Stephanie Piro, one of the Six Chix, is lending a hand to help raise money for animals displaced and rescued from the recent bush fire that destroyed over 1.1 million acres and over 2,000 homes in Australia. Six animal shelters were destroyed in the fires. Stephanie, who created a specially designed button featuring a koala […]
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the National Caricaturist Network) has announced details to their 2009 convention to be held in Sandusky OH this November.The confirmed speakers include Sam Viviano, Longtime MAD artist and current art director, Mark Fredrickson, Frequent MAD cover artist, Hermann Mejia MAD caricaturist and Tom Richmond a […]
Hermes Press has announced that it will reprint the complete The Phantom series that has appeared in newspapers since 1936. The first volume is due out in September. As the daily strip ran in a different continuity from the Sunday version, Hermes Press will issue three volumes of dailies each year and one volume of […]
Maurice Sinet, a French cartoonist/satirist, has been acquitted of anti-Semitism. He was charged with the crime after a July article he authored poked fun of Jean Sarkozy, son of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who allegedly converted to Judaism to marry a Jewish heiress. Maurice was fired from the magazine after he refused to apologize after […]
» I have been remised in earlier posts about comic page changes to mention that Mark Buford’s Scary Gary has been picked up in The Toronto Sun, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Sundays). » Betsy Streeter’s cartoons will be appearing in Body + Soul Magazine. Betsy is providing exclusive cartoons poking fun at the never-ending challenges […]
Heart Corp has announced today that it will begin making short term cuts to both union and non-union staff in order shore up the paper that lost $50 million last year. If the company cannot get its spending under control, Hearst said it will put the paper up for sale and if no buyer is […]
» Brian Duffy made news this morning with news that he is considering suing his employer for copyright ownership of his cartoons. The Telegraph Herald has announced that they are picking up his freelance cartoons. » uClick announced that you can now get Garfield Minus Garfield iPhone/iPod app.» Editorial Cartoonist Donna Barstow has been added […]
The Oregonian has announced that it will be dropping 10 comics to cut back on costs. The remaining 23 comics will be printed in color. Of the 23 slots that are now subject to change, Executive Editor Peter Bhatia announced that eight features are safe: Adams’ Apples, Dilbert, Doonesbury, Get Fuzzy, Mother Goose and Grimm, […]
The Blade (Toledo, OH) editorial cartoonist Kirk Walters has started a new weekly comic called Frogtown which debuted in his paper on Sunday. The comic is the latest local comics that he’s done. Previously he also produced Maumee Dearest which has had a 20 year run. Frogtown is described as a “a slice-of-life cartoon about […]
Brian Duffy, recently fired by the Des Moines Register, is considering legal action to retain the rights to his cartoons, which the Register says they will donate to the University of Iowa. Apparently, according to a sketchy report by KCCI-TV, mirrored by E&P, the newspaper considers the cartoons “work for hire,” which would give the […]
» Via Journalista! is news that the New York Times edited political cartoon by Michel Kichna showing Hugo Chavez flipping the bird. Mike Lynch has larger, detailed images.» Phil Hands is featured in a video produced by Wisconsin State Journal.» MariNaomi, author and illustrator of Estrus Comics and Jimmy Gownley, creator of Amelia Rules! will […]
Florida A&M University’s Division of Journalism will host an exhibit entitled “Disappearing Ink” starting Feb. 24 in their Journalism and Graphic Communication Gallery. The exhibit displays original artwork by Bruce Beattie, Daytona Beach News Journal, Ed Gamble, The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), Chan Lowe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), Doug MacGregor, The News-Press (Fort Myers), Andy […]
The L.A. Times has announced that they are picking up Jan Eliot’s Stone Soup and Steve Sicula’s Home and Away as replacements for Better or for Worse and Sally Forth.The Times-News has picked up Dan Thompson’s Rip Haywire as well as writing up a nice profile on Dan.
\Michael Jantze, creator of “The Norm,” will be at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on March 7th to teach a three-hour class on “the past, current and future markets for new media.” Michael take students through the process of converting traditional comics into new media shorts using his “Audio Comics” product.
Over the weekend, people are still pontificating the impact, meaning of Sean Delonas’ editorial cartoon that ran in the New York Post last Wednesday. Here is a round up of some of the stories and recent developments.» The NAACP is urging readers of the NY Post to boycott the paper and are calling on the […]