Lots of anniversaries lately. Here’s another. According to John Glynn over at the GoComics editors blog, editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant is celebrating 30 years with Universal Uclick.

Kudos to RingTales and Richard Thompson for two more Cul de Sac animations.

I will admit, I’ve always liked Andy Rooney ever since a rant a decade or so about how technology doesn’t really make things better (microwaves don’t make better food than oven, computers don’t make better writers than a typewriter, etc.). Like him or not, here he sounds off about how “funny” the funny pages are.Hat […]

The AP reports that terrorism charges have been filed against Jamie Paulin-Ramirez. Originally from Colorado, she was one of the seven arrested in Ireland allegedly plotting to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks. Paulin-Ramirez is linked to Colleen LaRose (aka JihadJane) who was earlier arrested in Pennsylvania.

Newspaper folks have always been known for their dark humor. There’s more than enough of that to do around these days, and Darrin Bell taps into some for “Candorville.”Any attempt on my part to comment would result in a tirade. Never mind. Darrin’s got it.

This is a profile I did of “Cleats” creator Bill Hinds that ran January 20, 2003, in the Post-Star, Glens Falls, NY Bill Hinds was a hit with your kids before he even began writing and drawing “Cleats.”Surprised?Though known among grown-ups as the artist half of the “Tank McNamara” sports-oriented comic strip, Hinds is also […]

Doonesbury wraps up a week in which Zonker attended a Tea Party rally and found kindred spirits. For those of us who remember the old days, this was a funny sequence because of a basic journalistic truth: The camera loves the craziest people present. And so does Zonker.And it’s so nice to see Zonker and […]

Congrats to Dave Whamond whose panel Reality Check turns 15 years old tomorrow. Dave doesn’t see the world in the same way most of us do. Dave finds humor and silliness in everything, which is exactly why his comic panel Reality Check continues to give readers a laugh. On April 3, Reality Check celebrates 15 […]

Steve McGarry, creator of Biographic and Kid City has added a third package for the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament. If having three features wasn’t interesting enough, he’s now represented by three different syndicates: Universal (Biographic); United Media (Kid City) and now Washington Post Writers Group (World Cup 2010). Anyone know if this sets a […]

The farther apartheid fades into the past, the harder it can be to follow the sharp social satire of “Madame & Eve,” a groundbreaking cartoon from South Africa. Born in 1992 along with the “new” South Africa, this story of a middleclass white woman and her black maid (or, in this particular strip, the little […]

Last check, Ted Rall’s efforts to fund a trip to Afghanistan is $3,275 shy of raising the $25k. Only three days left of fundraising. Would be awful to get so close and not make it.

It’s the future I tell you. At least for today.

Three publications have listed the 1997 comic strip April Fools switcheroo as one of the all time best. Klue.com lists their top three as: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, BMW Revolutionary Technology and The Great Comics Switcheroonie. Bob Eckstein, posting on dscriber.com puts the stunt at number two, behind a PC computing article that “noted” legislation […]

A hearty congratulations to Brian Crane, whose feature Pickles turns 20 years old tomorrow. Brian attributes the longevity of Pickles to “dumb luck and clean living, I guess. It’s all been kind of a wonderful mystery to me. I never had a master plan, or anything like that. My only real goal was to do […]

Earlier this week the Daytona Beach News-Journal laid of 10% of their workforce including editorial cartoonist Bruce Beattie. Bruce has been with the paper since 1981 and is currently syndicate through Creators. In 1986 he launched a panel feature called SNAFU which later became Beattie Blvd. The strip ran for 11 years and was a […]