Joplin Globe Funny Pages Less Funny
“Pickles” is safe. So is “Zits.” And please, no calls about “Prince Valiant.” Our hero survives. We are making some…
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Expanded Lee Enterprises Papers Coming Soon … And Half as Often … By Mail
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print…
Paper’s Solution To Cartoon Criticism? Less
I’m writing this as a concerned citizen of Napa and former president of PFLAG Napa. Tom Stiglich’s cartoon on April…
When What You Love is Self-Destructing
Kevin Necessary got a letter asking why he is no longer drawing editorial cartoons. He tore up the first draft…
Mike Thompson Joins Star Tribune Staff
A year after being let go by the USA Today/Gannett chain of newspapers, editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson has joined the…
Newspaper Well Check/Death Watch
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of…
Saturday Briefing
Morten Morland, a frequent Mike Peterson choice, has been named The Press Awards’ Cartoonist of the Year. Hat tip to…
Another One (or 3) Bites the Dust
The final print editions of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, and The Mobile Press-Register, the three newspapers that comprised…
Comics Page Returns to Daily News
The comics page has returned to The Washington County (Wis.) Daily News and The Waukesha Freeman. A while back a…
OT: NY Times Crossword on First Day of Hanukkah
The New York Times created a social media storm when their Sunday crossword puzzle layout for December 18, 2022 (the…
Reader Didn’t Get The Funnies; But What Version?
Oregonian Editor Therese Bottomly received a complaint from a reader: The other weekend, I received an email from an unhappy…
Postmedia (Canada) Went Full Andrews McMeel
The notice (for me) came with a letter to the editor of The Windsor Star: I recently read letters to…
WaPo Kills Style Invitational; Staake Loses Job
After running for nearly 30 years (since March 7, 1993) The Washington Post has canceled their popular Style Invitational feature….
Alabama Media Group Goes All Digital
The Alabama Media Group has announced that it will no longer publish newspaper hard copies. front pages via Newseum After…
Cartoon Carnival
What’s a carnival without a side show? Presenting Keith Knight, the Two-Headed Man! Midway Games. Can you pass…