This Sunday, 17 cartoonists will join up their child characters to highlight April as Sexual Violence Awareness and National Child Abuse Prevention Month. On this day, Teresa Dowlatshahi’s Frog Applause will offer some sobering real-life statistics about abuse written in between the guest child characters. Like celebrities lending their names and faces to a good […]

The New York Comic-con is this weekend and there are many syndicated folks working the show. Here’s a run down of individuals and sessions of interest:Lee Nordling is moderating a panel entitled “Comic Strips for the 21st Century.” It is described as: Throughout the 20th Century, the comic strip rode the crest of newspaper readership […]

Just received word from Seattle Times editorial cartoonist Eric Devericks that his position within the newspaper has been spared from the staffing cut backs that were announced last week.

» Stacy Curtis has two new books from the Meghan Rose series that he illustrated.» The “Inside Peanuts: The Life and Art of Charles M. Schulz” exhibit currently running at the Toonseum in Pittsburgh has been extended until May 18th.» Mike Witmer, who does the Pinkerton webcomic on gocomics.com has signed a publishing contract with […]

Executive Datebook Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, David Wiegand, has written a column about how his paper is trying to find a suitable replacement for the vacationing Doonesbury. They’ve been running Darrin Bell’s Candorville and have received mostly positive feedback. The feedback has also revealed other interesting opinions about Lio, which features readers want […]

Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho has been nominated for an Eagle Award for his pencil work on the Mighty Avengers comic book. Also nominated in the “Favourite Comic Artists: Pencils” include Bryan Hitch, Ethan Van Sciver, Frank Quitely and Thomas Boatwright.

9 Chickweed Lane cartoonist Brooke McEldowney will be releasing a new book this month entitled “Pibgorn Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The book, based on his webcomic Pibgorn and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream is 176 pages and the forward was written by Alan Dean Foster. During its original appearance online the cause of […]

RingTales, the cartoon animation start-up of Over the Hedge co-creator Michael Fry has been nominated for a Webby for Best Animated Video of 2008 for its animation of New Yorker cartoons. Those cartoons run on RingTales’ site, The New Yorker and as an iTunes podcast which has generated over 24 million views. In the category […]

Investor’s Business Daily editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won this year’s Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. The announcement comes one week after Michael was awarded this year’s Pulitzer.

I’ve kept a list, but haven’t had time to post what changes have been announced in various newspapers around the country. What is clear is that many papers have opted to run new comics in the vacationing Doonesbury slot.Here’s the run down for the last two weeks:» The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, FL) tried Prickly City […]

The Week, a news and opinion magazine, has named Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich as Editorial Cartoonist of the Year for the second year in a row.

Heroic Publishing has announced that they are selling a weekly newspaper comic strip based on their comic book character “Flare”. The new offering begins May 4 and will be distributed through Hometown Content editorial syndicate. In the vein of such successful American strips as PvP and Liberty Meadows, the FLARE comic strip offers a unique […]

Bizarro creator, Dan Piraro has announced that he’ll be posting his comic panel on his blog each day. Since he’s with King Features, he must post his feature a week behind what newspapers print, but if you’re a Bizarro fan and can’t cough up the $15/year for Daily Ink, bookmark his blog.

As noted on Friday’s News Briefs, Patrick McDonnell has written an environmental theme story line for Mutts during the week of Earth Day. From Alex Hallatt’s web site we learn that she too will have an environmental message for that week. She also mentions that each strip that runs on Mondays has an underlining eco-theme.

Cathy strip provided by Universal Press Syndicate. © Cathy Guisewite Last night’s “30 Rock” featured a Cathy comic strip that was created specific for the show. During the show, Tina Fey is shown looking at the “Cathy” cartoon in the New York Post. Fey is over a candy counter and mimics the character Cathy’s words: […]