roll out an events calendar and next Monday will debut the first “In Focus” article – where we take a look at something big happening in the cartooning community.

Jim Borgman celebrates 30 years at Cincinnati Enquirer

by Alan Gardner

They didn’t post many requirements if any – which means if Mike Luckovich hasn’t satisfied with the Pulitzer, and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award – he can enter too.We are celebrating Jim Borgman?s 30th anniversary this year as the Enquirer?s editorial cartoonist and want your help…. We will publish your cartoon and Jim?s in print and online.E-mail your entry by filling out the following form, or send your cartoon via ‘snail mail’ to: Borgman Challenge, Life section, 312 Elm St., Cincinnati 45202.

Doonesbury was the start of a new comic era

by Alan Gardner

His characters have dealt with AIDS, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, college students, gun control and other issues.Trudeau has remained current.  Recent themes have included the problems of wounded veterans returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — not the sort of thing you’d find in Family Circus.Almost from the first, some have argued that Doonesbury belongs on the editorial page, not in the comics.

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