In a USA Today interview, Jim Davis mentioned that his short run comic U.S Acres is now running on Garfield.com. U.S. Acres ran from March of 1986 through May of 1989 and features a group of barnyard animals. An animated TV show Garfield and Friends was based on characters from U.S. Acres. Looking through the […]

USAToday invited Jim Davis to answer a few questions from fans. Posted are a few decent questions among them include: What’s the strangest Garfield merchandise someone’s ever proposed? And whose work do you admire today?

    Frankly, if I hadn’t been tickled by the concept in today’s Non Sequitur, I think the dragon would have sold me anyway. He’s so perfectly reasonable looking! And I’m sure that his cave is already filled with coffeemugs and totebags.I’ll admit it, I love dragons. Probably because, when I was a little boy, my […]

OCWeekly.com has a list of female comic creators. The list is heavy on webcomic and graphic novels but includes Julia Wertz (Fart Party), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Amy Reeder Hadley (Tokyopop’s Fool’s Gold), Jöelle Jones (12 Reasons Why I Love Her), Julia Gfrörer (Flesh and Bone), G. Willow Wilson (Cairo).Regarding the list, Joe Vince […]

Back in January a Delta College comic strip upset the community of Saginaw, MI because it painted the town negatively as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon, created by Rashad Baiyasi and David Ferrier, was honored with a first place win in the division three colleges of the Michigan Press Association. According to […]

I haven’t run more than one strip as a “Comic Strip of the Day” before and I don’t intend to make a habit of it, the name of the blog seeming to obviously rule against it.But here are two strips that ran today and might as well have been linked from the start. It’s not […]

Apparently the earlier cover featuring Obama and Palin was so good they felt they needed to do it again. Archie Comics will announce on Tuesday variant covers on the Obama-Palin theme, with one cover showing Obama poised to clash with Palin in midair, while another ? labeled “The Fight for America!” ? depicting Obama and […]

Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com editorial cartoonist and founder of Cagle Cartoons, has posted his advise to any editorial cartoonist that wants to do better marketing him/herself. Here is his first piece of advice: THINK OF WHAT EDITORS WANT There is a self-important attitude that editorial cartoonists develop, thinking of themselves as serious journalists who draw about […]

I’ve been hoping that Matt Bors would pull his Afghanistan cartoons into one place where you could leaf through them in order, but the best I can do is point you to his blog, where they are mixed in with some other things, but there nonetheless.It’s worth the scrolling, because, while Bors is often highly […]

Tom Racine has posted his 100th Tall Tale Radio podcast. Featured interview includes Michael Cavna and “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” winner Olivia Walch. Tom has also introduced a bi-monthly news segment where he and I banter about the comic headlines.Happy 100, Tom!

Universal Uclick has confirmed that several papers (upwards of 20) have asked for a replacement for this Sunday’s Non Sequitur because it mentions the word “Muhammad.” The cartoon by Wiley Miller depicts a lazy, sunny park scene with the caption, “Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher… ‘Where’s Muhammad?’” Characters in […]

Universal Uclick has put together a small tribute video to Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy. Check it out on the GoComics.com blog. Cathy Guisewite brings 34 years of Cathy to a close on October 3rd. To celebrate the historic success of Cathy (the strip and the cartoonist), we’ve put together a tribute video, featuring some of the […]

At first glance, today’s F Minus was amusing, but then I started thinking, well, wait a minute, where DID seconds come from? I know about dividing time into years, which took a few tries to get right, and about months, which would make more sense if they were completely lunar, but got caught up in […]

This trailer makes me less excited to see it than the first.More Yogi Bear Videos

Headline pretty much says it all. Every Andrews McMeel Universal employees to receive an original Cathy comic.As Bill Amend noted, “Incredibly generous.”