The USA TODAY Network/Gannett group has released a list of the selected 34 comic strips and panels that local editors and publishers will* choose from to run in their newspapers – not all will run in all (any?) of the papers. From The Fort Collins Coloradoan: Here’s a look at the comic strips readers will […]
Joining The Memphis Commercial Appeal’s announcement of comics page changes yesterday are dozens more Gannett newspapers letting their readers know about the new comics pages they can expect soon. Most are explaining the change with some form of “The USA TODAY Network is standardizing its comic offerings across its more than 200 publications.” The Newport […]
In response to The Daily Cartoonist story about Gannett unifying their comics pages, the newspaper group has sent a correction: In your “The New Gannett Unified Comics Pages” post, you note all USA TODAY NETWORK publications will carry the “exact same comics” which is inaccurate [emphasis added]. We are unifying our print comics package, but […]
Gannett’s USA TODAY Network of newspapers will all carry the exact same comics from a seemingly select list on their comics pages when the largest publisher of newspapers unifies the comics they carry beginning October 2, 2023. While newspapers across America will be informing readers of the changes over the next week, today it was […]
On September 13, 2022, as part of the Lee Enterprises newspaper group, the Daily Journal of Park Hill, Missouri, on orders from headquarters, switched out their long running comics for the new standard Lee half-page: Two months ago Lee sold The Daily Journal to Better Newspapers, Inc. From Editor & Publisher: Greg Hoskins’ Better Newspapers […]
Two popular New Yorker magazine cartoonists, who also happen to be West Tisbury neighbors and dog-walking partners, shared the stage at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs Monday for a two-handed talk about the craft they share. © Mick Stevens and Paul KarasikMick Stevens and Paul Karasik “[discussed] slides of their work, trading […]
Editor’s Note: As part of the continued evolution of our business and due to changing reader habits, McClatchy will no longer publish daily opinion cartoons, including on the Herald-Leader’s Opinion page. The Herald-Leader has been proud to publish the work of Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Pett, who has contributed timely, thought-provoking, accountability-focused work to these […]
(photo: NBC)With all due respect, they got it wrong. When Cheers was taken over by a corporation, they brought in Rebecca Howe and she was the boss and eventually Sam bought the bar back and he was back in charge.Well, it was a comedy after all. In the real world, as in the show, Sam […]
The Associated Press drops the story of McClatchy ridding themselves of political cartoons and cartoonists. Here, via the Voice of America, is the AP article by David Bauder: The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of […]
On Wednesday The Quad City Times published a cartoon by Leo Kelly taking a swipe at MAGA racism, but the cartoon invoked a Simpsons character whose name has become offensive to many and so the tables were turned with the newspaper and the cartoonist being accused of racism.The cartoon came to presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s […]
Prairie Mountain Publishing, an arm of Digital First Media/Alden Global Capital, has consolidated the Sunday comics section of four of their north-central Colorado newspapers: the Loveland Reporter-Herald, Longmont Times-Call, Greeley Tribune, and Boulder Daily Camera. From The Loveland Reporter-Herald: In our ongoing effort to make the best use of our shared resources, Prairie Mountain Media […]
As we reported a month ago Lee Enterprises newspapers are reducing their publication schedule to three days a week. We then didn’t know if other Lee papers would follow suit and jump in. Well, it seems the publisher is going into the pool one toe at a time. A few days after that first group […]
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“Pickles” is safe. So is “Zits.” And please, no calls about “Prince Valiant.” Our hero survives. We are making some changes to our daily and Sunday comics and puzzle lineup, which readers will notice beginning today, but all the old standards are safe. Editor Andy Ostmeyer explains to readers the comic changes that begin with […]
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print edition of the paper will change its publication and delivery schedules while expanding its content. From The McDowell News: … With all of that in mind, and in an effort to preserve the excellent local […]