» The Denver Post is picking up some of The Rocky Mountain News’ staffers, features and comic strips. If you know which features are going to stay on in the Mile-High city, please post them in the comics.» Comic Book Resources’ Brian Cronin is dedicating this month to profiling Pulitzer Prize winning cartoons. He notes […]
Bill Hinds and Jeff Millar, creators of Tank McNamara, have named Plaxico Burress the “Sports Jerk of the Year 2008” in last Friday’s strip. The New York Giants wide receiver gained notoriety last November when he accidentally shot himself in the leg while in a nightclub. He turned himself in to police the following day […]
The Fox network has announced that it has ordered another two seasons of “The Simpsons” which will take the show into 22 seasons making it the longest running prime-time U.S. television show. Currently it is tied with “Gunsmoke” which ran for 20 years ending in 1975. Interestingly, Law & Order has been running since 1990 […]
Last week, most newspapers ran a 2008 Doonesbury re-run featuring its character Rick Redfern getting laid off from the Washington Post after 33 years at the job. The Washington Post didn’t run that one or more specifically, it started the story-line on Monday and Tuesday, but printed another rerun on Wednesday and Thursday. Alert readers […]
ComicsDC Mike Rhode notes that Andrews McMeel has posted animations of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac and Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater on YouTube. I also notice that they have a Mark Tatulli Lio animation as well. The animation is reportedly done by RingTales who does all the New Yorker and Dilbert animations.UPDATE: Received notice from […]
According to a CNN profile, Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” is being dropped by its flagship paper, LA Weekly, after 22 years: CNN: To the root of animation, cartooning: You’re still doing “Life in Hell,” correct? Groening: Um, yes, but … well, I feel like the floodwaters are rising. CNN: Really? Groening: Yeah, the alternative […]
Earlier this week The San Antonio Express-News laid off 135 of their employees, 75 from their newsroom and their cartoonist John Branch was among those affected. John will remain at the paper until March 20th. He’s been at the paper since 1981, when he landed his “first real job.” Like many of the cartoonists that […]
Ed Stein wraps up 31 years at The Rocky Mountain News today. It’s the only daily paper he’s worked for and the only career he wanted to have. The following is a portion of a conversation I had with him this morning.AG: What stands out in your career?ES: When you first start out in this […]
Drew Litton is perhaps one of the most rarest of cartoonists. His sports editorial cartoons have graced the Rocky Mountain News or 26 years. I had a chance to talk to him last night after he had drawn his last cartoon for the Rocky. AG. How much advance notice did you have that the paper […]
Several individuals have emailed me telling me that the Rocky Mountain News has announced that they will close their doors tomorrow. Editorial cartoonist Ed Stein and sports cartoonist Drew Litton will be out of jobs. E.W. Scripps, which owns the paper was unsuccessful in finding a buyer. The paper had about 230 staffers in their […]
Ted Rall, the President of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has sent a letter to The Des Moines Register’s editor asking her to reconsider their decision to donate Brian Duffy’s editorial cartoons to the University of Iowa. Ted argues that the cartoons represent Brian’s life work and that current industry practice allows the […]
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 […]