I reported Steve Breen took home the Fischetti award. The noise level of the announcement was muted considerably by the Pulitzer announcement the day before. I’m glad to see Michael Cavna was able to interview Steve. Michael talks to Matt Wuerker who was this year’s recipient of the Herblock award .

I could probably feature “Cul de Sac” three times a week, but today’s is particularly special: Alice brings up a topic, Petey responds to it and Alice actually responds to what he said instead of simply continuing her eternal, external monologue. It is a rarity to be remarked upon.(With some Googling, I could probably find […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore has told ComputerWorld that he has resubmitted his rejected iPhone app to Apple for reconsideration. Mark’s app was rejected last December. Since winning the Pulitzer last week and the rejection hit the blogosphere, Apple invited him to resubmit. According to ComputerWorld, a customer wrote to Steve Jobs himself pleading the […]

Twice this week, spammer were able to exploit the site to inject code into the blog. I’m still trying to ascertain the full scope of what they were able to do. At the moment, it appears limited to inserting code into a file that is read by search engines and sends search engine traffic to […]

(This is a profile of “Mutts” cartoonist Patrick McDonnell that I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) To begin with, the rotary dial telephone doesn’t really work.But it’s not entirely out of place, there in the background of the picture,along with the analog clock. The candle, admittedly, is a bit of […]

I’m not going to champion cartoons that you have to be 60 years old to get, except when they crack me up, as was the case with “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” this morning. Anyway, I’m pretty sure John Hambrock isn’t old enough to have many memories of “Beat the Clock.”Although, if he is […]

Mark Fiore is worthy of a Pulitzer, but last December Apple wouldn’t allow Mark’s iPhone app into the App Store because it “contains content that ridicules public figures.” According to By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries’ blog on Wall Street Journal, Apple has asked Mark to resubmit his app. But a representative from Apple called the cartoonist Thursday […]

Looks to me like Heart of the City is about to feature a Mrs. Angelini story. I don’t remember the last time we had one of these, but they’re always worthwhile, as Heart takes a break from her adventures with Dean and her housekeeper provides a flashback story about earlier days.I don’t get to read […]

Mark Fiore wasn’t the only cartoonist that took home a Pulitzer Prize this week. Matt Richtel, who pens the Rudy Park comic strip under the name Theron Heir took home a Pulitzer Prize this week for the New York Times for a series of articles on distracted driving. From the NY Times: The series generated […]

 Dave Whamond’s Reality Check is probably up to six weeks of hibernation by now; The panel turned 15 at the beginning of the month. And sometime next month, he’ll find out if he won the National Cartoonist Society’s award for Best Gag Cartoon.None of which is why I chose this panel today. It just cracked […]

In typical Simpson fashion.

Nathan Cooper’s In the Sticks is going political. As of Monday, the golf themed strip edges right politically.From the press release: Beginning with the April 12 strip, In the Sticks will dispatch a daily dose of humor from the Blooming Dogleg Country Club colored by a conservative political perspective. The first politically themed strips, as […]

Arlo & Janis is one of the rare exceptions to the complaint that newspapers are killing themselves by targeting all their cartoons to older readers. Jimmy Johnson is actually a couple of years — two or three — younger than I am, and the strip gets better the closer we come to retirement. Which puts […]

Carl Moore, creator of State of the Union, has decided to end his strip on May 1. He tells me that he gave the strip five years to catch on, but in the end it was not generating the revenue to justify the time to create it.

Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen of the The San Diego Union-Tribune has been named the winner of the 2010 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition. This annual competition, created by Columbia College Chicago in 1980, is in honor of the legendary editorial political cartoonist John Fischetti.Breen has been the editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune since […]