Yesterday afternoon The Daily Cartoonist went down. The cause as far as I can determine was a rogue database query that pounded on the server. My hosting company disabled the account to protect other sites hosted on the same server. I’ve not been happy with said hosting company for a while now, so this seemed […]
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is asking his fans to write the editors of alternative newspapers to ask them to bring back some of the comics like This Modern World and Life in Hell that have been dropped lately. Vedder called political cartoonists the “Jon Stewarts of their day” with a long and distinguished history. Vedder […]
Bill Day, who has been at the Memphis Commercial Appeal for the last 10 years has been laid off this afternoon. He will continue his syndicated cartoons through United Media. “It’s been a wonderful job to work for [Otis Standford, his editor]. He gave me complete freedom. It was wonderful. I loved every minute of […]
Another big name will be attending the Self-Syndication seminar hosted by Tundra guys Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg. Daryl Cagle will also be on-hand to answer questions and talk to individuals about the market. Daryl runs one of the biggest cartoon websites at cagle.com and started his own syndicate service in 2001 distributing over 50 […]
Editorial cartoonists are known to cover political conventions and other big events, but Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith has a different beat. He covers NASCAR. He does the normal five editorial cartoons for the Sun, an additional one for USA Today and then does two NASCAR cartoons for the Sun and the other […]
Tony Carrillo’s F Minus has a new collection that is now available in book stores. To commemorate the release, NPR looks at his career thus far and the state of the newspaper industry. Carrillo was an art student at Arizona State University when he started drawing for the student newspaper. At the end of his […]
By now many of you are aware that several former Rocky Mountain News journalists are starting a web-only newspaper called In Denver Times. It’s a subscription only product that will launch May 4th if they can gather 50,000 subscribers by April 23. Ed Stein is one of those involved with this venture. He notes on […]
You might have noticed yesterday that Jim Brozman name was inked into the Dick Tracy comic strip. Mary Elson, Managing Editor at Tribune Media Syndicate, tells me that Jim has been collaborating with Dick Locher on the strip. Mary adds that the two are longtime associates and live in the Chicago area. Jim graduated with […]
Today’s edition is the last edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Hearst paper closed after an unsuccessful attempt to find a buyer. The paper will continue online with a bare-bones staff in a format that has been described as a Huffington Post of mainstream media. While a couple of small papers have made the jump […]
Robert Ariail, who has been the editorial cartoonist for The State (Columbia, SC) since 1984, has announced that he is resigning from the paper after his position was reduced to part-time status. The paper laid off 38 individuals last week and cut pay for others. Robert’s last day will be Thursday. The announcement posted today […]
» Ed Stein, isn’t bringing back his long running local comic Denver Square, but as he puts it, he “couldn?t resist doing a couple of sketches, using the characters, to comment on a couple of local stories”» This Thursday, J.C. Duffy’s The Fusco Brothers will announce whether the faithful canine companion is really a dog […]
Ben Sargent finished out his employment with The Austin American-Statesman last Friday. He announced he was taking a buyout a few weeks ago. He has been with the paper since 1974 and brought home a Pulitzer in 1982 and was a finalist in 2000 and 2001.To commemorate his departure, Ben pulled from the archives seven […]
The Toronto Star has dropped Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy in favor of Aaron Johnson’s new (at least in print) comic W.T. Duck. The editor noted the flood of calls from Get Fuzzy fans, but in the end the decision was made by “canvassing some newsroom comic page readers” and making “a judgment call.” Public Editor […]
Comic Riff blogger Michael Cavna notes that his paper, The Washington Post will cut five comics from their line-up starting March 30. The comics on the chopping blog include: Little Dog Lost, Pooch Cafe, Piranha Club, Zippy the Pinhead and Judge Parker. The comics will remain on their website.While not getting the axe, Michael reports […]
Joe Murray, creator of animated series Rocko’s Modern Life (1993-1996) and Camp Lazlo (2005-2008), announced on his blog that his eBook, Crafting a Cartoon, has been picked up for print publication by Random House. The eBook will be discontinued as a result (although it’s still available as I type this) and the book will come […]