Paul Gilligan, creator of Pooch Cafe has mentioned that the 3000th Pooch Cafe comic ran last Thursday. The feature was first launched in 2000 with Copley News Syndicate but then moved to Universal in 2000. You can see the very first strip on his blog.
Syndicated editorial cartoonist Matt Bors launches a bi-weekly comic for the ACLU today. The feature is part of the ACLU’s StandUp campaign “that educates younger audiences about today’s pressing civil liberties issues.” “Matt’s cartoons are often about civil liberties violations and other injustices,” said Anthony Romero, ACLU executive director. “We’re excited to have someone as […]
Mike Rhode is reporting on his blog that Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson has been nominated for a NCS division award in the category of best Newspaper Comic Strip.Congratulations Richard!
Gordon Campbell, who was laid off last week from his editorial cartooning gig with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, will now be seen on Cagle.com. Gordon will continue to freelance for his paper.To Daryl Cagle he wrote about his dismissal: (See the March 18 entry) And the year started out so promising, too! For over […]
» Steve Greenberg, editorial cartoonist for the Ventura County Star, will be the guest speaker at the Congregation B’nai Emet’s Shabbat service next Friday in Simi Valley, CA.» Jerry Craft, creator of Mama’s Boyz will teach a comic book course in April and May at Middle School University in Connecticut.
Mike Lynch is reporting that DBR Media is closing it’s doors. DBR is a smaller syndicate that distributes a few comics and editorial cartoons. Cartoonists associated with DBR include: Guy Gilchrist, Randy Glasbergen and editorial cartoonist Ed Hall.From an email sent to DBR contributers, executives wrote: “As you know, DBR Media has been experiencing very […]
The Daily Universe, the campus newspaper of Brigham Young University, pulled Scott Adam’s Hay-Soos series and offers this explanation: Some recent letters to the editor have decried The Daily Universe’s decision to not print recent Dilbert cartoons because of inappropriate references to Jesus Christ. To be upfront about the issue, we make no apologies for […]
Mike Rhode has an excellent write up after attending the award ceremony honoring John Sherffius as this year’s Herblock Award winner. His introduction noted that his portfolio was overwhelmingly critical of the Bush administration and when John spoke, he explained why. “I am angry…” at the Bush administration for a litany of failures and malfeasance […]
Daryl Cagle coined the phrase Yahtzee! when speaking of a number of editorial cartoonists using the same metaphor in their cartoons. He’s posted three different Yahtzees relating to recent news: The Olympic logo used as wheels of tanks; Pills coming out of the faucet; and a cuban cigar labeled “Castro” being nearly burned up.
Bitstrips launched earlier this month as the latest new social web social 2.0 social web application to make webcomics easy. Did I mention that it was social? I was curious about the site both from a technical perspective and how it would treat comics. It was a big hit at this year’s South by South […]
Last January, I reported that My Cage creators Ed Power and Melissa Dejesu were running a writing and fan art contest for their feature. They have announced the winners, as well as created a new blog for their feature.Winners of each contest will be featured in the strip. They’ve posted the drawings of the winners […]
With the demise of the Cincinnati Post, Matt Tauber has gone through the microfilm archives and pulled out some of Bill Watterson’s editorial cartoons. So far he’s posted four of his cartoons: see first, second, third (this is a well known, circulated cartoon) and finally a fourth one as well.
Dark Horse Comics will release a “comprehensive” collection of Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles. The new volume will contain all comics of the first four collections that are now out of print. “Folks have been clamoring for this collection ever since my books went out of print,” says Knight “The fact that one of the […]
Darrin Bell’s Candorville was pulled from the Washington Post two weeks ago as well as the Detroit Free Press. The week long story-line involved character Lemont Brown interviewing the Secret Service why security for Barack Obama appeared to be lacking. According to one RACs reader who asked the Free Press Special Features and Syndicates Editor […]
Two upcoming episodes of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks will not be viewed in the U.S. because the Cartoon network pulled them because “they savage another cable network, BET.” BET CEO Debra Lee is depicted in Sunday’s episode as Debra Lee-vil, a Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network “that would […]