Aaron Johnson’s What the Duck has been renamed to W.T. Duck and has a launch date of September 8. W.T. Duck first began as filler on Aaron’s band’s web site, but quickly gained a following. In December of 2006, he created “Syndication Bingo” to document his attempt to syndicate the strip. Universal signed him up […]
The newly launched Comics Riff blog talks to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau about the state of satire in America today. Is satire’s influence on politicians and the electorate any greater or lesser than, say, when “Doonesbury” launched? I’ve never felt any of us had significant influence. The fear of public ridicule is universal, but I […]
» NPR reviews Willie & Joe collection.» E&P reports that a new “Luann’ comic collection is coming next month and a second Lio collection too.» Last week I reported that Charlie Daniel is celebrating 50 years of cartooning. The Knoxville News Sentinel has another write-up on his career and impact in his community.» Diesel Sweeties […]
Harry Bliss, a frequent New Yorker cartoonist, is releasing a collection of his one-panel cartoons in a book entitled “Death by Laughter.” The book will feature more than a 100 of his cartoons, which according to the Burlington Free Press contains a good number of “not-always-funny themes” such as death.In the Burlington interview he says, […]
The Washington Post has launched a new blog called “Comics Riff” which will be maintained by former Warped cartoonist Michael Cavna. The blog will be a daily critique of the funny pages, as well as interviews with cartoonists, reader polls and live discussions.
The July 21st New Yorker cover is a raising eyebrows and both the Obama and McCain campaigns have called it “tasteless and offensive.” The cover shows a cartoon of presidential candidate Barack Obama in a turban and middle-eastern garb fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife as the American flag burns in the fireplace. The New Yorker’s press […]
The Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler has announced on his blog that he has a new duty each week to draw caricatures for the front covers of the Examiner papers in Washington, Baltimore and San Francisco. Regarding the caricatures, he writes: They’re definitely a departure for me in style and are proving to be […]
Tribune Media Syndicate has responded to questions posted by E&P’s Dave Astor about their online comics service’s apparent closure. A spokesman for the company told Dave that the site was taken down after the company was not able to move the database away from a server that TMS no longer owned. The company is planning […]
The Washington Post has an excellent article on the challenges of free speech, religion and cartooning that is expanding out from the infamous Mohammed cartoons in Denmark citing the recent arrest of Gregorius Nekschot and a case in Britain that caused police to end an ad campaign that featured a German shepherd puppy because dogs […]
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has announced the 12 finalists in their third annual Science Idol: Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest. The public now has to opportunity to vote for the winner.The UCS received hundreds of cartoon entries from artists. A panel of cartoonists (Dave Coverly, Mike Keefe, Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher, Wiley Miller, and […]
Just received word that the second Stay Tooned! magazine is coming together and should be out in about a month. This issue will feature Mike Peters, Chad Carpenter, Tom Bancroft, Ben Towle, Bill Day, Mason Mastroianni and Joe Staton who will also illustrate the cover (see illustration which will be colored by Matt Webb.).
The Washington Post Writers Group has announced that Brian Crane’s Pickles comic strip has surpassed the 500-client mark with the addition of the Shreveport Times which will begin running Pickles on Aug. 4th.Alan English, the Executive Editor at the Times, was also pleased at the news that his is the lucky paper. “Our core audience […]
The Mexican comic book character Memin Pinguin has been around for more than 60 years, but when his book, Memin for President, appeared in a Houston Texas Wal-Mart, at least one patron thought the drawings of the little Cuban boy were a racist caricature and complained to the store. She also enlisted the help of […]
» Last Sunday’s Opus did not run in the Washington Post who opted for substitute. According to columnist Gene Weingarten, the editors felt that it might be insensitive to certain readers. The cartoon depicts Opus, Bill the Cat standing on an electric car mooning posters of Exxon executives, Dick Chenney and an Middle Eastern man. […]
Tribune Media Services has quietly closed down their Comicspage.com service. The homepage now instructs visitors to read their favorite comics over on Universal Press Syndicate’s GoComics.com. They’ve also created Facebook groups pages for all their features. No reason is offered for the abrupt change, but they are offering an email address for readers to sign […]