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 […]

Congrats to Jen Sorenson, creator of Slowpoke comic strip. She’s been named as the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Additionally, she is the first woman to receive the Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a Conscience Award from Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies.The Aronson award honors “journalism that measures […]

Slashfilm and other sites are reporting that the graphic novel, Cowboys & Aliens will be hitting the big screen and that Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde will be the star actors. The movie is set to be released in July 2011.According to IMDB, the plot is based in Silver City, Arizona, where “Apache […]

I almost hesitate to point out how well Hilary Price does humor about pets, because I’d hate to see her abandon her other observational humor. This, you will understand, is not about the amount of influence I think I have, but about the amount of superstition I know I have. Besides, she already knows about […]

Congratulations to Dick Locher who was honored yesterday with the unveiling of a new Dick Tracy statue that will now stand in the Naperville Riverwalk, where Dick has resided for many years.For more information, check out the close up photo of the statue is here, read statements by the Chester Gould family and information about […]

The Discover Channel has announced their specials and series for 2010-2011. They’ve teamed up with Pixar talent for a television event entitled “Reign of Dinosaurs.” Their description is… Avatar meets Jurassic Park as the latest paleontological research meets Hollywood story telling. Discovery Channel teams with the top creative talent from Disney and Pixar to create […]

Editorial cartoon animator Mark Fiore is the recipient of this year’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Mark’s work appears on SFGate.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, Motherjones.com and NPR’s web site. The judges noted, “for his animated cartoons appearing on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle Web site, where his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill […]

This year’s 2010 Will Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Lots of worthy artists and creators. Best Short Story “Because I Love You So Much,” by Nikoline Werdelin, in From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics in the 3rd Millennium (Fantagraphics/Aben maler) “Gentleman John,” by Nathan Greno, in What Is Torch Tiger? (Torch Tiger) “How and […]

Lincoln Peirce’s first of six novelized Big Nate books debuted at #5 on the New York Times best seller list in the children’s category. The books published by HarperCollins and is entitled, “Big Nate: In a Class by Himself”

Greg Evans, the creator of Luann, is launching another play entitled “Wrinkles: The New Old Age Musical.” Greg composed 14 songs for the musical. His first musical, based on his Luann character “Luann: Scenes In A Teen’s Life” has been on a couple of different stage productions and will again this May by the South […]

Brian Anderson’s “Dog Eat Doug” is a quiet little cartoon that regularly provides nice artwork and funny ideas. I suppose it helps if you like dogs and very small children, because it’s clear that he does, and, while he sometimes sends them into fanciful arcs of make-believe, much of the time, he simply chronicles the […]

Today at 3pm EST, the Pulitzer board will announce this year’s winners of the Pulitzer Prize. I’ll be watching the announcements and will post the winners here as soon as they are announced.

(This is a profile I did of Jerry Scott in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY) Jerry Scott didn’t want a partner for “Zits.” He already was writing “Baby Blues” with artist Rick Kirkman as a partner, but that was another matter. Scott and Kirkman were longtime friends and had determined years ago […]