The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), Syracuse University Library has been awarded a grant of $79,440 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to support the arrangement and description of the library’s 134 unprocessed collections of original cartoon art. The funds will help support a full-time project archivist for a period of two years. […]

Conservative editorial cartoonist Chip Bok will be teaming up with liberal columnist and White House correspondent Helen Thomas to produce a children’s book entitled “The Great White House Breakout” due out in August. The story follows a female president’s son who is fed up with constant Secret Service surveillance and leaves the White House with […]

Time magazine is featuring two Nicaraguan editorial cartoonist Pedro X. Molina and Manuel Guillen and Manuel Guillen and their struggles with a Sandanista government that is intensifying its crackdown on the independent press. After receiving death threats and text messages threatening to crucify his daughter, Manuel moved his family to Miami where he was approached […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists have made a few last minute changes to their programming for their upcoming convention at the end of the month. Due to scheduling conflict, Henry Cisneros, the former San Antonio mayor and Clinton administration official who was to keynote the closing banquet, is being replaced by author, historian Douglas […]

Next week on June 19, Jim Davis will celebrate 30 years doing the Garfield comic strip. His syndicate, Universal Press has released a Q & A about the strip: Q: You’ve been drawing Garfield for 30 years now. Looking back, what was the most exciting event that happened during your career with regards to the […]

After announcing earlier this week that the Orange County Register was dropping Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, the editors have been “persuaded” to return the two features. Immediately.They write, Late last year, possibly in a moment of holiday giddiness or Santa envy or irresponsible eggnog consumption, Register editors thought to ask Register readers what […]

Here are four changes that caught my eye this week. I suspect next week will have a lot more as Doonesbury returns.» The San Diego Union-Tribune has a dilemma now that Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury is coming off sabbatical next week – which feature should they cut. According to E&P, the three that might be cut […]

» Next week’s Rhymes with Orange will be written and drawn by guest cartoonist Suzy Becker whilst Hilary Price is on vacation.» The man who was fired for posting Dilbert cartoon to the bulletin board at work has been hired with the help of Dilbert creator Scott Adams and his blog readers.» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial […]

Tom the Dancing Bug, the weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling, won the 2008 Best Cartoon Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) at the 13th annual AltWeekly Awards luncheon in Philadelphia on June 7.This is Tom the Dancing Bug’s fourth win of the AAN Best Cartoon Award (it also won in 2002, 2003 […]

James Kemsley, who drew the Ginger Meggs comic for 23 years before passing last December, has been posthumously awarded Order of Australia Medal. The Daily Telegraph notes that the honor was just not for his work as a cartoonist, but also “for his role as a local councillor and for his other passion, the Bradman […]

Kelly Ferguson’s webocomic panel Basketcase has been picked up by his Alma Mater’s paper, the Mustang Daily. Perhaps more impressive is Kelly’s tenacity produce his strip after a construction accident left him a wheelchair with limited use of his hands. “I used to work construction to help pay for tuition and books, and during the […]

Dawn Douglass, a regular here on The Daily Cartoonist operates the Wet Ink forum and recently interviewed Lee Salem, President of Universal Press Syndicate, about the process of getting syndicated, what gets syndicated and how the syndicates are dealing with changes in the market.A sampling of questions and answers: 10. Are you concerned about the […]

Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk’s book, “Lisa’s Story,” has been honored with several awards. The book, which is a compilation of cartoons involving the story-line of Lisa’s cancer, was awarded a silver medal from the Nautilus Book Awards in the Aging/Death & Dying category; it was a finalist in the Popular Culture category of ForeWord […]

A Jordanian court is holding an in-absentia trial on 10 Danish editors and one cartoonists who published the Mohammed cartoons under a 2006 Jordanian law called the Jordanian Justice Act that allows Jordanian officials “to prosecute crimes committed outside the country if it affected the people of Jordan by electronic means.” The public prosecutors will […]

The San Francisco based Cartoon Art Museum will open an exhibit starting June 28 featuring “a visual history of one of the most popular comic book publishers of all time: Harvey Comics.” Harvey Comics produced many memorable cartoon characters such as Casper The Friendly Ghost, Wendy The Good Little Witch, Richie Rich, The Poor Little […]