An 2004 Wizard of Id made its way around the Internet this year with an altered punch-line aimed to insinuate that unintelligent people vote Democratic. The joke is set up by Rodney, the cowardly knight, asking if voters shouldn’t be required to take an intelligence test to vote. Here is the altered comic:After receiving a […]

Godfrey Amon Mwampembwa (goes by the name Gado), a Kenyan-based cartoonist heading to the U.N.’s Cartooning for Peace exhibit in Wellington, New Zealand, was not able to attend the exhibit, that included his own work, after Kenyan workers declared an impromptu national holiday after Barack Obama was named the winner of the U.S. presidential election. […]

According to an article on Mint, comic strip characters have the recognition of celebrities at a fraction of the cost when it comes to businesses using them to build brand recognition and advertising campaigns. Due to an economic downturn worldwide, using comic strip characters is a growing trend because in addition to the cost, the […]

With so much gloom and doom in the industry, I couldn’t help highlight a heartwarming story that was reported in EastbayRI.com about cartoonist Steve Brosnihan that has been drawing and teaching cartooning to sick children twice a week at his local hospital since 1991. From the article: Steve visits with six or seven patients every […]

Jimmy Margulies, editorial cartoonist for The New Jersey Record, has written the following faux news article to parody the senseless firings of editorial cartoonists. New York ( November 12 ) Harper’s Weekly has eliminated the position of Thomas Nast, famed editorial cartoonist, noted for his pursuit of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall as well as […]

We’ve discussed this issue before: how will a largely liberal editorial cartoonist community deal with a president that many were rooting for? Pat Oliphant, in an article in the Kansas City Star, admits that he likes Obama. In the article he states, “I’m now trying to deal with the dilemma of liking the new guy. […]

Atlanta Constitution Journal editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich has been awarded the Brooke Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement by The Dunwoody Friends of the Library in Dunwoody GA. The award is given to authors who are residents of Georgia. Mike has two book collections of his cartoons: “Lotsa Luckovich” and “Four More Wars.” The award was […]

The Kansas City Star announced that is laying off 50 of its employees, one of which is their editorial cartoonist Lee Judge who has been at the paper for 27 years. Lee, who found out yesterday, tells me that he is still processing the news and working through the system of Human Resources and hasn’t […]

Most of the comic changes listed below have been reported before, but here we go:» The Kennebec Journal picked up Non Sequitur to replace Opus on Sundays. They’ve included an interview with creator Wiley Miller in the announcement.» Candorville and Secret Asian Man are in trial mode at the Sacramento Bee.» The Lawrence Journal-World replaced […]

I just received an email from Steve Greenberg telling me that his job with the Ventura County Star will be eliminated as of Nov. 30. Since 2002, Steve has been with the paper doing editorial graphics and editorial cartoons as a secondary position. He tells me as the single artist, he thought his position was […]

Norm Feuti, creator of Retail, has announced that he is launching his strip Gill as a webcomic beginning today. Gill is a comic strip that takes a humorous look at the life of an 8-year-old boy who lives under less than ideal circumstances. Gill is overweight. His parents are divorced. His mother struggles to maintain […]

Editorial Cartoonist for The Economist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher will be an Artist-in-Residence at Duke University’s Sanford Institute for Public Policy. During his time on campus, from November 10-14, he will be creating a clay sculpture to commemorate the 2008 Presidential campaign. The Sanford Institute will also be holding a forum titled “Laughing at Power: Satire […]

Smart Bomb Interactive has announced that they are releasing a new video game entitled Snoopy Flying Ace the first months of 2010. The video game is described as having, “action, adventure, romance, cow-tipping, and other exercises in heroism too numerous to name.”You can see a video preview of the game at their website.

The Keith Knight cartoon that caused a ruckus in The Montclair State University (NJ) campus paper over the use of the “n-word” has caused another stir in the The Arizona Daily Wildcat (Tuscan, AZ). Lauren LePage, the editor-in-chief told angry protestors that the cartoon was the result of a miscommunication between herself and the managing […]

Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells’ webcomic Skin Horse has joined the GoComics lineup this week. Skin Horse has been running daily since January and is “about the staff of Project Skin Horse, a secret government organization dedicated to the protection of Americaâ??s nonhuman citizens: robots, beast-men, zombies, and other neglected products of mad […]