Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith was interviewed by the Hartford Courant about the online business side of his comic strip. According to the article, the sales of Zippy memorabilia and accessories on zippythepinhead.com has grown from one third to half of his income. The article also talks about some of the products and services […]

As announced earlier, Chip Bok, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Mike Peters, Mike Luchovich, Walt Handlesman, Stephan Pastis, and Tom Richmond are visiting wounded troops in Washington D.C. and Germany. Stars and Stripes has a write up of their visit to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.The trip is sponsored by The National Cartoonists Society […]

Russian editorial cartoonist Boris Yefimov has passed away at the age of 108. He lived to see the fall of the Tsar, the Russian revolution, two world wars, and the cold war. According to the Telegraph’s obituary, he met or knew most of the prominent revolutionaries including Lenin. During the cold war he used to […]

The Washington Post’s Comics Riff blog has announced a short-form writing contest to pay tribute to Richard Thompson’s Cul De Sac’s first anniversary in syndication. Richard will judge the contest and the winner will receive an autographed Cul De Sac collection that was released last month.

Ben Gordon, a webcomicker who created Scratchin Post and Li’l Nyet, has dug into the economic model claims used in the best selling book “How to Make Webcomics.” Ben believes the oft boasted “10% Rule” (the number of webcomic fans who will purchase merchandise that sustains a webcomic) is questionable and has spent a month […]

Politico editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker has helped produce a flash game where you can control Republican Vice President Nominee Sarah Palin shoot moose, flying pigs with lipstick, MIG jets as well as rockets from the Russian homeland.Enjoy! Post your high score in the comments.

The Orphan Works Act of 2008 was delivered to a chaotic House of Representatives yesterday and was quickly “lost” in the House’s attempt to pass a $700 billion Wall Street bailout. According to Wired.com, lobbyists pushing for the bill concede that the House will not be able to take up the bill until after the […]

Here is the latest changes:The Post Independent (CO) are slashing their comics. They didn’t mention which ones but did mention specifically that this Sunday comics the features dropped from 13 to six. They cite cost cutting as a necessity.The Appeal Democrat (CA) is polling their readers. They’ll be replacing For Better or For Worse with […]

Syndicated editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has issued a retraction to an earlier announcement that he was going to be a regular contributor to Free Inquiry magazine. The relationship between Matt and the magazine is still uncertain at this point.He writes:“I’m writing to perform the embarrassing act of retracting my press release announcing that I will […]

» As reported earlier, Pooch Cafe creator Paul Gilligan created a plush toy version of main character Poncho to send around the world to fans who will take a picture of the stuffed animal in a notable locale and then send it on to the next fan. He’s already posted the first pics.» Dallas Morning […]

Jonathan Mahood, who’s gocomics.com web comic Bleeker the rechargeable dog, is one stop closer to seeing his comic creation on television. Radical Sheep Productions, who optioned his strip back in 2007 for television has made a deal with TVO to develop an animated comedic series for children. Script writing and animation design is already underway […]

Rob Cabrera, creator of Silo Roberts that was syndicated by United Media for two years before he ended the strip to focus on his graduate studies, has started a new comic strip inspired by this year’s presidential campaign. The new strip entitled Super Tuesday runs on his blog “Super Tuesday- the Comic Strip.”He tell me: […]

Peter Dunlap-Shohl, the editorial cartoonist with The Anchorage Daily New for the last 25 years, has been told his position is being eliminated and he’s accepted a buyout offer. This will be his last week with the paper. After this week, he plans on building a web site and doing freelance cartoons for the paper […]

Good morning Jim. Hope today isn’t too odd not having to go into the office and work through another editorial cartoon. You can turn off the wonks and talking heads and enjoy the small, simple pleasure of the feeling the Strathmore paper as you brush away the eraser bits or watching ink flow over pencil […]

Wichita Eagle editorial cartoonist Richard Crowson has been laid off from his newspaper as part of the McClatchy-wide staff reduction effort. The paper has dropped its workforce by 2% this year already. The parent company, McClatchy announced earlier that it was trimming 10 percent, or 1,150 full-time employees from its payroll.Richard told the Wichita Business […]