I received an email last night saying that the House of Representatives was set to pass the Orphan Works Act. Not able to corroborate the announcement (that cited the Illustrators’ Partnership’s “DC Sources”) with the docket on the House of Reps web site, I opted not to post the news. The bill did not go […]

» Mike Cavna interviews Ted Rall.» Express Night Out interviews Tom Tomorrow.» Ray Billingsley’s Curtis comic is now 20 years old.» Kevin Kallaugher will be at the Newseum on October 25th.» Rhymes with Orange creator Hilary Price will be at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum on October 23rd.» The Swann Foundation is now accepting […]

» The ToonSeum in Pittsburg PA will exhibit the art of Mother Goose and Grimm creator and editorial cartoonist Mike Peters. The exhibit begins October 17 and runs through January 4. » The ToonSeum is also holding a panel discussion on October 18 featuring Mike Peters, Ann Telnaes and Rob Rogers on the topic of […]

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: […]