Time Magazine has posted their top 10 editorial cartoons for the year. Gary Varvel of the The Indianapolis Star took two of the slots. Heng Kim Song of Singapore and Matthew Diffee, a frequent New Yorker cartoonist, were two non-American-newspaper staff cartoonists to be so honored. Other cartoonists named in this years top 10 include: […]

I’m really enjoying getting a glimpse into the syndicate world through Universal Press’ new “From the Editors” blog. Today we learn a bit of background information on today’s Prickly City by Scott Stantis who drew only the first 40% of his cartoon to draw attention to the “impact of cuts being made in American businesses.” […]

Back in November there was an email exchange between Mike Rhode and I and then with Bob Harvey and myself over a recent 9 Chickweed Lane sequence that intimated a sexual encounter between two characters – more specifically the loss of virginity of Amos and Edda. Unable to get a hold of Brooke McEldowney for […]

United Media is launching a new contemporary action adventure comic strip on January 5, 2009 by Dan Thompson. The new feature is entitled Rip Haywire who is a soldier of fortune cast as a comic version of Indiana Jones, James Bond and Jason Bourne. Along for the ride in his adventures are his cowardly dog, […]

Brian Duffy, who was laid off from the Des Moines Register last week, took up an offer from a publisher of an alt-weekly paper to do a full page cartoon without restrictions according to politicker.com cartoonist Rob Tornoe.The cartoon appeared in today’s CityView and depicts Brian walking into the sunset thinking “Sunset, no a new […]

» The Pulitzer Prize board has opened up the requirements to allow internet-only media to be considered for the prize.» uClick hopes to roll out hundreds of comics for the iPhone.» Bob Staake’s cover for Time magazine has been recognized as the best cover of 2008.» ABC is going to broadcast a Charlie Brown Christmas […]

With the news that Tribune Co. has filed for chapter 11 to protect itself from creditors while it restructures its debt, Mary Elson, Tribune Media Syndicate managing editor, has sent an email to its creators to reassure them that TMS is not going out of business and will operate business as usual. An excerpt from […]

The Seattle Times reports that due to economic and revenue conditions it’s reducing the number of sections it prints from four to three on various days of the week. As a result they are discontinuing Lio, Candorville and On a Claire Day.In announcements earlier in the month (and the end of November): The Journal Times […]

An Australian judge has ruled that an internet animation depicting “The Simpsons” cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography and has declared a Sydney man guilty for having it on his computer. The defense argued that the cartoons were not real children no even realistic representations of humans, but the judge found that […]

News broke yesterday that the Tribune Company, owner of eight major dailies, 23 television stations, baseball team and Tribune Media Syndicate, filed for chapter 11 to protect it from creditors. The company owes $13 billion and has only $7.6 billion in assets. It hopes to sell it’s baseball franchise and Wrigley Field and other assets […]

Mort and Greg Walker talk about the history of the International Museum of Cartoon Art, the inception, growth, and many triumphs and struggles over the years in an interview with Comicologytv. Earlier this year, Mort announced that he was donating the cartoon collection to the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library.

© Steve BreenA recent cartoon depicting California’s teachers unions as pirates by Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune, got him uninvited to speak to students at Sunset View Elementary. Hot Air blog writer, Ed Morrissey questions what that teaches the students who were expecting to hear from Breen about his job as an editorial […]

Former Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy was escorted out of the newspaper’s building after learning that his job was being eliminated in a cost cutting (slashing?) move by the paper’s parent company Gannett. He was not allowed to return to his office to collect his personal belongings, he says in an interview with […]

Ted Rall, this year’s president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, has written a bullish account of why he thinks that most of those in the editorial cartooning business will survive and that the art form will survive. Just as no two cartooning careers have ever been the same, each of us must find […]