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Rob Harrell to work on Adam@Home

Universal Press Syndicate has announced that former Big Top cartoonist Rob Harrell is working on Brian Basset’s Adam@Home as the artist and production assistant. You’ll notice, Rob’s name inked into the strip starting today. Brian brought Rob into the strip to allow more time for his other comic strip, Red & Rover.“We’re excited that a […]

Livin’ Large: Life According To Garfield

Jim Davis and Paws Inc. have debuted yet another Garfield spin off cartoon.  The weekly cartoon, entitled Life According To Garfield features the famed fat feline dispensing quick one liners in a single panel format.  Don’t we all wish we could have the marketing and saturation the cranky fat cat enjoys.

Pat Bagley wins 2009 Herblock Prize

Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune has been selected the winner of the 2009 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.The prize is awarded each year by the Foundation for “distinguished examples of original editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous standard set by Herblock .” Bagley will receive the Prize April 2 in a ceremony at […]

Andrew Feinstein producing animation shorts for Fox Sports

Girls and Sports co-creator Andrew Feinstein is involved in a CGI project for Fox Sports’ NASCAR broadcast this season. The animation entitled “The Adventures of Digger and Friends,” first appeared last Sunday before the Daytona 500 and another cartoon will air before the Auto Club 500 this Sunday. Andrew is the producer, writer and executive […]

New York Post issues qualified apology for chimp cartoon

Today’s issue of the New York Post contains an editorial with an apology for Wednesday’s cartoon depicting police shooting a monkey that many inferred as a racial slur against President Obama, but the apology’s author made it clear they were issuing the apology to everyone but those who have had “differences with The Post in […]

Delanos’ Chimp cartoon goes viral

We’re a tightly connected world. Sean Delano’s cartoon that was published Wednesday was echoed throughout many “spheres” (blogosphere, twittersphere, etc.)A Google News search results in over a thousand stories published on the cartoon, a Google Blog Search results in over 3,000 blog posts on the topic. It’s a bit harder to get a hard number […]

Argyle Sweater now available on iPhone

uClick continues to roll comics out to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Today they have announced that Scott Hilburn’s popular comic panel Argyle Sweater is now available on the iTunes App store. In total three Argyle Sweater apps available. Each have approximately 100 or so cartoons and cost $.99.

Ben Sargent takes buyout at American Statesman

Ben Sargent, who has the editorial cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman for the last 35 years has opted to take what he described as a “pretty generous buyout.” His last day with the paper will by March 13th. His wife, who is the paper’s longtime TV critic, is also taking a buyout. Ben says that […]

Harvey award ballots out; Scott Kurtz to MC

The Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con are proud to present the official Nomination Ballot for this year’s Harvey Awards. Named in honor of the late Harvey Kurtzman, one of the industry’s most innovative talents, the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. Ballots can be downloaded from […]

Delonas cartoon proves racially questionable

A Sean Delonas editorial cartoon that ran in the New York Post is raising some questions about his intent and whether it could be viewed as racist. The cartoon was published yesterday and depicts two police officers standing over a chimpanzee shot dead by one of the officers. One police man says, “They’ll have to […]

Guy Gilchrist closes academy; moves to Nashville

Nancy co-cartoonist Guy Gilchrist has announced that he’s closing his private art school, Guy Gilchrist’s Cartoonist’s Academy. He has funded and run the academy for the last five years, but with waning enrollment due to the recession and a growing interest in his songwriting by big artists and producers in Nashville, he simply says, “it’s […]

News Briefs for February 17, 2009

» After 20 years, The Simpson’s has a new intro. I’m glad to see the inclusion of more characters, but I still prefer the classic intro.» uClick (the tech company behind Universal Press Syndicate) is the number #1 mobile comic distributed for iPhone and iPod Touch. uClick CEO was on CNNMoney touting his iPhone funny […]

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