Update:Comics Kingdom has Monday’s comics up. original post: It looks like that Dennis the Menace has gotten into our servers yet again! We’re experiencing technical difficulties at the moment and some comics may have not been updated. We apologize for this inconvenience and will update you as soon as we have everything corrected! Comics Kingdom is […]
I was this many years old when I found Pedro X. Molina on GoComics! And he’s been there for three months, since Counterpoint Syndication debuted!Upon discovery I immediately added that page to the “Comics i Follow.”© Pedro X. MolinaI guess we’ll soon see Eric Allie and Mike Beckom joining the GoComics list?
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication (aka Counterpoint Media) has expanded their roster of editorial cartoonists with the recent addition of Eric Allie and Mike Beckom.Their profiles and cartoon galleries join the original five (scroll down). Counterpoint Syndication now has seven – The Magnificent Seven?
As the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) continues to dismantle their comics syndication service, the Mike du Jour comic strip by Mike Lester has signed on with Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS). This week the title was added (out of alphabetical order) to the AMS page of syndicated comics.This move comes as the comic strip is […]
In the mid-1910s famed “Cowboys and Indians” artist Charles M. Russell began a new phase of his storied career – contributing illustrations and tales to newspapers, mostly for local Montana papers through the Montana Newspaper Association (MNA). The MNA offered Montana papers a four page ready print insert of Montana news and related stories, allowing […]
Rob Tornoe, for Editor & Publisher, takes a look at the current status of newspaper syndication as it involves comic strips and editorial cartoons (and puzzles).Rob starts the article with self-syndicated cartoonist Chad (Tundra) Carpenter. While “Tundra” has lost some papers that were forced to cut back or shutter during the pandemic, he did benefit […]
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication (CL&S) debuted on June 1 with six editorial cartoonists. The five core cartoonists from the old Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) each have a different way of crediting the Counterpoint syndicate.Lisa Benson, who has been a contributor to the original Counterpoint, continues after the switch with the same “Counterpoint.com” slug, using […]
June 1st, 2022 saw Dave Blazek move his Loose Parts panel from the Washington Post Writers Group to Andrews McMeel Syndication.left: WPWG May 31, 2022 (Tuesday); right: AMS June 1, 2022 (Wednesday)This is the 4th syndicate for Dave Blazek and Loose Parts. Los Angeles Times Syndicate April 20, 1998 – December 23 (24?), 2000 Tribune […]
Last month the news of a new syndicate for editorial cartoons broke.Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson said the new operation would go active June 1, 2022. And so it has as a Jack Ohman cartoon with a Sacramento Bee/ Counterpoint Media credit appeared today.© Sacramento Bee/Jack OhmanClay Bennett, Lisa Benson, Tim Campbell, Jeff Danziger, and Jack […]
Well, I might take a train I might take a plane But if I have to walk I’m going just the same I’m going to Kansas City Kansas City, here I come Everything you need to know about the 76th annual Reuben Awards Weekend in Kansas City, MO on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September, […]
The news of Counterpoint Media creating a new syndication division brought some questions with it. Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson was kind enough to answer a few of the questions we had.Foremost among concerns was, with this added to Nick’s schedule, it would slow his cartoon output.Said Nick:I will absolutely continue cartooning. I’m doing three cartoons […]
There’s a new syndicate in town!Counterpoint Media to Launch New Cartoon Syndication Platform The expansion into syndication will broaden Counterpoint’s mission to support independent political cartooning. From Counterpoint Media Group comes news of a new syndicate – Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication.Counterpoint Media, an independent organization of political cartoonists of all perspectives, will represent former Washington […]
A couple months ago we noted that the Washington Post Writers Group was “winding down” its syndicated editorial cartoon service. Their comic strip division may also be slowing down, if not ending. The creators of the Pickles comic strip and the Loose Parts comic panel have told The Daily Cartoonist that come June their features will […]
Forum Communications, an upper mid-west media company with a score of newspapers that can trace its publishing roots to 1878, has partnered with Comics Kingdom to bring their on-line readership the King Features Syndicate and Tribune Content Agency line of comic strips and panels.From DL-Online, the Detroit Lakes Tribune website: LOOK: DL-Online now features dozens […]
Right-wing forces are still ignoring facts and promoting divisiveness. Liberals are still gutless. Religion is still the greatest threat to peace and self-expression. … The only big difference is that I am now old. My sense of outrage at the stupidity and cruelty of those in power remains the same, but my desire to […]