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Penny Arcade announces new site for independent games

Webcomic powerhouse Penny Arcade has announced that they have partnered with Hothead Games to create a new website called “Greenhouse” that will focus on selling downloadable independent games for PC, Mac, and Linux. The first game to be released will be “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One”, a role playing game featuring Penny […]

College student, president apologize for offensive cartoon

A St. Patrick’s Day cartoon in the Leigh University student newspaper has prompted an apology from the cartoonist, the editorial board, and the university’s president after protests from students. The cartoon (see here) is entitled “Map for a Successful St. Patrick’s Day” and uses references to drunkeness, brawling, a “french fry famine” and a leprechaun […]

Ben Sargent wins Best of Cox award

Ben Sargent, editorial cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman, has won The Best of Cox award for editorial cartooning. The Best of Cox is a journalism award for employees of the Cox newspaper chain that operates in six states.Regarding Ben’s work, the judges said, This cartoonist fires away. We were impressed by his clear, strong voice […]

Mutt & Jeff celebrates 100 years

Mutt & Jeff have just crossed over the centurion mark for a comic strip. The original feature by Bud Fisher included only Mutt and debuted in the San Francisco Chronicle in late 1907. He later added Jeff in March of 1908. According to Wikipedia, Mutt & Jeff may be the first daily comic strip.Over the […]

Nemu*Nemu celebrates 2nd year anniversary with 2nd volume book

Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga are celebrating their second year with their webcomic Nemu*Nemu with the release of their second volume collection of their feature. Nemu*Nemu is Manga style comic with two stuffed toy puppies and two young girls. “A webcomic is much different from syndication because it goes everywhere and anywhere the Internet goes, […]

April Fools jokes around the cartoonosphere

Here’s a list of some of the April Fools jokes I’ve come across being perpetrated on the cartoonosphere:» Ted Dawson has the newly re-release of Calvin and Hobbes – Manga edition» Tom Richmond is hanging up his Mad Blog.» Rich Stevens‘ Diesel Sweeties is going non-pixel.» Francesco Marciuliano is quitting writing for Sally Forth and […]

Rob Tornoe hired as full time cartoonist for Politicker.com

Here’s good news for the editorial cartooning community. Rob Tornoe has been hired as Politicker.com’s full-time editorial cartoonist. Politicker is a combination of political web sites – with ambitions to have a politicker site for each of the 50 states. Rob has been doing their cartoons for a month now.Rob notes that this position is […]

WPWG to launch “Home and Away”

Washington Post Writers Group has posted notice that they will be launching a new feature on June 23rd called Home and Away by Steve Sicula. The featute’s premise is about a husband and wife dealing with the juggling act that is maintaining a home in today’s hectic world. The husband, Sam, telecommutes and mostly manages […]

The Cartoonist’s Attorney, Stu Rees profiled

E&P has written an excellent article on this year’s National Cartoonist Society Silver T-Square recipient, Stu Rees. Stu is an entertainment lawyer who “represent three-quarters of new comic launches” as he is one of the few attorneys that specializes in syndication contracts. He is also a cartoonist himself, and offers an unique perspective of the […]

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