Interesting factoid that has very little to do with this week’s pledge drive, but I think the coincidence is interesting. Today, 15 years ago, the Seinfeld “Pledge Drive” episode originally aired. The plot revolved around people eating Snickers with a knife and fork, Dan the “high-talker,” Elaine accidentally telling Jerry’s grandmother to drop dead, George […]
Last year I started a NPR style pledge drive to allow my regulars readers who value my work to make a donation as a token of thanks. Since it was the first year, I wasn’t sure how successful it would be. It was gratifying to see the show of support and I’m very grateful to […]
The Daily Cartoonist turns four years old today. Don’t know about you all, but it feels like a long time ago. I appreciate all of you who have been long time regulars and those who are relatively new. When I first launched the blog, I didn’t promote it. I was hoping to build a backlog […]
A hearty thanks goes out to Aaron Taylor who kept the blog updated last week while I was vacationing in Southern California. I checked in from time to time when I had a spare minute and was pleased to see things humming along without me. Thank you Aaron! We’ll do lunch soon, my treat!
Just a heads up, I will be handing over the reins of The Daily Cartoonist to my good friend Aaron Taylor whilst my family and I are away on vacation next week. He will keep the news delivered hot and ready each day next week. Please make it easy for him by minding the comment […]
For the last couple of weeks, the traffic on TDC has been spiking and causing some above average processing power to keep the site running. Yesterday, my hosting company had to disable the site. After reviewing the stats with their customer support, they allowed me to bring back the site with some modifications that hopefully […]
April and May are crunch month for a number of projects that I’m working on for my day job. I’ve been working long hours and opting to sleep through my normal blogging hours as a result. As such, blogging will be minimal today and tomorrow. If there is a news story that you think ought […]
Yesterday afternoon The Daily Cartoonist went down. The cause as far as I can determine was a rogue database query that pounded on the server. My hosting company disabled the account to protect other sites hosted on the same server. I’ve not been happy with said hosting company for a while now, so this seemed […]
To those who have been commenting this week and not seeing your comments posted, I’ve approved them. Apparently as I was prepping the site to allow contributors last weekend, I accidentally set the option that required all comments to be approved if the the commentor hasn’t been flagged as approved previously. Some 25+ comments were […]
This is a quick screencast I created to help you who are creating accounts to make sure your account will display your first and last name in the comment section as well as when you submit news stories.The not-a-video instructions are as follows:1. Log into TDC 2. Click on “Profile” on the left hand side […]
Beginning today, The Daily Cartoonists takes an evolutionary step toward fulfilling its place as THE news source for professional cartoonists. Up until now, the topics of the blog have been based on what I find interesting and more often than not what I have time to post. I have lamented that many worthwhile stories aren’t […]
Q1. Who can post stories on the blog?A1. Anyone can write for the blog. You must register and use your full name when posting comments or blog posts.Q2. Are we restricted on what we can write about?A2. Submissions must be related to cartooning, whether that be print, web, animation, etc. I will be fact checking […]
Before you can submit a news story, review, or discussion topic to the blog, you need to register for an account. All stories and comments on the blog must include your first and last name. Make sure when you create your account you set the “Display name publicly as” to your first and last name.To […]
If things start going weird – I’m doing some service on the site. Please come back in a few hours.UPDATE: Update is done. If you see anything going awry, please email me.Thanks, Alan
I’m taking the rest of the holiday off. I’ll be posting the annual End of the Year review sometime between today and, well the end of the year. If something big and newsworthy does happen, I’ll post that as well.Enjoy the holidays and I’ll see you back here on January 5th.