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Jim Toomey begins Gulf oil spill series

Beginning yesterday, Jim Toomey’s Sherman’s Lagoon launches into a two week series taking his characters to the Gulf of Mexico on a mission to save the sea creatures affected by the BP oil spill. Jim is in a unique position to use his strip to build awareness for the affected sea life. After reading the […]

CSotD: Retail development

For several weeks now, Retail has been starting a secondary storyline about its main character, Marla, and her impending marriage. That should send up all sorts of warning flags, since the strip has been tightly focused on retailing, but (1) if Norm Feuti brings the same cynical reality to weddings that he’s brought to management […]

Edward Ashley passes at age 88

‘Edward Ashley, the editorial cartoonist for The Blade (OH) during the 70’s and 80’s, has passed away at the age of 88. The announcement in the Toledo Blade offered a comment by current cartoonist Kirk Walters. “He was a great guy and one of the best cartoonists,” said Kirk Walters, who succeeded Mr. Ashley in […]

Apple rejects Tiger Wood app. Again

Daryl Cagle writes on his blog that his second attempt to get his Tiger Woods Cartoon App through the iTunes App store has proven unsuccessful. Again the denial is based on the “ridiculing public figures” clause. Since Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself said that the policy was changed for editorial cartoons (you can read the […]

Brenda Starr turns 70 tomorrow

According to the Gaylord Herald Times, Brenda Starr turns 70 tomorrow. The comic was created by Dalia Messick back in 1940. Today the feature is written by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich and drawn by June Brigman. June is quoted in the Herald Times: “It’s been a great honor to draw Brenda and become a […]

Comic page changes for the week

Only two reported comic page changes that I can see recently. The Modesto Bee is test driving six new comics for the next month. Up to bat are Dustin, Bizarro, Oh Brother!, Fort Knox, Barney and Clyde and Home and Away.The Times Leader (PA) has added two new strips (without dropping any) to their line-up. […]

CSotD: Playing a familiar cord

Okay, this time it’s personal. Zits happens to have used this gag the morning after I finally closed my eyes, clenched my teeth and plugged in what I hoped was the right power source.Three weeks ago, my computer died and needed a system restore, which, you may know, wipes it entirely clean and brings it […]

The Lion King, Beauty, to be released in 3D

Empire online is reporting that Walt Disney will be releasing Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King will be released in 3D in the future. First, Hahn revealed that Beauty And The Beast isn?t the only Disney classic about to go 3D. A certain cartoon starring a warthog and a meerkat will be returning […]

CSotD: Those were the days, my friend

 Lincoln Peirce’s “Big Nate” is about life in the sixth grade, but school is out and apparently this is a world in which kids are not overscheduled into back-to-back-to-back camps, activities and sports.This isn’t a particularly new joke: An Irish friend used it once as a demonstration of the difference between the old Ireland and […]

The return of the Cartoonist’s Cartoonists

Back in the late 2007, I began a feature called, “The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists” – a tribute feature where a notable cartoonist is invited to share with The Daily Cartoonist readers the cartoonists (or artists) that they feel have had an impact on their work or whose work they admire. Think of it as a celebrity […]

Cartoonist’s Cartoonists: Dan Piraro

Dan’s website Dan’s blog Follow Dan on Twitter Find Bizarro books at Amazon News Coverage Download his Bizarro app from the App Store With the return of the Cartoonist’s Cartoonists feature, I could think of no better person to kick it off than this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]

Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Stephens launch Oh, Brother!

Today King Features launches a new comic strip entitled Oh, Brother! by Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids creator Bob Weber Jr. and Emmy Award-winning creator of Secret Saturdays and Tutenstein Jay Stephens. Oh, Brother! is centered around a precocious younger brother, Bud, and a more sensible slightly older sister, Lily.From King’s announcement to their […]

CSotD: Geek humor for the rest of us

The prolific Bill Holbrook offers a gag in On the Fastrack today that avoids being too geeky for most people to understand but is up several steps from the “what is this consarn newfangled thing?” level. I think there’s a large number of people who, like me, know when the brakes on the car need […]

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