Writer Mark Evanier reports that Howard Post, who worked primarily as a comic book cartoonist, has passed away from Alzheimer’s.Howard “Howie” Post, a mainstay of animation, comic books and strips since the mid-forties, passed away some time in the last week, reportedly due to Alzheimer’s. Howie was born November 2, 1926 and while no one […]

From the AAEC Notebook (online): Joseph S. Colello contacted the Notebook recently about an effort to get cartoonist Rollin Kirby, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize (and who went on to win two more times), on a U.S. Postal Stamp. “As an octognenarian, I have had a 35-year interest in Pulitzer winner Rolllin Kirby, […]

Earlier this month, Jonathan Rosenberg made news by announcing that he was considering bringing his webcomic Goats to and end and focus on other projects. The Daily Cross Hatch interviews Jonathan about his plans for Goats and future plans in general. You’ve seen a lot of strips come and go, since then. You’ve seen what […]

I know my kids will be estatic. Wimpy Kid fans (and parents of Wimpy Kid fans), rejoice! The latest installment of the hugely popular series by University of Maryland grad Jeff Kinney is scheduled for a November 1 release. There aren’t many details known about book number five — except that the cover will be […]

So far I haven’t seen reports of massive rioting or killings that was associated with the publishing of the original Danish Cartoons, but here is the aftermath of the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day as I can determine.» The Swedish government has closed their embassy in Pakistan “because of a threat” according to a report by […]

Once more, Kieran Meehan’s gift for bathos comes to the fore. Pros and Cons has an ability to set up and deflate that wouldn’t work half as well if the deflators did not invariably look demented.In, of course, the most positive, cheerful and endearing sense of the term. A lot of cartoonists get mail from […]

Wiley Miller is a bit of a media junkie, so it’s quite possible that he knew the 40th anniversary of the ATM was coming up next month when he drew this Non Sequitur.However, the comics sections were already printed and delivered to newspapers around the country when this happened.It’s either quite a coincidence or the […]

(This is one of a series of cartoonist profiles I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. This particular profile is colored by the fact that McPherson lives in the area.)Close to Home” is created in Saratoga Springs, where John McPherson shares work space with other artists in a building they call […]

I didn’t think a syndicated strip would participate in the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day event, but I received an email pointing to yesterday’s Over the Hedge by T. Lewis and Michael Fry. I asked Michael if there was any hestitation to joining the event and he responded, “No. No second thoughts. I wrote two versions. […]

South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro(Zapiro) joined in the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, and before his cartoon could go to press, the Islamic theological body, the Jamiatul Ulama tried to stop the cartoon from being published by appealing to the Johannesburg High Cout.  The offending cartoon depicts the prophet lying down on a therapist’s chair, saying: […]

Nemi not only cracked me up several places in this panel, but made me feel even older than usual, given that I was already a little beyond hip by the time Phil Collins came on the scene. Okay, I’m not middle-aged anymore, kid, I get it. ‘Zounds!(See anything in this cartoon that probably wouldn’t have […]

According to Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy, Mengxin Li has won this year’s 2010 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. She is a Film and Animation major at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Li was born in China and grew-up in Japan. She received the third place prize at the Beijing International Student Animation […]

From Daryl Cagle’s blog: As incredible as it might seem for a modern European democracy, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is suing for an apology and EUR33,000 ($43,000.00) for a political cartoon, drawn by Martin “Shooty” Sutovec for the SME Daily newspaper, that mocked the Prime Minister’s health by suggesting he didn’t have a backbone. […]

Julie Larson’s The Dinette Set is now with United Feature Syndicate. Julie left Creators Syndicate in January to pursue self syndication citing that she could “sell just as well as a syndicate, especially when it’s one’s own property. I know its going to get #1 priority.” Multiple attempts to contact Julie to ask why the […]

The New York Times reports that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has also blocked YouTube, as well as “certain pages on the Flickr and Wikipedia sites.” “Earlier we were blocking the links,” he said of YouTube, “but when content increased we had to block the whole Web site.” The ban, which also included certain pages on […]