Another American woman has allegedly been tied to the plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. The Colorado woman, identified as Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, was one of the seven arrested in Ireland, though she was not charged. CNN reports that she was released on Saturday.

Chris Sharron, a senior cartoonist for the Daily Kent Stater in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) at Kent State University, earned a coveted National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The National Journalism Awards honor the best work in the communications industry and journalism education each year.Chris will receive $10,000 and […]

John Hambrock’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has not been around terribly long, which makes it remarkable in that it’s one of the few strips to come out in the past 5 years that hasn’t included minimal graphics and a misanthropic animal as its lead character. But there is another thread in emerging strips […]

Don’t Believe In That What the Irish Roman Catholic Children will be told to do next: “Kick it out Peaceably.” (The controversy in 1872 was teaching of Protestant religion in public schools, to which Catholics objected. Nast’s frequent attacks on the Catholic Church in general and his depictions of the Irish as ape-like brutes made […]

There are certain strips I have to be very critical of or they’d be here every day. Cul de Sac is definitely in that class, but I’m living with a couple of little girls not much older than Alice and the question “Where did THAT come from?” is a regular feature of life here. And […]

Tom Richmond reports that MAD magazine will go from a quarterly mag to bimonthly. No further details, but as John says this will mean not only a lot more MAD to be had but also a return to more topical material. MAD has been hampered by being completely unable to riff on timely subjects due […]

Douglas Wolk, writing for the New York Times, writes about the surge of comic strip republications lately. As the modern-day American newspaper comic strip slowly chokes to death, done in by shrinking spaces and exhausted franchises, its more vibrant ancestors are living in renewed luxury. Comic strips are the most ephemeral kind of art; each […]

Movie to debut on May 21 in #d theaters and IMAX 3D.

Congrats to Rob Tornoe: I’m happy to announce that starting with March’s issue, I’m back drawing cartoons for Editor & Publisher magazine. For those of you that don’t know, E&P is the monthly trade journal that has covered the newspaper industry for 125 years. Back in December, there was a bit of a scare when […]

This strip by Kieran Meehan tends to fly below the radar, but I get a chuckle out of it regularly and a real laugh far more often than average. Originally titled “A Lawyer, A Doctor and a Cop,” it’s now called “Pros and Cons” but is still about a lawyer, a doctor and a cop. […]

A recent editorial cartoon by Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth has hacked off supporters of South Philly High principal LaGreta Brown who was depicted as sleeping on the job. J. Whyatt Mondesire, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, called the cartoon “disgusting. It is a lie. It is offensive. The Inquirer should […]

A Phantom four hour mini-series is set to air in June on the SyFy channel. While still based on the classic comic strip hero created by Lee Falk, the new miniseries radically updates The Phantom’s traditional costume and setting. The miniseries first aired in Canada at the end of December and has finally been put […]

From USA Today: In his studio, a converted bedroom in his four-bedroom Manhattan apartment, Feiffer calls his illustrated book (more text than cartoons) a “cautionary tale” about “getting rejected and slapped in the face by the powers-that-be.” As he writes: “Success is nothing to sneeze at, but failure, too, offers great possibilities. And always remember, […]

I’m in favor of health care reform and I’m tired of distortions, deceptions and party-line negativity. Maybe that last part is why I like this Scott Stantis cartoon. Stantis is a conservative, but, as I noted when featuring his daily strip, “Prickly City,” he’s not a toe-the-line loyalist. This cartoon is a pretty good example […]

I reported earlier that seven people were arrested in Ireland for allegedly plotting to kill Swede cartoonst Lars Vilks. A Pennsylvania woman who calls herself “JihadJan” has also been arrested in connection to that assassination plot. Ms. LaRose, 46, was arrested in Philadelphia in October, but her case was kept under seal. Although the indictment […]