Hector Cant’u and Carlos Castellanos’ Baldo comic strip will feature independent comic book superhero “El Muerto” (The Dead One) during the last week of October and on the first and second day of November – the Day of the Dead holiday for many Latinos. “The Day of the Dead is a special holiday for lots […]

A couple of years ago, I posted a summary of an article that predicted the collapse of the print newspaper within a decade. We’ve had this conversation on this blog since then and the opinions vary. This last summer has been horrific for those in the business. Massive lay-offs, slumping stock values, unpaid debt. For […]

The Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji, IA is holding it’s annual Toon-ed exhibit featuring the cartoons of aspiring college cartoonists from across the United States. All college students (over 18) are invited to participate. The categories for judging include magazine cartoons, greeting cards, comic books, political cartoons, illustrations, manga and anime, comic strips and […]

The Herb Block Foundation that awards the yearly Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning has announced they are increasing the cash prize amount from $10,000 to $15,000 according to E&P. They’ve also announced that this year’s judges will include Garry Trudeau, Jules Feiffer and last year’s winner John Sherffius. Additionally, they’ve increased the number of cartoons […]

» Comic Book Resources looks at the career of Oliver Harrington.» Greeting card cartoonist Mike Scovel was named 2008 Cartoonist of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.» Frazz creator Jef Mallett is profiled in the San Antonio Express News.» Berkeley Breathed is scheduled to be at the Charles M. Schulz museum to talk […]

Chip Bok, who announced last week that he was taking a voluntary buy out from the Akron Beacon Journal and today would be his last day, now tells me that there has been a slight change. He’ll continue on with the paper until November 7 – election day.

With the announcement of Jim Lange’s retirement and Chip Bok’s buy out this week, I’ve compiled a list of editorial cartoonists who have left the print medium in the last three years that this blog has been operating. I did not count those who left a print job for another print job. With the exception […]

Starting this Wednesday, I’ll be starting what I hope to be a weekly feature called the Webcomic Weekly News Roundup where I post that goings on of new comics, books, and news in general about the webcomic industry. If you’ve got a news tip for your own comic or something that has been blogged about, […]

This week Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts, will use his strip to push California’s Proposition 2, a ballot measure that would stop factory farm abuse. MM: Why is Prop 2 important to you, and what can your readers do to help? PM: Because 20 million animals will be directly impacted, suffering less, if this measure […]

Berkeley Breathed will be giving away $10,000 to a dog or cat shelter of a readers choice in conjunction to the Opus ending contest that was announced last week. The contest asks for readers to send in a one sentence entry guessing where Opus will be in his final paradise. The announcement says that clues […]

» MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond will be the “Phone a Friend” for Jim Batts, a fellow caricaturist, who will be competing on the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” on October 23.» The Jamestown Sun (ND) has picked up Chad Carpenter’s self-syndicated Tundra.» Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich will speak at North Georgia College […]

I don’t get many reports of comic page changes outside of the United States, but thanks to Andreas Eriksson of Sweden, we learn that the Norra Västerbotten recently switched to a tabloid format earlier this month and brought in a focus group to determine which comic features should be dropped or picked up. Before the […]

The Oklahoman editorial cartoonist Jim Lange is retiring “early” after 58 years with the paper. His last cartoon runs this Sunday. Yesterday, members of the newspaper staff paid tribute to his career that produced over 17,000 cartoons and illustrations. His retirement wasn’t voluntary. His departure was part of 150 other employees that took buyouts, retired […]

Mike Lynch found a great interview with Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who drew the infamous cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. The three part, sub-titled interview is presented below.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok has taken a buy-out after 22 years with the Akron Ohio paper. This was the third buy-out offer for his paper’s employees and Chip decided that now was the time to try something else.“Everyone knows that the newspaper industry is grim right now. The rust belt is perhaps […]