We’re about a month away from this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art. If you’ve been sitting on the fence whether to attend this year’s festival, you may want to make up your mind quickly. I’m told seats are going quickly. Registration ends October 12 or until all seats are sold.This year’s Festival will be held […]

The amazement, incredulity and puzzlement over the possibility of compromise should have been a clue that this tiny opening wasn’t going to last long enough to slip a cartoon through it. But I like Pat Oliphant’s talent for the jugular and his ability to use funny pictures to create an unfunny effect.And, on a political […]

Ballard Street creator Jerry Van Amerongen is retiring the Sunday version of his strip. Jerry tells me that it takes him two days to produce his Sunday cartoon and ending the Sunday comic will ease “the deadline pressures I maintained for the last 30 years.” Additionally he plans on spending the extra time each week, […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is saluting two of its long-time Secretary/Treasurer Cullum Rogers and Minister of Information JP Trostle in their latest quarterly Notebook. Cullum has been the organizations treasurer for the last 12 years – an AAEC record. Up coming treasurer R.C. Harvey writes about Cullum’s tenure and influence. JP has been […]

Drew Litton and Rich Moyer have teamed up to produce what they hope will be the first of many Monday Night Football related animations.

Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett has won the Society of Professional Journalist’s 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards for editorial cartooning. The awards recognize the best in print, broadcast and online journalism produced throughout eleven southeastern states. Editorial cartoonist Bill Day of United Features Syndicate took second place and third place went to […]

I’m currently working on a newspaper serial story for young readers that takes place during Prohibition, and came across this cartoon while doing research. Well, we won’t be passing this one on to the kiddies, but if anyone recognizes the artist, I’d love to know who did it. The only thing that was posted on […]

One of the major rules in creating three-dimensional characters is to know more about them than you necessarily share. Comics are, for the most part, two-dimensional in both a graphic and a conceptual sense, with the characters having limited if any back-stories, and the back-stories that do exist being mostly an archive of episodes rather […]

This Cul de Sac comes a day after I ordered a couple of things for upcoming grandchild birthdays. I’m sure I’m just as tuned in to their interests as Alice’s dad.It was always like this with their parents.

Mark your calendar if you live in the Pittsburg area. The Toonseum is presenting the first ever Pittsburgh Indy Comics Expo (PIX) this October. The expo is devoted to “creator-owned, self-published, small-press, and handmade comics.” PIX will be held at the newly refurbished 17,000 square foot top floor of the Guardian Storage facility located at […]

This year’s Penny Arcade Expo boasts its attendance has set a record at 67,000 attendees and that future events may be limited not by interest, but by the size of the venue. The expo is a spin off to the gaming webcomic Penny Arcade created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.

Bill Boyarsky, writing for LA Observed, recounts the rocky history of Paul Conrad’s employment with the LA Times toward the end of his official career with the paper in the mid-90’s. Otis Chandler steadfastly protected Conrad from criticisms from conservative Chandler family members and Times Mirror executives, who didn’t feel the camaraderie that Conrad shared […]

In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller imagines a world in which people get what they ask for. The theoretical argument that we don’t need a nanny state tends to break down quickly as soon as some individual realizes that government exists for a purpose, and it isn’t simply to pave the roads. Or build nice […]

Universal Uclick has announced that this February they will be the syndicating Charles Schulz’ classic comic strip Peanuts. The acquisition was made possible after the Schulz family formed Peanuts Worldwide LLC, a joint venture owned 80% by Iconix Brand Group, Inc. and 20% by members of the family, and purchased the copyrights from United Media. […]

A comic strip biography of Lady Gaga has been hit with a legal action by the singer. While the comic strip, “Fame: Lady Gaga” has sold out, she contends that it was not authorized. She joins Justin Bieber who is also suing the comic strip creators Bluewater Productions. His book is due out in October. […]