Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, IL officially closed yesterday with a closing ceremony. The museum announced earlier this year that it would be closing its doors due to financial reasons. Gould, who lived in Woodstock for much of his life, started drawing the Dick Tracy comic in 1931 and continued to do it […]

Former The Orange County Register editorial cartoonist Mike Shelton, along with another former O.C. Register employee have launched a new web site for their animated editorial cartoons called politicalbastards.com (or the more mildly titled politicalbleep.com). “Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P. The duo hopes the new site — […]

From an article in the L.A. Times we note that Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoonist and syndicate owner, and Bob Scheibel, a former journalism professor and comic collector, are neighbors – but their views of editorial cartooning are anything but.Scheibel view: Today’s political cartoons are too wishy-washy or wordy. He says newspaper staff cutbacks and a […]

Mel Casson, writer and illustrator for the Redeye comic strip passed away last week at the age of 87 of Alzheimer’s disease.For nearly 20 years, Mel illustrated “Redeye,” a parody strip about a 19th century tribe of Native Americans, for King Features Syndicate. When cartoonist Bill Yates, who wrote the “Redeye” scripts, retired in 1999, […]

Editor and Publisher’s Dave Astor has additional details to yesterday’s news that Creators Syndicate is purchasing Copley News Service. According to the report, Creators has had interest in Copley for many years and that Copley has decided to focus their energies elsewhere – opening up the possibility of selling the syndicate. When asked why CNS […]

Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog will begin appearing in Germany’s Die Zeit weekly newspaper for a 12 week run on their kid’ page. Die Zeit has a circulation of about 500,000 and an estimated readership of 2 million. Jonathan writes on his blog that “editors chose Bleeker because it appealed to both children and […]

» Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate is finally hitting the book shelves. The book is entitled “I Smell a Pop Quiz!: a Big Nate book,” and can be purchased through Lulu press.» Akron Beacon Journal editorial cartoonist Chip Bok jokes that he’s alive because of cartooning.» The New York Times writes about the popular webcomic xkcd […]

The Pittsburg based ToonSeum will open a new exhibit entitled “Just Kidding Around: Children in Cartoons and Comics” on June 7th. The exhibit explores children in comics from cartoons such as Little Orphan Annie, Henry, Family Circus, Rugrats, Dennis the Menace, Dog Eat Doug, Archie, Little Lulu, Nancy, Charlie Brown and many others.Visitors will get […]

Pixar’s “Wall-E” will debut this June along with their latest short animation entitled “Presto Chango.” Animation World Magazine writes that the short is a departure from previous Pixar shorts and describes it more as a slapstick ode to Warner Bros. “Tom and Jerry.” It’s a slapstick ode to Warner Bros. and Tom and Jerry toons, […]

A few new web sites have launched in the last couple of weeks.Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has added a blog to his web site that will feature his sketches, roughs and commentary for his cartoons and animation.The Six Chix cartoonist now have a home on the web. The site offers a collection of Six Chix cartoons […]

Rocky Mountain News sports cartoonist Drew Litton has posted his first sports animation. Last week he posted his first animation ever – a non sports cartoon he created to learn Flash. This new animation is the online version of an Avalanche cartoon that appeared last Friday. Now that I’m getting things to move it’s all […]

Creators Syndicate has announced that they have purchased Copley News Service. The deal goes into effect July 1. Regarding the sale, Creators President Richard S. Newcombe said, “Copley News Service provides a great product and has a base of loyal newspaper and Internet customers. This purchase opens new markets for Creators columnists and cartoonists. By […]

» Peter Parker and Spidey are slated to hit to Broadway in late 2009 or 2010 in a musical directed by Julie Taymor (who won a Tony for her work on “Lion King”) and the music score by Bono and The Edge of U2.» Garfield will by highlighted in Total Licensing Magazine.» Andrews McMeel Universal […]

Kurt Westergaard, the controversial cartoonist drew the now infamous cartoonist of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban was honored last week with the Sappho Award by the Danish Free Press Society. The award, named after the Greek poet Sappho, comes with a $4,200 prize and statue.

Franklin Folger, creator of The Girls has left $250,000 to the Art Academy of Cincinnati to create an endowment to purchase artwork for the academy’s collections according to E&P. Franklin died last November.