Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is teaching a course on Faith and Globalization at Yale University, has stated that he thinks Yale Press made the right decision to not include the infamous Muhammad cartoons in a book about the cartoons. When asked how he would have approached the matter, he replied: It’s certainly […]

Bloom County, Outland and Opus creator Berkeley Breathed will make his comic-con debut at Long Beach Comic Con on October 2. The reclusive cartoonist will introduce his first collection of Bloom County entitled, “The Bloom County Library Volume One.” He will also host a discussion on Bloom County and signing copies of the book. From […]

Last weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo will be memorable for several attendees – more so for many possibly returning home with H1N1, commonly called the swine flu. So far there have been less than a 100 confirmed cases according to Robert Khoo, Penny Arcade, Inc.’s President of Operations and Business Development. Those who attendeded and contracted […]

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has created DC Entertainment Inc. to “fully realize the power and value of the DC Comics brand and characters across all media and platforms” which I’m interpreting as do a better job of getting DC Comics properties into more markets such as films, tv, web etc. Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon doesn’t […]

Animation Film» The New York Times writes about the postapocalyptic Shane Acker movie “9” that is due out today.Comic Books» A Donald Duck comic published in Denmark was recalled after it was discovered that an accompanying fingerprint set contained “dangerous iron-based powders”. Some 40,000 issues were distributed. Parents were warned that it was toxic if […]

Two changes in the comic page line-ups that I’ve come across recently:» The Honolulu Star Bulletin announces that it is replacing Maintaining (which is leaving syndication) with Secret Asian Man, which is leaving syndication. Tak Toyoshima, Secret Asian Man’s creator is self-syndicating his work on a weekly (Sunday) schedule. » The Detroit Free Press is […]

A group of prominent conservative Yale alumni, led by former United Nations John Bolton, is circulating a letter to the editor urging other Yale graduates “to sign the letter and to call on the University to publish ‘The Cartoons that Shook the World’ with the cartoons that shook the world intact,” according to the Yale […]

On Thursday, October 1, 2009, The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will feature Paul Jon to talk about his soon to be debuting comic Fort Knox which launches into syndication on October 5. Paul will give a presentation on what it took to get his Fort Knox feature signed and launched with the Washington […]

Last month it was announced that Scott Stantis would become the editorial cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune, the first cartoonist hired since the death of Jeff MacNelly in 2000. Much thanks to Scott for taking time out to participate in my recent email interview request about his move to the Trib.Alan Gardner: How did this […]

Universal Uclick’s editor John Glynn writes that In the Bleacher’s Steve Moore is celebrating 14 years with U/U. In addition for his strip, Steve has made his mark in Hollywood having been the writing source for animated features such as Open Season, Flushed Away, and a new feature called Alpha and Omega that is due […]

Corey Pandolph has announced that he will be ending his comic, Barkeater Lake on October 31st. Corey cites the drain of producing three other strips (Toby, Robot Satan, Greene with Envy and Elderberries) and a waning interest in the story. He writes: Itâ??s time to end BARKEATER LAKE. I feel very strongly that the strip […]

After a couple of emails and tweets asking about why comics.com was unavailable over the weekend, I contacted United Media to ask why. According to Mary Anne Grimes, the “website host suffered a series of failures that caused intermittent problems throughout the weekend – some users were able to access the site, many could not. […]

A hearty thanks goes out to Aaron Taylor who kept the blog updated last week while I was vacationing in Southern California. I checked in from time to time when I had a spare minute and was pleased to see things humming along without me. Thank you Aaron! We’ll do lunch soon, my treat!

Tom Tomorrow has announced on his blog that his alternative comic This Modern World will be returning to the Village Voice as of yesterday. Last spring, the paper announced it was temporarily dropping all comics to cut money for at least one quarter, but extended the suspension.From his blog: I really didnâ??t expect this, and […]

One scholar suggests that perhaps money, not fear, was the reason Yale University Press decided not to publish the Danish cartoons in the book The Cartoons That Shook the World.Can you imagine a better way to set the stage for a major Alwaleed gift? Hosting for a semester the very person who structured the Harvard […]