Members of UK’s Pirate party can vote in pirate attire.Westminster Council?s Nigel Tonkin, who has been organizing elections for 35 years, has been commenting to the BBC on the do?s and don?t at the polling station. He confirmed that party insignia and emblems are not allowed, but that Pirate Party voters are free to show […]

There’s a bit of buzz floating around about a rumor that AT&T made a deal with Apple to keep the iPhone exclusive with them until early 2011.In any event, during the course of negotiations, AT&T agreed to offer Apple a deal on bandwidth rates for the iPad 3G in exchange for a 6 month extension […]

During Jay Leno’s monologue, he showed a screen shot of alleged New York Times Faisal Shahzad’s Facebook account. Under “Members Of” you’ll find “Team Coco” a reference to fans of Conan O’Brien.Way to go Leno.

I finished the John and Anne Hambrock interview yesterday. As always a great podcast in the can for Tom Racine. The trio discussed John’s nomination as Best Newspaper Comic strip and a detour discussion on recent movies.

The momentum toward digital publishing continues with Google entering in the eBook market. Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing about its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish Google Editions in the marketplace by allowing users to access […]

A couple of book announcements that have caught my eye:Darby Conley’s is coming out with a Get Fuzzy new collection called “Treasury of the Lost Litter Box: A Get Fuzzy Treasury”Kieth Knight will release his first collection of The Knight Life. The book is entitled, “The Knight Life: “Chivalry Ain’t Dead””And lastly, Mark Tatulli has […]

Seems to be web comic week or something. Sheldon is, as I have come to understand it, a story obstensibly about a young genius billionaire who lives with his grandfather and, early in the strip, accidentally uploaded a dictionary into a duck. Dave Kellett has wisely backed away from the rich genius aspect of the […]

The Born Loser will turn 45 next Saturday. The strip was first created by Art Sansom and has continued with his son, Chip. Here’s the full press release: On May 15, the most lovable loser in the comics is celebrating 45 years of being ridiculed, scorned, and mocked … which has provided endless amusement for […]

Jon Rosenberg, considered one of the more successful webcomics, appears to be creatively frustrated with the webcomic model for his Goats feature. His original plan was to end the feature in 2012, but the economy has made him think about wrapping the feature up earlier and moving on to a new comic with “more economic […]

Anyone doing anything related the unofficial day to celebrate cartooning?

xkcd is that phenomenon we’ve been hearing about: The niche cartoon that can become incredibly popular without having mass appeal because it’s on the web where the true believers can find it. A syndicated cartoon has to be able to get good numbers within each newspaper’s geographic distribution level. A web comic can pick up […]

Rob Tornoe, editorial cartoonist for Editor & Publisher, The Press of Atlantic City and Cagle Cartoons, is launching a print humor magazine at the end of June. In his announcement, he writes: People are quick to point out that with the internet, they can read everything they want on their glowing, irritating computer screen. And […]

Brian Bassett’s Red and Rover has switched syndicates. The strip that was launched by the Washington Post Writers Group in 2000 is now a Universal Uclick feature. The announcement was made on GoComics.com. I noted that the legal fine print one each strip still states it’s distributed through Washington Post Writers Group. I’m told that […]

Nine more NCS members have returned from a tour through Germany and Washington D.C. with the USO. This tour sent out Ray Alma (Mad magazine, caricaturist), Chad Carpenter (Tundra), Rob Harrell (Big Top and Adam@Home), Bruce Higdon (Army cartoonists and caricaturists), Mason Mastoianni (B.C.), Dave Mowder (licensing artist for Warner Bros, Disney and Peanuts), Stephen […]

Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian, was awarded this year’s Society of Professional Journalism’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards for editorial cartooning in the 100,000+ circulation category. Dwayne Booth (AKA Mr. Fish) took the prize for the 50k-100k circulation category and Terrence L. Nowicki, Jr. won for the non-daily publication category.No prize was awarded for […]