Ted Rall, who worked as the Editor of Acquisitions and Development at United Media has been laid off last Thursday. Ted tells me that eight other individuals were also let go and that his responsibilities would probably be reassigned to other people. Ted was brought in for the position back in 2006. During his term […]

The Winners of this year’s Stumptown Awards were announced over the weekend. The winners are:Outstanding Art: Spike – Templar, Arizona Outstanding Debut: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Design: Jeffrey Ellis – Historyonics Outstanding D.I.Y.: E. Stackhouse & N. Shahan – Brazilianoir Outstanding Small Press: George Leon – Luchadores in Space Outstanding Writing: Spike […]

If you haven’t spent an afternoon flipping through the XKCD archives, you haven’t truly lived. Okay, that’s kind of dramatic, but only a little. It has just been announced that XKCD artist Randall Munroe will be publishing his first book of compiled work. Randall Munroe is a webcomic pioneer and remains one of the most […]

Steve Breen has been honored this year with his second Pulitzer Prize. The San Diego Union Tribune editorial cartoonist took the prize in 1998 while at the Asbury Park Press. He has been with the Union Tribune since 2001. Regarding this year’s submissions, the judges wrote that this award is for “his agile use of […]

With the announcement that Steve Breen being named as the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, so too are named the other finalists. This year’s finalists also include Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press and Matt Wuerker of Politico. This is the third time Mike has been been a finalist. The judges note that […]

Benita Epstein is the latest cartoonist to join the Six Chix comic strip, replacing Kathryn LeMieux, who is leaving the feature to pursue other interests. Benita’s first strip was in yesterday’s paper and future daily work will be featured on Fridays (Sundays are rotated amongst the six women).“Kathryn LeMieux’s contribution to Six Chix over the […]

The Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced at 3 p.m. EST. I will be posting the announcements as they are made public. Meet back here to discuss the winner.

This year’s nominees for the Stumptown Trophy Awards has been released. The winners will be announced at this year’s The Stumptown Comics Fest 2009 in Portland OR this weekend. This is the festival’s 5th year.Nominees for Outstanding Artmiriam libicki TABLE 51 – jobnik!, fierce ease jason janicki TABLE 121 – Wayfarer terrytoledo – Sid Love […]

Despite past animosity on this site, there is sort of a big deal going on at PvP with guest artist Karl Kerschl doing today’s strip. I don’t care what side of the print/webcomics fence you’re on, this strip is amazing.If this post kicks off any kind of conversation it should be about how mainstream, print […]

Jim Lange, who spent 58 years on the editorial page of The Oklahoman died last night. He was 82. He retired last fall. Via the Tulsa World: “Jim Lange was not only one of the greatest political cartoonists Oklahoma ever produced, he was one of the most outstanding cartoonists in the history of American journalism,” […]

ComicsGo check out The Daily Cross Hatch’s full audio and video of a recent discussion featuring notables Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, and Gary Groth.Editorial Cartooning» Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger, will be one of three artists featured at the Winston County Library on Saturday.Comic Strips» Over on Tall Tales Radio, Mark Tatulli, one […]

Dean Koontz, the suspense-thriller best-selling author has produced his first graphic novel. The graphic novel is entitled, “In Odd We Trust” and is about a young man named Odd Thomas who has a secret – he can see dead people. Artist Queenie Chan provides the manga art style.From Examiner.com: The pacing of the novel is […]

» A Cincinnati Enquirer reader emailed me to tell me that their paper cut their Sunday comics to four pages. They’ve squished six comics onto the front page of the comic section: Zits, Peanuts, For Better or For Worse, Baby Blues, Blondie and Hi and Lois.» Michael Cavna blogs that the Washington Post has reinstated […]

King Features is set to launch their second Earth Day comic event next Wednesday on Comics Kingdom. On that day 37 of their creators will use their comics to advance an environmental theme. Each comic will attempt to create awareness for the environment while maintaining each strip’s character and spirit. For example, in Mother Goose […]

Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac is the latest comic strip to be brought to life courtesy of Ringtales and Michael Jantze’s studio (Michael’s studio did the actual animation). According to Richard’s blog, the voice talent for the alice character was provided by Colette Jantze. One of the spoilers for most of the comic strip to […]